Do scientists ‘keep the faith’ and if so is that a good thing? Is religion a good source of morality?… Read the rest

‘psychoanalysis, unlike a scientific theory but very much like certain religious or political movements, has essentially been immune from attacks leveled at it either from inside or outside the movement.’… Read the rest

Literary criticism, cultural studies; love letter and satire.… Read the rest

Don’t essentialize Indianness, but you’d better get the Real India right.… Read the rest

It’s important to distinguish between necessary, useful technicality, and jargon or pseudo-mathematics substituting for genuine rigor.… Read the rest

We need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.… 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

Meera Nanda had good reasons to fight against patriarchal, upper-caste Hindu traditions that would have suppressed all she valued. Science was not ‘elitist’ or Western but a way of life and a philosophy for social action.… 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

What is a government department doing endorsing the idea that traditions and myths count as evidence?… Read the rest

‘the findings were nicely congruent with the hypothesis’ – yes, they always are, that’s the problem.… Read the rest

Miller wonders why ‘unavailing Latinate neologisms’ convince so many people that something profound is being said.… Read the rest

How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream… Read the rest

‘We are in danger of losing our grip on the concepts of truth, evidence, objectivity, disinterested inquiry.’… Read the rest

Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.… Read the rest