Author: Ophelia Benson

‘The protection built into Theory…is composed of layer on layer of ignorance.’

Deniers distort history in order to promote antisemitism and white supremacy.

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

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

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

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

‘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?’

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

Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.

‘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.’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Militant Islam and militant Christian fundamentalism are indeed related.

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

One can be controversial and heretical and still be wrong.