Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:42:15 -0500
From: rahul-AT-peaches.ph.utexas.edu (Rahul Mahajan)
Subject: Re: Sokal


>Look, Rahul, give us a break here. I have yet to see anyone call for academic
>retribution against Sokal, or anyone call into question his political
>allegiances. (I, for one, am pretty much prepared to accept at face value a
>self-description of leftist in a society where where there is little or no
>social advantage for being so.) All that I see is an attempt to make him into
>a martyr for the cause of science, a modern day Galileo, by constructing out
>of thin air some literary "(witch) doctors' plot" to get him. Fantasize all
>you want, but some of us still hold to a distinction between the real and the
>imaginary. (Couldn't resist that one.)
>
>Leo

Leo, I didn't make it up and I don't live in the hothouse of the East
coast, so I don't know what is happening. I have seen a number of people
raise the ethical issue, though. I'm not looking to see him burned at the
stake, I merely want to find out when and if anyone else is going to.

Leo, for your part, why don't you stop being so smug about how stupid we
all are and actually get into the debate.

Rahul





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