"If the person promoting the fantasy is incapable of defending it and wishes to be taken seriously, then it becomes clever to inject into the argument a dose of the final authoirty — science. … This is quite ironic. At its core, postmodernism is a philosophy of inexactitudes. But in an effort to find credence, it goes to the exact sciences. … We are now in the precarious position where science has given us the tools — and possibly the imperative — to convey fiction, and fiction has the persuasive power of science. … Gurus can get away with saying nothing if they cloak it in ponderous terminology."