> On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> the key is which reactionaries you're talking about... Sokal, it seems
> to
> > me, wants politics and science separated so he can take on reactionary
> > politics in physics - from funding to research programs to right wing
> > scientists - but believes this is only possible because he separates
> > politics and science.
>
> Where do you get any of this?
>
>From quite close readings - at the time - of his explanation/s of the hoax
and parallels between the kinds of arguments he made in those texts and
interviews and the arguments against constructionism by other traditional
lefty (and liberal) scientists... have I misremembered something? I'll
admit it's been a decade or more and that I've not gone back and reread
anything...