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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science is a book by biologist Paul R. Gross and mathematician Norman Levitt. Both authors claim to be leftists who are trying to save the academic left from itself.

The book begins with a brief history of the left and, in its early pages, makes an important distinction: There is a difference between saying that science is a social project and saying that what science studies is a social construct.

See also: Sokal Affair

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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science by Paul R. Gross, and Norman Levitt BooksEnthsiast.com
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by The Editors of Lingua Franca (Editor), et al BooksEnthsiast.com
A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science by Noretta Koertge (Editor) BooksEnthsiast.com
The Flight from Science and Reason by Paul R. Gross (Editor), et al BooksEnthsiast.com
Who Rules in Science: An Opinionated Guide to the Wars by James Robert Brown BooksEnthsiast.com
The Social Construction of What by Ian Hacking BooksEnthsiast.com

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