Razib Khan writes on his Discover Magazine blog about the AAA anti-science movement.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-science/
How would you feel as a chemist if professional meetings were dominated by alchemists? If you were a neurologist specializing in traumatic brain injuries who had to go to conferences where they mostly talked about Qi? I’ve personally listened to enough cultural anthropologists who seem to be channeling aliens for whom Michel Foucalt is God as they issue forth a river of impenetrable jargon that I have sympathy for the frustration.
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