Tom Jonard's Anti-Science Page
There is a an antiscience movement today that is to be distinguished from science illiteracy. The illiterate can't help thenselves. The system has simply failed them in one way or another. The antiscience crowd on the other hand is out to deconstruct the scientific worldview. They know what they are doing. And they are not contributing to scientific literacy. But they say they are. They say that the reason students just don't "get it" is that science is foreign to their cultural context. Furthermore they say science is not really about objective reality but simply another culturally contextual way of thinking. But this does not promote science as much as it promotes other, alternative ways of thinking.Articles on this subject:
- Post Modern Culturalism and Scientific Illiteracy, Bernard Ortiz de Montellano, Online APS News, January, 1998
- Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences, Pauline Rosenau, Princeton University Press, 1991)
- Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science, Paul R. Gross with Norman Levitt (contrib.), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994
- Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan D. Sokal & Jean Bricmont, St. Martin's Press, 1998
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Created September 6, 2002,