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  • (BTW: He also offers a searing criticism of Darwinism as an antitheory.)

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  • Evolution by natural selection, for instance, which Charles Darwin originally conceived as a great theory, has lately come to function more as an antitheory, called upon to cover up embarrassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize findings that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong.

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  • "Evolution by natural selection, for instance, which Charles Darwin originally conceived as a great theory, has lately come to function more as an antitheory, called upon to cover up embarrassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize findings that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong."

    Another Nobel Laureate 2005

  • Evolution by natural selection, for instance, which Charles Darwin originally conceived as a great theory, has lately come to function more as an antitheory, called upon to cover up embarrassing experimental shortcomings and legitimize findings that are at best questionable and at worst not even wrong.

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  • Derrida’s late-60s antitheory theory, despised by orderly structuralists, has led to much scholarly wordplay and interdisciplinary whipping.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Derrida’s late-60s antitheory theory, despised by orderly structuralists, has led to much scholarly wordplay and interdisciplinary whipping.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Derrida’s late-60s antitheory theory, despised by orderly structuralists, has led to much scholarly wordplay and interdisciplinary whipping.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Derrida’s late-60s antitheory theory, despised by orderly structuralists, has led to much scholarly wordplay and interdisciplinary whipping.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

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