Ah, Dear Gentle Reader(s), Andrew Sullivan has posed, I think, a conundrum in a posting today on The Daily Dish.
What to do when English language writers, acting in the Germanic manner of stringing a lot of words together-schauspielhaus (show talk house)=theatre, come up with neologisms such as Sullivan’s “faux-bullshit-science” as an adjective for political science.
How do we call BS on him?
What, really, is “faux” bullshit? False bullshit? Does that make political science “real?”
Mightn’t Sullivan have meant faux science with a little bullshit science thrown in for, um, flavor?
Andrew, next time use commas. After all, you’ve been doing a meme on the final comma for a few days now.
Faux, bullshit science” reads clearer than “faux-bullshit-science.” More American, don’t cha know.
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