> Funny thing to happen even as we debate this stuff...
>
> http://platosbeard.org/archives/201
>
> Sociologist Harry Collins poses as a physicist
> By Jon Lackman - Slate Magazine
>
> In a recent experiment of his design, British sociologist Harry Collins
> asked a scientist who specializes in gravitational waves to answer seven
> questions about the physics of these waves. Collins, who has made an
> amateur study of this field for more than 30 years but has never
> actually practiced it, also answered the questions himself. Then he
> submitted both sets of answers to a panel of judges who are themselves
> gravitational-wave researchers. The judges couldn’t tell the impostor
> from one of their own.
>
> [...]
I'm not sure what this is supposed to show. That non-scientists can intelligently discuss science? Who argues otherwise? What has it got to do with the Sokal Social Text hoax? The point of that wasn't to show that non-scientists can't understand science (of course they can), but that the particular discussion of science going on in the journal was fundamentally silly.
-Alex
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