Abstract
This article deal with some kind of intellectual impostures or provoked misunderstanding produced in several aspect of the culture as literature, art, publicity, etc,.. But it is in Philosophy of science, where it had been faced up to by two professors of Physics: Bricmont and Sokal. I want to ask about the process in sciences going from the rationalism in XVII and XVIII centuries to the relativism in our times. After develop a method to insure some proprieties of science like exactitude and rigour, we end up in a sociologism what consider it as the result of the particular ambitions and struggle of power in the scientific community. But it was worth all this troubles to end up in this kind of reductionist knowledge?
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