Thus quackisms do not die when shown to be nonsense by scholarship. Consider, the success of astrology in spite of the existence of astronomy. What is true of sex is true of reason. This is about intercourse with an external reality not autostimulation by bugs in the reasoning process. Indeed, the history of science has been parallelled by their discovery and use.
Science is the struggle to find means to do that.
The business of science studies should provide scientists with a good read about the trials, tricks and traps of head-wanking and how they can be avoided. Now let us return to Sokal, Dawkin and postmodernism. Scientists as noted want to read about head-wanking so they can better avoid it. But what they find in science studies one luxurious head-wank. Scientists have been reluctant to criticise it however since all this work has been checked by peer-review and in other ways carries the stamp of academic accreditation.