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...absurd. All one can do is feel pity for those who don't appreciate the difference in artistic value between a masterpiece and a urinal. One can also feel saddened by the fact that very little great art is being produced today because of the spread of post-modernist philosophy...
Post-modernism regards partiality in science aspart of an inescapable universal bias. Accordingto post-modernist theory, no truths can beuniversally held, since all concepts of trutharise from local influences...
Professor of Chemistry Dudley Herschbach sayspost-modernist theory seems to be somewhatself-contradictory. "It seems to be a sort ofnihilistic thing," he says. "[Post-modernisttheory] is like explaining to a farmer that hedoesn't know what...
Professor of Physics John Huth says he wasalarmed by the postmodern views he encountered inCongress when he participated in the debate overfunding the Superconducting Supercollider, a giantparticlesmasher in Texas whose funding was cut inOctober 1993. "The post-modernist view had creptin around the edges in Washington," says Huth...
Huth says he e-mailed colleagues around theworld to express his concern over thepost-modernist movement, which led to contact withthe National Science Board of the Czech republic...