The Truth about the Literature on Science
Sean Draine (seandr@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 09:00:51 -0800
To be honest, I'm going solely on Geraldo's quote and comments made by
several of my undergraduate literature professors (about 10 years ago).
Also, someone on this list (was it you, Matt?) posted a link to a hoax
publication by a Physicist that seemed to play into the lit crowd's
presumption that their theories are relevant to science. Someone must be
buying this stuff or that paper wouldn't have been written or published.
-Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Kozusko [mailto:mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu]
Sent: Saturday, December 12, 1998 9:40 AM
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
Subject: The truth about Science
Sean:
> People like our dear Geraldo readily dismiss scientific progress, yet they
> take airplanes to their silly conferences, they read their dull journals
by
> electric light, and they wash their hands after a crap for fear of
spreading
> disease (except perhaps the French ones). All of these actions reveal a
> faith in science advance, and, I think, just a touch of hypocrisy.
Yes--you won't likely find Thomas Khun demonstrating that the law of
gravity is a "constructed" truth by stepping out of his 10th floor
office window.
I don't think many poststructuralists really "readily dismiss" science,
though.
--
Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu