Academic publishing is a mess and it makes culture wars dumber

I remember once trying to look up a key famous line from the affair (perhaps “e=mc2 is a sexed equation” as attributed to Luce Irigaray) and found that the quote was pretty badly cooked.

I realized then that something was deeply rotten about the online skeptic/scientism/atheist culture where everday internet nerds went from 1996-2014 to feel normal. I finally read Sokal and Bricmont and found it interested and interesting and nothing at all like the furious culture of owning postmodernists/creationists/religions in which it had become a sacred text.

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