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    Jean Bricmont (French: [bʁikmɔ̃]; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University...
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  • Sokal, Allan and Jean Bricmont. "Que se passe-t-il ?" Libération 18–19 October 1997. pp. 5–6. Sokal & Bricmont (1997, p. 17) Sokal & Bricmont (1998b, p. 8)...
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  • Fashionable Nonsense (category Books by Jean Bricmont)
    is a book by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. As part of the so-called science wars, Sokal and Bricmont criticize postmodernism in academia for...
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  • Bricmont is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jean Bricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and...
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  • philosopher Jean Brankart (1930–2020), Belgian cyclist Jean Bricmont (born 1952), Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science Jean Chrétien...
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  • (and other postmodernists) criticized by physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont in 1997 for what they characterize as misunderstanding and misuse of...
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  • mainstream press. Scientific realists (such as Norman Levitt, Paul R. Gross, Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal) accused many writers, whom they described as 'postmodernist'...
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  • vein, Richard Dawkins writes in a favorable review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures: Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with...
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  • pharaoh Ramses II, that his death was due to tuberculosis. In the 1990s, Jean Bricmont and Alan Sokal wrote of Latour: "How could he pass away due to a bacillus...
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  • effectively destroyed all of science. The physicists Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont argued that critiques of Popper's work have provoked an "irrationalist...
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