Feyerabend on Popper

I don’t actually mind Karl Popper, but it’s still fun once in awhile to read Paul Feyerabend’s rant against him. This is from pp. 184-5 of Farewell to Reason:

“In his attack on Bohr, Popper compares his own ‘critical’ philosophy with the alleged dogmatism of the Copenhagen Circle; more especially, he opposes his own ‘arguments’ to Bohr’s irrationalism. This is a travesty of the facts. It is hard to find a group as aggressive and disrespectful of its ‘leader’ as the group of scientists, philosophers, students, and Nobel Prize winners that regularly assembled around Bohr; and it is hard to find a thinker as aware of the many problems with our attempt to grasp reality as was Bohr. On the other hand, it is hard to duplicate the vapid servility that characterizes the Popperian Circle and it is almost impossible to dismantle all the myths, distortions, slanders, and historical fairytales spread by its leader.”