[Irtalk] Does the Science of Human Behavior Only Show Us What We Want to See? - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society

[Hilton Gibson]

*Academic hoaxes have a way of crystallizing, and then shattering, the
intellectual pretensions of an era*. It was almost 20 years ago, for
instance, that a physicist named Alan Sokal laid siege to postmodern theory
with a Trojan horse.

http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/can-social-scientists-save-themselves-human-behavior-78858
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