Max Moseley
I am now an independent self-financed ('amateur') biologist able to indulge my lifelong interest in the diversity and ecology of subterranean invertebrates. My fieldwork is centred on the basic cataloging of cave-associated fauna in North West England, Maritime Canada and peninsular Malaysia. These all represent areas that historically have been neglected by cave biologists because they have few troglobionts. Insights from this work have recently led to a focus on development of novel perspectives in cave ecology e.g. caves as ecotones.
My other current research interests, which include gypsum caves and karst and British mining history, are somewhat eclectic but all involve the underground world.
I have a biology degree (London, UK,1966) and an MBA (Lancaster,UK,1981). Before retiring I worked as an applied biologist managing R&D and technology transfer projects. These were mostly in areas involving marine products, such as lectins and the cultivation of commercially-valuable marine plants (seaweeds).
The post-modernist abandonment of reason and objectivity concerns me greatly. The retrograde slide into obscurantism and ignorance, long evident in the social 'sciences' and in our Liberal Arts departments is now, in such forms as 'post-normal science', damaging the sciences too.
In 1996 a New York University physicist, Alan Sokal convincingly demonstrated the emptiness of post-modernism by writing a load of drivel and submitting it to one of the leading pm journals, Social Text. His paper, hilariously entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' was accepted and published. The efforts of the editors to wriggle out of the trap were perhaps even more damning.
Ecrasons l'Infame! (Voltaire)
My other current research interests, which include gypsum caves and karst and British mining history, are somewhat eclectic but all involve the underground world.
I have a biology degree (London, UK,1966) and an MBA (Lancaster,UK,1981). Before retiring I worked as an applied biologist managing R&D and technology transfer projects. These were mostly in areas involving marine products, such as lectins and the cultivation of commercially-valuable marine plants (seaweeds).
The post-modernist abandonment of reason and objectivity concerns me greatly. The retrograde slide into obscurantism and ignorance, long evident in the social 'sciences' and in our Liberal Arts departments is now, in such forms as 'post-normal science', damaging the sciences too.
In 1996 a New York University physicist, Alan Sokal convincingly demonstrated the emptiness of post-modernism by writing a load of drivel and submitting it to one of the leading pm journals, Social Text. His paper, hilariously entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' was accepted and published. The efforts of the editors to wriggle out of the trap were perhaps even more damning.
Ecrasons l'Infame! (Voltaire)
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