My new favourite quote comes from a recent paper by Alberto Zanchetti , Guido Grassi and Giuseppe Mancia in the May 2009 Journal of Hypertension. …[W]isdom should not be taken for evidence… The paper’s full abstract:

The schools of thought that have dominated literary theory for the last half-century are dying. But they still have their adherents. Consider this widely referenced essay in The Chronicle Review. Here François Cusset writes a defence of what he calls “French theory” (which is not a term I like but at least seems to have [...]