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“two cultures ” of science and the humanities, the gap between them has, if anything, widened. Where Snow saw mutual isolation and ignorance, however, recent years have witnessed a number of gross misrepresentations of, and even attacks on, the scientific enterprise, from a number of intellectual quarters—self-styled “feminists”, self-styled “Marxists”, and, of course, postmodernists of various stripes (see, e.g., Gross & Levitt, 1994; Sagan, 1996; Sokal & Bricmont, 1998, for documentation). The field of SLA has not been spared: a look at the “applied linguistics ” literature all too easily turns up misinterpretations of natural sciences and misguided attempts to apply them to SLA (Edge, 1993; Larsen-Freeman, 1997; Schumann, 1983), doubts about the value of controlling for variables (Block, 1996), reduction of empirical claims to metaphors (Lantolf, 1996; Schumann, 1983), mockery of empirical claims in SLA as “physics envy” (Lantolf, 1996), and denials of the possibilit
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“two cultures ” of science and the humanities, the gap between them has, if anything, widened. Where Snow saw mutual isolation and ignorance, however, recent years have witnessed a number of gross misrepresentations of, and even attacks on, the scientific enterprise, from a number of intellectual quarters—self-styled “feminists”, self-styled “Marxists”, and, of course, postmodernists of various stripes (see, e.g., Gross & Levitt, 1994; Sagan, 1996; Sokal & Bricmont, 1998, for documentation). The field of SLA has not been spared: a look at the “applied linguistics ” literature all too easily turns up misinterpretations of natural sciences and misguided attempts to apply them to SLA (Edge, 1993; Larsen-Freeman, 1997; Schumann, 1983), doubts about the value of controlling for variables (Block, 1996), reduction of empirical claims to metaphors (Lantolf, 1996; Schumann, 1983), mockery of empirical claims in SLA as “physics envy” (Lantolf, 1996), and denials of the possibilit
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