Michael Gordin, “Science and Pseudoscience” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Book of Moses - A Psychoanalyst
Foyd claims that you can do the same thing you do with dreams to the bible. What's going on in the bible is a lot of metaphors and illusions that are like the dream work. And if you know how to read them right, you can decode the underlying story that it's trying to suppress. The murder of moses by the hebrews who are sick of his puritanical regulations. This is horrifying to valokovski, and he decides he's going to write a refutation of it. He's a psychoanalyst. He can do this. A settles down in the upper, upper west side, and then goes to near a public library. While he
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