quoted 5 lines -----Original Message-----
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> From: adam@damek.org [mailto:adam@damek.org]
> Sent: 31 January 2003 18:48
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] Re: bitter biter bans book
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quoted 5 lines The theory describes the reality it creates.
> > The theory describes the reality it creates.
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> OK, you've been reading too much of the crap this is making fun of:
> http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2.html
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Yeah, this was quite funny... but to be honest the scientific community
isn't really in a much better position, what with Hendrik Schön's recent
shenanigans at Bell labs, and a slew of spoof papers printed by several
scientific publications (there were ones on the origins of inertia and
a few fake dinosaur ones IIRC).
skism
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