Dans leur livre "Impostures intellectuelles" les physiciens Bricmont et Sokal s'attaquent au postmodernisme et l'accusent d'avoir devalue la science en la reduisant a une dimension proprement subjective. A mon avis, c'est le voleur ici qui crie "Au voleur!". La science n'a ete devaluee que par les scientifiques:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
http://dogma.free.fr/txt/PVInconsistance.htm
On peut meme parler de Postscientisme - un courant qui a commence en 1850 ( http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev4.htm ) et qui peut etre defini comme "science sans logique":
http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev8.htm
On peut se transporter dans l'atmosphere de George Orwell et definir les trois principes du postscientisme comme:
LA FAUSSETE, C'EST LA VERITE
Le principe de la constance de la vitesse de la lumiere est faux, mais la theorie de la relativite est vraie ( http://www.wbabin.net/valev/valev5.htm ).
La premisse de Carnot (la chaleur se conserve) est fausse, mais son corollaire (la seconde loi de la thermodynamique) est vrai.
L'OBSCURITE, C'EST LA PUISSANCE
C. Truesdell: « Clausius verbal statement of the second law makes no sense.... All that remains is a Mosaic prohibition ; a century of philosophers and journalists have acclaimed this commandement ; a century of mathematicians have shuddered and averted their eyes from the unclean... Seven times in the past thirty years have I tried to follow the argument Clausius offers....and seven times has it blanked and gravelled me.... I cannot explain what I cannot understand. »
A. Eddington: «The law that entropy always increases, - the second law of thermodynamics holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwells equations then so much the worse for Maxwells equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation well, these experimentalists bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope ; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.»
LA SCIENCE, C'EST L'ARGENT
http://einsteinplag.tripod.com/intro.html
http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
Toujours dans l'atmosphere de George Orwell, c'est ce passage de son livre "1984" qui decrit tres bien la situation d'un heretique a l'epoque du postscientisme:
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?"
Pentcho Valev
