Thus we encounter books that pontificate about the intellectual crisis of contemporary physics, whose authors have never troubled themselves with a simple problem in statics, essays that make knowing reference to chaos theory from authors who could not recognize, much less solve, a first order differential equation; tirades about the semiotic tyranny of DNA and molecular biology, from scholars who have never been inside a real library, or asked how that drug they are taking lowers their blood pressure
-Higher Superstition, Normal Levitt and Paul Gross