Month: April 2010

She refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.

Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.

Not for fans of the saint

It is not possible to insult or defame someone who has been dead for 1,374 years.

A commitment to women’s equality has eroded and strong opposition to this commitment has emerged.

There’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.

Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…

If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.

Entrenches the opinions of parents.

Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics.

One of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory

Don’t think someone as educated as Ross could fall into such a trap? Think again.

What is called for is an exquisite balance between skeptical scrutiny and great openness to new ideas.

She has case histories that will freeze your blood. These, however, are in some ways less depressing than the excuses made by qualified liberals for their continuation.

When someone gets ill, women are punished.

Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.

Intellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation