Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.… Read the rest

‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.… Read the rest

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

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

‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest

‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest

Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.… Read the rest

The facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.… Read the rest

NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.… Read the rest

NAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.… Read the rest

‘Whenever you’re told that you shouldn’t look into something, for some people, that is a very clear directive that you ought to keep looking.’… Read the rest

Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest

‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… Read the rest

‘What could be more foolish than to base one’s entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at that time, now appear to be quite erroneous?’… Read the rest

Azam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest

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

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

‘We are born of primordial slime, not at the hands of a benevolent and concerned supreme being who lovingly crafted us from clay.’… Read the rest

Deniers distort history in order to promote antisemitism and white supremacy.… Read the rest