Village Voice reviews Sokal-Bricmont

[Frances Bolton (PHI)]

Rakesh, 

I think your overreacting. Lott is maybe being a bit sloppy in that he is
suggeting there is a closer connection between NSMs and the academic left
than there in fact is. You can't read Rorty and think he's pro-identity
politics, and Sokal is always refering to himself as an unrepentant Old
Leftist. The Old Left was not great on women and people of color,.for the 
most part. Plus, I think there is a bit of Sokial being judge byhis
friends--he does run with some very fast company (see: Gross and Levitt).
There is also the question of his writing style, he is vicious. 
 So one might expect that he will be treated likewise.
 
> I have also been blown away by Frances abusing John Maynard Smith just
> because in the course of a very thoughtful review of Lewontin and Levins he
> wonders whether dialectics may be anachronistic in terms of the
(and so on)

Huh? I never mentioned John Maynard Smith. I've never even read him him. I
just went back over the stuff I posted to the list--nothing about him.
Please take more care to see who wrote what before attacking people for
things they did not in fact write.

frances