Viewers think there is a problem here.… Read the rest
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PBS Ombudsman on Einstein’s Wife 
Dec 22nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He thinks the site should be closed. … Read the rest
Hypocrisy on the hoof
Dec 21st, 2006 9:01 pm | By Ophelia BensonDembski seems to be losing it. Or maybe he always has been, but regular observers seem to think he’s getting worse. There’s the whole fart joke, which we’re too dignified to discuss. But there’s also a little matter of really pathetic hypocrisy. To wit:
From December 18:
Since Richard Dawkins thinks he has the right to reprint my letters to him by posting them over the Internet (go here), I’ll assume the same privilege applies to me.
That’s (in the technical sense) bullshit. That ‘Since’ is misleading, as is the clause it introduces. That makes it sound as if Dembski wouldn’t dream of publishing or posting other people’s emails to him, except that Dawkins posted one of his … Read the rest
James Dobson Quotes Carol Gilligan
Dec 21st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mothers do this, fathers do that, therefore gays shouldn’t have children. Gilligan disputes conclusion.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee Heads for the MLA Convention
Dec 21st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tell him what’s interesting, not what’s hot.… Read the rest
David Irving is out of Prison
Dec 21st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
His sentence has been reduced and he is free to return to the UK on probation.… Read the rest
Review of Why Truth Matters [pdf]
Dec 21st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cites the clarity of a woodland brook.… Read the rest
Petition to Kurdistan Regional Government
Dec 21st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Article 7 would give Sharia a role in legislation. Sign petition to remove Article 7.… Read the rest
More on Carl Sagan
Dec 21st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Audio, video, reminiscences from friends, more.… Read the rest
A decade
Dec 20th, 2006 8:27 pm | By Ophelia BensonTen years. I remember that morning ten years ago when the clock radio woke me up by telling me Carl Sagan had died. It was local news; he was here, at the Hutch; we knew he was here, and why, and we exchanged worried gossip. I knew people who knew people who said things looked grim. Then I woke up to the radio that morning – I remember the fury, the no no no no, the damn and hell.
He’s a sort of parent of B&W, Carl Sagan is. As is Dawkins. The two formed a kind of pair in my mind in the mid-90s, and I was oddly pleased to see what Dawkins said of Sagan in his tribute … Read the rest
Cornell Remembers Sagan
Dec 20th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Carl was a candle in the dark. He was, quite simply, the best science educator in the world this century.’… Read the rest
Little Atoms Remembers Carl Sagan Friday
Dec 20th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Special edition commemorating Sagan on 22nd December, with Ann Druyan, Louis Friedman, more.… Read the rest
Bad Astronomy on Carl Sagan
Dec 20th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Who died ten years ago today.… Read the rest
Leakey Fights Church Campaign Against Fossils
Dec 20th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Evangelical church leaders want Kenya’s national museum to hide hominid fossils in back room.… Read the rest
R Joseph Hoffmann on the Baylor Religion Survey
Dec 20th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The study is so “extensive” that cherry-picking topics is the only way to do it the injustice it deserves.… Read the rest
Postmodernism and Shopping
Dec 20th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Modern retailers are only just getting to grips with the fragmentation of narratives.… Read the rest
Paola Cavalieri on Animals and Justice
Dec 19th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Does extending rights to animals weaken rights for humans?… Read the rest
Theo Hobson Attempts a Joke
Dec 19th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He probably thinks women aren’t funny.… Read the rest
Teacher Threatens Students With Hell
Dec 19th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘If you reject his gift of salvation, then you know where you belong. If you reject that, you belong in hell.’… Read the rest
