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		illiilliiililil on April 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Education Without Truth in Postmodern Perspectivis... I mean, did the post-modernists who read his paper know what post-modernism was?

danharaj on April 10, 2020 [–]

Why did Nature publish a proof that is widely considered to be fatally flawed, i.e. not a proof? https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11709

How did the Bogdanoff affair happen?

The fact that bullshit is hard to separate from "the truth" is a very good starting point for postmodern investigation.

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