‘We’re girls, so we’re less-than-nothings, Priscilla, 17, told Le Monde after her friend Sohane’s death.… Read the rest
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Irfan Khawaja takes issue with Daniel Pipes
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMilitant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.… Read the rest
Naomi Weisstein defends the beanie hat
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWe need to know what’s out there so that we can change it.… Read the rest
Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Ramadan is a cold-blooded Islamist who believes that Islam is the cure for the malaise wrought by liberal values.’… Read the rest
Brian Appleyard’s Understanding the Present reviewed.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Scientists and their works are everywhere described in an arctic language of despair.’… Read the rest
Thomas Nagel on the Sleep of Reason
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEerily patient explanations from Sokal and Bricmont of why gibberish is gibberish.… Read the rest
Norman Geras on Minimum Utopia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe facts of widespread human privation and those of political oppression and atrocity are available to all who want them.… Read the rest
NAGPRA and the Demon-haunted World
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNAGPRA proceeds from an antievolutionary perspective grounded in fundamentalist religious belief.… Read the rest
Norman Levitt on Kennewick Man.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNAGPRA is a well-intentioned piece of legislation that has grown into a monster of anti-scientific bias.… Read the rest
Rigoberta Menchu
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘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
Multicultural Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest
Out of Islam
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… Read the rest
Francis Crick on Atheism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘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
The Impact of Religion on Children’s Education
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAzam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest
Barbara Forrest on The Wedge at Work
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHow Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream… Read the rest
Vikram Chandra on the Cult of Authenticity
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDon’t essentialize Indianness, but you’d better get the Real India right.… Read the rest
Science According to the X-Files
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘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
Holocaust Denial on Trial
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDeniers distort history in order to promote antisemitism and white supremacy.… Read the rest
Raymond Tallis on Sokal & Bricmont.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘The protection built into Theory…is composed of layer on layer of ignorance.’… Read the rest
Paul Boghossian on the Sokal Hoax.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘To concede that no one ever believes something solely because it’s true is not to deny that anything is objectively true.’… Read the rest