Re: What before big bang?
From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 09/09/04
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:32:31 GMT
"YBM" <ybmess@nooos.fr> wrote in message news:414086a8$0$7599$636a15ce@news.free.fr...
> Dirk Van de moortel a écrit :
> >>http://ybmessager.free.fr/docs/potpourri.html
> >
> >
> > Wow, some of this stuff could have been listed in Sokal and
> > Bricmont's overview:
> > http://human-nature.com/reason/books/sokal-bricmont.html
> > If you haven't read this one, please do. Many things will sound
> > very familiar.
>
> I know quite well this "affair", one of the more interesting
> events for epistemology of the last years. Ironically, the Bogdanov's
> work has been first taken as a hoax in the spirit of Sokal's one,
> in order to discredit theoretical physics.
>
> It was not a hoax, in the sense that the Bogdanov Brother really
> believe in their stuff, but in a sense it puts a discredit on
> theoretical physics anyway.
Maybe you haven't had a close look at the link I gave.
This is a book where their hoax affair is merely briefly mentioned.
The main part of the book shows how contemporary well-known
French 'philosophers' abuse scientific language in the most stupid
and disgusting way (Deleuze, Irigaray, Lacan, Latour and others).
It -really- hurts. Do check it out...
Dirk Vdm
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