Author: Ophelia Benson

A new and exciting advance for the academic world.

Interconnectedness, paranormal information transmission, asymmetrical evidence acceptance, aperception of contradiction, and more.

Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.

Or as Tom Lehrer put it: Fight fiercely Harvard, fight fight fight: impress them with our prowess, do.

Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.

Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.

Graham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun

The ASA said Peniel Pentecostal Church had to offer proof at least comparable with that required of makers of washing powder

Or rather, a gene for something labeled ‘spirituality.’

The anti-secularist reaction has been bad for women and children.

Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge

‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’

Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.

His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.

Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke

Ants, pheromones, genes, biodiversity, ecological footprints, consilience.

Gilligan’s teaching is in many ways reactionary, which also helps to account for its extraordinary success

Attempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham