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> Additionally, Fredrickson references a textbook called Differential Equations, Dynamical Systems, and an Introduction to Chaos, a book Sokal says “is aimed at upper-level undergraduates in mathematics, physics and related disciplines.”

> “If she had studied 1/10th of what she said she studied,” says Sokal, “she would have seen right through Losada.”

The author making the bad claims seems to have a pretty decent math education. Or she's lying about what she studied...



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