ABSTRACT
Academic freedom was introduced to protect the search truth and teaching of it. The academic charlatans have not earned the academic freedom they enjoy. The academic enemies of the very raison d'etre of the university, namely the search for and dissemination of truth, can be grouped into two bands: the antiscientists, who often call themselves "postmodernists", and the pseudoscientists. Academic antiscience is part of the counterculture movement. It can be found in nearly all departments of any contemporary faculty of arts, particularly in the advanced countries. This chapter explores a small sample of the antiscientific reaction inside the gates of academia: existentialism, phenomenology, phenomenological sociology, ethnomethodology, and radical feminist theory. There are two kinds of ignorance: natural and willful, traditional and postmodern. The former is unavoidable and its admission mandatory: it is part of being a curious learner and an honest teacher. Willful or postmodern ignorance is the deliberate refusal to learn items relevant to one's interests.
