Evolutionary psychologists are very butthurt about the new Scientific American

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Feyerabend is an idiot.

Yes, It certainly sounds like it.

Was Philosopher Paul Feyerabend Really Science's "Worst Enemy"? - Scientific American Blog Network

He was a founding father of the Counter-Enlightmenment.

Postmodernism and the History of Science

There have been a few threads lately in which the subject of postmodernism has come up, usually in the context of people comparing it to the “post-truth” tactics of the modern American right. We also have a few folks here who push back on that; sometimes by denying the analogy altogether, sometimes by denying a causative link between the phenomena. Personally, I’m not rabidly opposed to postmodern academia; I think that it’s an approach that can provide useful insights in certain areas. Howeve…