COMMENT:By a biologist and a mathematician, this is a defense of science against contemporary cultural criticism from the "academic left." This means deconstructionists treating science as arbitrary text, feminists condemning it as patriarchal, radical environmentalists, AIDS activists and more. The authors note that scholars with such fashionable viewpoints have little knowledge of science, and that their attitudes follow a long tradition of Romantic reaction against Rationalism. They discuss the consequences of these views for the university community and society at large. The book adopts a strongly polemical tone; coupled with its mistakes and consistently uncharitable approach, this results in a distorted view.
DATE:19990625
KEYWORDS:anti-science science
MISC:328p.
PUBLISHER:The Johns Hopkins University Press
SUBMITADDR:bibliographer@csicop.org
SUBMITNAME:Taner Edis
TITLE:Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
