«The bottom line is this: It is never justified to distort the facts in the service of a social or political cause, no matter how just. If the cause is truly just, then it can be defended in full acceptance of the facts about the real world; if that cannot be done, then the cause is not just.»
https://thecritic.co.uk/woke-invades-the-sciences/

#science #rationality #ideology #politics #facts #methodology #AlanSokal

Looking for poetry in the space between McLuhanian probes and Alan Sokalian nonsense.

#MarshallMcLuhan #AlanSokal

> #AlanSokal laid siege to postmodern theory with a Trojan horse.. #Sokal wrote a deliberately preposterous academic paper called “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” He filled it with the then trendy jargon of “critical theory,” and submitted it to a prominent journal of cultural studies called Social Text.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/can-social-scientists-save-themselves-human-behavior-78858

#ChatGPT had the ground prepared for it by the #BullshitOfAmbition in #PublishOrPerish organizations?