From: Christian Szegedy <szegedy@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T11:52:13+09:00
Subject: OT:  pseudoscience.

Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> 
> You have misunderstood Albert. He meant that perhaps the
> widespread conception of complexity theory was a
> bastardization of the real one.

Yes, you are right, and I already said in the followup mail
that I was sorry about my sloppyness.

> 
> In much the same way, I have seen relativity and quantum
> mechanics brought up in literature courses. In every case,
> the professor did not really understand what he was saying.

A hilarious (but true) story can be found here:

http://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal

Particularly interesting is the paper:
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of 
Quantum Gravity"

and its afterword.

Best regards, Christian