Category: Flashback

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.

Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.

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

All those mind-bendingly transgressive thinkers now formed a sort of tradition.

Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?

There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.

How ID creationism is wedging its way into the cultural and academic mainstream.

Intellectual elites who gave up their intellectual habits and submitted to the strict rules of ideologies such as Marxism-Leninism or Islamism.

Peer-review committee said he hadn’t provided ‘adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent-design theory, was correct.’

Where did all the French feminists go?

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

Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!

Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation

‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’

Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.

The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.

‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’

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

OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t