This document summarizes Mario Bunge's critique of charlatanism in academia. It provides examples of anti-scientific movements that have infiltrated universities, including existentialism, phenomenology, phenomenological sociology, and ethnomethodology. Bunge argues that these schools of thought promote subjective idealism, obscurantism, and the denial of objective truth and empirical evidence. They discourage clear thinking and rational inquiry, instead focusing on individual interpretation. Bunge believes these anti-scientific movements are misusing academic freedom and resources to spread nonsense and undermine the search for truth in universities.

Bunge - in Praise of Intolerance To Charlatanism in Academia - Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences 1995 PDF

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