Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:38:13 EDT From: gcb0-AT-Lehigh.EDU (Gordon Bearn) Subject: RE: Sokal replies when whomever it was (teillard?) pulled the the Piltdown Forgery we were all meant to be angry at the forgers.... but now when sokal pulls the social text forgery we are meant to be angry at those who were fooled by the forgery..... why this difference in the moral we are expected to draw? i feel like explaining this by appleal tothe fact that paleontologists had more cultural clout than a prankster, but that even a prankster has more clout than social text gordon ------------------
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