Hi
It would seem that the person being discussed is Mme Elizabeth Teissier. If so,
she has a website in which she discusses her thesis - in French!
It is at: http://www.club-internet.fr/teissier/
Bob
Keith Hudson wrote:
>
> <<<<
> A number of French scientists have joined a call for Mme Teisser's
> doctorate to be revoked. They have poured scorn on her 900-page thesis,
> entitled "The epistemological situation of astrology through ambivalence
> fascination/rejection in post-modern societies."
> >>>>
>
> . . . and here's a bit more:
> <<<<
> Bernard Lahire, Professor of Sociology at the elite �cole Normale
> Sup�rieure, said in his report of the affair: "It is not that this is a bad
> sociological thesis. It is one that has a total absence of sociology in it.
> It only defends the point of view of the astrologer and lacks anything that
> can be called scientific. . . . [The Sorbonne has become] a refuge for
> lecturers without rigour and who are sometimes explicitly anti-rational."
> >>>>
>
> Oh, and there was something else about Mme Teissier -- she once advised
> President Mitterand on the conduct of the Gulf War.
>
--
http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcdaniel/
