On Jun 25, 2006, at 5:18 PM, Auguste Blanqui wrote:
> Doug still has not yet answered the question about his Stanley Beef.
It started with his jobless future (or was it end of work?) stuff, which was incredibly awful <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/ Jobless_future.html>. Then on a panel at a Socialist Scholars Conference - which was originally supposed to be a debate between us, but on which either SA or the organizers chickened out - I criticized it, and all he would say was "I'm going to resist the temptation to respond to Doug Henwood because it's not a matter of statistics." Later on he took a swipe at my "economistic" POV.
He's also the main reason Social Text pub'd Sokal's piece. And he said in his own piece in the Sokal ish that medicine did more harm than good in the 20th century. On a panel with Dan Lazare at a SSC in the 90s, he came out against chemistry.
Doug