The sequences used in Sheldrake’s research are not properly randomized.
Category: Flashback
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
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Denis Donoghue Reviews Illness as Metaphor.
Impatient with nuances and discriminations that would impede the march of her argument.
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Arguments from Incredulity and Gödel
‘Basically, Godel’s theorems prove the Doctrine of Original Sin, the need for the sacrament of penance, and that there is a future eternity.’
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Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world.
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So where are these powerful arguments?
Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist
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Seyran Ates on multiculturalism
I want to know, and many thousands of Muslim girls and women have a right to know, why understanding and infinite tolerance is practised with particular cultural traditions that are clearly oppressive of women.
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Profile of Susan Sontag from 1992.
‘I don’t want to express alienation. It isn’t what I feel. I’m interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.’
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Einstein Wasn’t Writing for Time
Einstein’s theory of relativity did not spawn artistic modernism and moral relativism, Time magazine to the contrary notwithstanding.
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What is Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy?
Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.
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Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights
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Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller
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.
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Necla Kelek
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.
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Richard Norman on Richard Swinburne
If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.
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Pragna Patel on the Impact of Fundamentalism
Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.
