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How long before an ignorant humanities scholar writes a book claiming that the "Rathke Affair" proves that all math is nonsense?
by icandoitbetter 14y ago
How long before an ignorant humanities scholar writes a book claiming that the "Rathke Affair" proves that all math is nonsense?
- xaa 14y agoWe have independent verification that math works, because it is used every day in millions of companies to perform a variety of critical tasks. The targets of the Sokal Affair were on much shakier ground to begin with.
- 001sky 14y agoWhether Academia is full of shit is irrelevant to the validity of mathematics. That being said, the GP comment basically demonstrates a peculiar cognitive bias. A variation of a logical fallacy: "I'm not dumb, therefore I never do dumb things." Of which we see all too often grafted into politics: Viz: Science is objective, therefore my (self-interested political) viewpoints are also objective, infallible, and inevitably correct.