Attempts to reshape science classes delegitimize science as an especially trustworthy form of knowledge and promote “other ways of knowing” instead. … Read the rest

The Skeptical Dictionary looks at energy medicine, the flow of chi or prana, auras, chakras…… Read the rest

It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest

Some antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God. … Read the rest

When cultures are organized around controlling and using women, is blanket respect for Other cultures such a good idea?… Read the rest

Conference brought Armenian
and Turkish scholars together for the first time to discuss the 1915 genocide.… Read the rest

The Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… Read the rest

‘Sexual selection really is a good candidate for explaining a great deal about the unique evolution of our species.’… Read the rest

‘There has been a tendency among Marxist, or marxisant, critics of Darwin, and social Darwinism, to criticise, or ridicule, the theory as a simple product of the society in which it was developed.’… Read the rest

Prose as a window-pane opens onto a reality that is solidly and visibly ‘out there.’… Read the rest

‘When I grew up and became a literary critic, I learned to keep silent about the reading experiences of liberation that I’d enjoyed since childhood.’… Read the rest

‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’… Read the rest

Washington freed his slaves in his will, Jefferson did not. The reasons of each tell us much about American history.… Read the rest

Investors need to know the truth, but voters don’t. Or not.… Read the rest

‘Developments take place in a world linked by ideas rather than by race.’… Read the rest

‘Indian history from the perspective of the Hindutva ideology reintroduces ideas that have long been discarded and are of little relevance to an understanding of the past.’… Read the rest

If you number your paragraphs, will people mistake you for Adorno?… Read the rest

Richard Dawkins on the cowardly flabbiness of the intellect that afflicts otherwise rational people confronted with long-established religions. … Read the rest

Most government-funded Islamic clubs ‘are run by deeply conservative men and perpetuate the segregation of women.’ … Read the rest

Dissent is part of all cultures, Asian decidedly included.… Read the rest