As Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a. Actually, as ofte

As Sokal, Bricmont and Dawkins and many others have pointed out many of these big names in the humanities were simply talking out of their a. Actually, as often as not, it was Sokal, Bricmont, and Dawkins (and many others) who were talking out of their ass, egregiously and gratuitously misreading (or not reading at all) the "big names in the humanities" they were attacking. For one particularly well documented instance, see: http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.197/plotnitsky.197 http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/text-only/issue.197/plotnitsky....