Demolishing the irrational, anti-scientific, fashionable nonsense of academic Postmodern Critical Theory. These cynical ideological dogmas need to be exposed.
/23 For a more detailed critique of the anti-scientific attitudes embedded in #postmodern#criticaltheory, Alan Sokal’s brilliant and hilarious 1995 masterpiece cannot be bettered: “Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science”. /end.
/3 Bernadette Wren was Head of Psychology at the Tavistock for 25 years. She cited #poststructuralist philosophy, a subset of Postmodern Critical Theory [PoMoCT], as a formative influence. Major PoMoCT figures such as Richard Rorty & Michel Foucault were central to her thinking.
/22 If society does not resist the avalanche of irrational, anti-scientific ideas in #postmodern#criticaltheory, more ethical and medical disasters comparable to the Tavistock scandal will undoubtedly occur. These theories, by their very nature, are unable to course-correct.