Category: Flashback

Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights

If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other.

Her life was bound by prohibitions: no swimming, no sports, no playing outdoors and no German friends because they were infidels. She ran away the day her father threatened her with an ax.

If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.

On atheism and evidence for God

Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.

His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.

‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’

Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’

‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’

Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.

Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…

Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.

Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke

‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’

Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire

Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.

A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation

There’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.

We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’