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05-03-2007, 06:36 PM
Never before have such extreme postmodern hoaxes been perpetuated in graduate schools:
Peter Woit writes,
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=552#comments (http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ewoit/wordpress/?p=552#comments)
"These books attempt to cover a huge literature which consists of failed attempts to make some sort of connection with the real world, and I can’t think of any other field of physics or mathematics where there are graduate-level textbooks that could be characterized in this way."
"While ignoring string theory’s mathematically most interesting insights, these books lead students into a horrendously complicated thicket of speculative ideas that generally don’t work, but provide enough grist for decades of research projects to come. Any student who chooses to follow this path will need to devote many years to mastering this material, a one-year graduate course is not going to do the trick. There’s no particular reason to believe that this kind of training is one that will lead to a solid background in techniques that are likely to have more success in the future."
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=552#comments (http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ewoit/wordpress/?p=552#comments)
Ha ha ho hee ha ho hee ho ha ho hee ha ho!
The useful idiots can sell their souls for tenture, tax, and tuition dollars, as science's moral premise--THE TRUTH--is done away with.
Ha ha ho hee ha ho hee ho ha ho hee ha ho!
Peter Woit writes,
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=552#comments (http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ewoit/wordpress/?p=552#comments)
"These books attempt to cover a huge literature which consists of failed attempts to make some sort of connection with the real world, and I can’t think of any other field of physics or mathematics where there are graduate-level textbooks that could be characterized in this way."
"While ignoring string theory’s mathematically most interesting insights, these books lead students into a horrendously complicated thicket of speculative ideas that generally don’t work, but provide enough grist for decades of research projects to come. Any student who chooses to follow this path will need to devote many years to mastering this material, a one-year graduate course is not going to do the trick. There’s no particular reason to believe that this kind of training is one that will lead to a solid background in techniques that are likely to have more success in the future."
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=552#comments (http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ewoit/wordpress/?p=552#comments)
Ha ha ho hee ha ho hee ho ha ho hee ha ho!
The useful idiots can sell their souls for tenture, tax, and tuition dollars, as science's moral premise--THE TRUTH--is done away with.
Ha ha ho hee ha ho hee ho ha ho hee ha ho!