Jake Young is a 
My Friday rant about intellectuals triggered lots of interesting comments, both positive and negative.
Treb:
I know it was a "rant", but, wow, is it ever funny to hear someone rant that they are open-minded and someone else is not. Sounds like a high school column about trying to be cool.
I think many of your many generalizations apply equally to Med students.
And Jennifer Jacquet from Shifting Baselines:
Two wise men once wrote, "A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content." I liked that line (by Sokal and Bricmont in what was perhaps one of the longer modern rants: Fashionable Nonsense.
Fair enough. I am trying to limit being unfair to a single day in the week, so that it doesn't work its way into the other posts.
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