Your criticism reminds me of the book "Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie"; it is only available in French, but Wikipedia has a good summary [0]: > Jacques Bou

Your criticism reminds me of the book "Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie"; it is only available in French, but Wikipedia has a good summary [0]: > Jacques Bouveresse is interested in the incompleteness theorems of Kurt Gödel and their philosophical consequences. On this account, he has attacked, in a popular work Prodiges et vertiges de l'analogie, the use made of these theorems by Régis Debray. Bouveresse denounces the literary distortion of a scientific concept for the purpose of a thesis. This distortion, according to him, has no other purpose than to overwhelm a readership which lacks the training necessary to comprehend such complex theorems. Bouveresse's reproach to Debray is not that he uses a scientific concept for the purpose of an analogy, but that he uses such a difficult to understand theorem in the attempt to provide an absolute justification in the form of the classic sophism of the argument from authority. According to Bouveresse, the incompleteness of a formal system which applies to certain mathematical systems in no way implies the incompleteness of sociology, which is not a formal system. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Bouveresse#Incompleteness_and_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Bouveresse#Incompleten...