Confusing religion and race is a clever trap the religious have laid for a worried government rightly anxious about race. … Read the rest

‘The Epistemological Situation of Astrology in Relation to the Ambivalent Fascination/Rejection of Postmodern Societies’… Read the rest

‘Among intellectuals and in the academic world, any attempt to blame Islam for women’s oppression is stamped as Orientalism.’… Read the rest

‘A superficially historicist, materialist case – our beliefs and assumptions are embedded in our practical forms of life – leads not only to a kind of epistemological idealism, but to the deeply convenient doctrine that our way of life cannot be criticised as a whole.’… Read the rest

Alternative to what? Testing and evidence?… Read the rest

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

(1) Check out that tree. Isn’t it pretty?
(2) Therefore, God exists.… Read the rest

Why do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest

‘the findings were nicely congruent with the hypothesis’ – yes, they always are, that’s the problem.… Read the rest

‘psychoanalysis, unlike a scientific theory but very much like certain religious or political movements, has essentially been immune from attacks leveled at it either from inside or outside the movement.’… Read the rest

‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest

In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest

‘John does know more mathematics, more physics and more engineering than the average biologist. But he also knows more biology than the average biologist.’… Read the rest

Women’s groups demand that murderers be treated according to laws of the land and not be allowed to find shelter behind the curtain of ‘culture’. … Read the rest

Biologists who had done no primary research in human sciences nevertheless issued anathemas on it.… Read the rest

What a coincidence that we’re here and not on that nasty Pluto.… Read the rest

He has his view and you have yours and they have theirs. So it goes.… Read the rest

Attempts to reshape science classes delegitimize science as an especially trustworthy form of knowledge and promote “other ways of knowing” instead. … Read the rest

The Skeptical Dictionary looks at energy medicine, the flow of chi or prana, auras, chakras…… Read the rest

It’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest

Some antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God. … Read the rest