{"id":2151,"date":"2008-12-04T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2008-12-04T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T03:43:55","slug":"reviews-of-a-skewering-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/04\/reviews-of-a-skewering-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews of a Skewering Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Ebert: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/rogers-journal\/win-ben-steins-mind\">Win Ben Stein&#8217;s Mind<\/a>.<br \/>\nPeter R. Saulson: Review of &#8220;Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture&#8221; by Alan Sokal<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSkewers of &#8220;Expelled&#8221; from the first:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions (Soviet marching troops representing opponents of ID), pussy-foots around religion (not a single identified believer among the ID people), segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, and makes a completely baseless association between freedom of speech and freedom to teach religion in a university class that is not about religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Skewers of &#8220;Beyond&#8221; from the second:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the superb parodist has become a parody of himself. His new book, Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture, is anything but new. It consists almost entirely of reprints of previously published articles, including two pieces co-authored with theoretical physicist Jean Bricmont. Perhaps more troubling is that the reprinted articles say the same thing over and over again. Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, has in the past decade made a second career out of peddling just one idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though I wonder in the last case: is the Physics Today review actually a parody of a review?  I mean it has many of the prereqs (Ad hominem attacks?  Check.  Slammed for leaving out the reviewer&#8217;s own work?  Check.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Ebert: Win Ben Stein&#8217;s Mind. Peter R. Saulson: Review of &#8220;Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture&#8221; by Alan Sokal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68,69,70,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-you-tweed","category-religion","category-science","category-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}