Sunday, March 14, 2021

One of these things is just like the other.

I challenge anyone to identify which of these excerpts is from the notorious social science hoax "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" by Alan Sokal, and which is a perfectly serious excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson.

And ... go:

 


 

OMG OMG OMG ... This could literally be the thing that writes Peterson's next book. Just keep pressing "REIONIZE ELECTRONS" and witness the hilarity.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

After Peterson's recent history of acknowledged addiction, mental and physical collapse, and pursuit of magical cures in Eastern Europe, one would like to think that he will be written off forever as a minor footnote in canon of failed right wing attempts to enshrine their very own "intellectuals". But then one ponders the ongoing existence of Conrad Black...

Purple library guy said...

Well, the Peterson doesn't quote anybody. So, less highbrow.

Anonymous said...

Jordan Peterson is the P. T. Barnum of L. Ron Hubbards.