What is the difference between genuine inquiry and the sham and fake variety?… Read the rest

In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest

‘But the gender-genre books that are based largely on clinical intuition and popular psychology typically lack a basic skepticism toward received wisdom and the willingness to wrestle with an idea to see who wins.’… Read the rest

Deniers distort history in order to promote antisemitism and white supremacy.… Read the rest

The new chauvinism receives official sanction from government and academic institutions.… Read the rest

‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest

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

‘He was very easily irritated by anything bogus, anything facile or hypocritical.’… Read the rest

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

Dowsing, homeopathy, Tarot cards and their relevance to mental health professions, and, of course, alien abductions.… Read the rest

‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest

Consider Will Crooks, Labour MP. ‘Growing up in extreme poverty…Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand Iliad, and was dazzled…’… Read the rest

‘We are born of primordial slime, not at the hands of a benevolent and concerned supreme being who lovingly crafted us from clay.’… Read the rest

What if you want to talk about an authentic self instead of an ‘authentic self’?… Read the rest

‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest