Author: Ophelia Benson

You can be certain and be wrong.

Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.

Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.

We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’

Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?

Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.

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

Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.

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

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

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

Eerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.

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

NAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.

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

‘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.’

Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.

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

‘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?’