On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:53:30 -0500, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote: > In <OD44r.17949$vo2.12...@newsfe07.iad>, on 03/02/2012 > at 02:17 PM, Chiron <chiron...@gmail.com> said: > >>What always gets me is how so many people criticized Sokal for doing it, > > Google for Omerta. It's common for whistle blowers to be chastised or > even persecuted. I agree that the criticism of Prof Sokal was > outrageous, but it was also predictable.
Yeah, omerta... I'm familiar with it. Talk and you're dead, and they put a canary in your mouth (well, some folks do, anyway). But of course you're right - it's a milder form of omerta. It's just so misguided. Kill the messenger. Imprison the whistle-blower. -- Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
