NAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.
Flashback
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
NAGPRA and the Demon-haunted World
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.
Norman Geras on Minimum Utopia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.
Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.
Brian Appleyard’s Understanding the Present reviewed.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’
Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’
Naomi Weisstein defends the beanie hat
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.
Irfan Khawaja takes issue with Daniel Pipes
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.
Ni Putes ni Soumises
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.
Derek Freeman or Margaret Mead?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.
Derek Freeman Replies
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.
Gangsta Rap Culture Not Such a Good Thing?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?
