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did you read his book, 'Beyond the Hoax'? That really aggravated me. This whole schtick about the humanities misunderstanding the sciences that only ended up showing his own misunderstanding of the humanities.
I'm all in favour of giving bullshitters a good flogging, but Sokal just comes across as a rather misinformed critic of a discipline he doesn't know very much about. C.P. Snow's book 'The Two Cultures' is a great account of the divide between the sciences and the humanities that allow those that Sokal criticises to flourish, as well as people like Sokal himself.
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