‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’… Read the rest
Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf 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. … Read the rest
So where are these powerful arguments?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist… Read the rest
The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well… Read the rest
Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOther writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.… Read the rest
Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonArticles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTerl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.… Read the rest
The great Kabbalah con
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAn organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic… Read the rest
Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLaceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’… Read the rest
Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation… Read the rest
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.… Read the rest
How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.… Read the rest
Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCreationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.… Read the rest
Simon Blackburn interview
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOn truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume… Read the rest
Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWidows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten… Read the rest
Evidence and persuasion
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRobert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire… Read the rest
Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBecause it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’… Read the rest
Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest
Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSays there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest
Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOfficials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot… Read the rest