Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science

"We should be thankful that Gross and Levitt have provided a wake-up call. Their significant overview of the thinking of those who teach our lawyers, journalists and teachers should be read by all who are concerned by the decline of the status of science in our times." — Physics Today

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A prominent life scientist and a prominent mathematician decry the deconstruction of scientific texts by literary critics and the rejection of scientific patriarchy by feminists, warning that 300 years of scientific achievement are under fire from scholars who know almost nothing about science. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Paul R. Gross, former director and president of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, is University Professor of Life Sciences, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Norman Levitt is professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and the author of Grassmannians and Gauss Maps in Piecewise-Linear Topology.