Richard Dawkins and Postmodernism

"There's this thing called being so open-minded your brains drop out"
http://richarddawkins.net/


Read further criticism here:
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/so...

...also from Noam Chomsky:
http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Cho...

...Dan Dennett:
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/p...

...Steven Weinberg:
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/so...

...Victor J Stenger:
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryR...

...PZ Myers (sweeping remarks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Rzd3...

...Michael Baum (6 videos, sweeping remarks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grWfxs...

...and Steven Pinker (sweeping remarks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQHSK...

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The most damning criticism has come from Alan Sokal:
http://www.amazon.com/Fashionable-Non...
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Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticis...

"Gravity's not a version of the truth, it IS the truth - anybody who doubts it is invited to jump out of a tenth floor window"

This is a sample from an excellent series filmed for British TV called "The Genius of Charles Darwin", which can be seen in its entirety here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YzS32...

The philosophy of science (or epistemology - how we 'know' what we know) expounded beautifully by AronRa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80nhqG...

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