‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’
Month: April 2010
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Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other.
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So where are these powerful arguments?
Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist
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The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well
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Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Other writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.
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Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Articles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.
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Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’
Terl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.
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The great Kabbalah con
An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic
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Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’
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Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation
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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell
There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.
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How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.
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Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.
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Simon Blackburn interview
On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume
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Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten
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Evidence and persuasion
Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire
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Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day
Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’
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Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights
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Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world.
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Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot
