Commentary to ‘The postmodern assault on science’ by Marcel Kuntz
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Commentary to 'The postmodern assault on science' by Marcel Kuntz.
With allusions to Nietzsche, violent anti-GM organisms groups, nefarious ‘parallel scientists’ and numerous other actors and actions, Marcel Kuntz manufactures a bizarre alchemy to cast postmodernism as an ‘assault’ on science [1]. Whilst one can dispute his use of the ‘postmodern’ label itself and the idea that tolerance of ambiguity and diversity of opinion is a twentieth century phenomenon, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2012.209