>>13950087Yes but also not really. Postmodernists cannot be "reality checked" because there is no reality for them and his book never reached them.
For the rest of the people he's addressing he's mostly building strawmen that he's attacking. E.g. his issue with anthropologists; even the most leftist ones in the American school surrounding Franz Boas talked about a figurative blank slate, not a literal one.
He's among the first scientists to use polarization as a marketing gimmick, i.e. either you're a strict biological determinist, or you're a postmodern science-denier, nothing in between.
