Anti-science is a revolt wherein second-rate scholarship is parlayed into tenured professorships and book contracts.
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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Eagleton on Spivak
Be as obscurantist as you can get away with, decently or indecently.
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SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism
The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!
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Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation
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Robert Frost’s ‘Design’
‘I found a dimpled spider, fat and white…’
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Ramin Jahanbegloo on a philosophy of tolerance
Attentiveness towards others and openness towards truth is still not a matter of common sense in some religious and political cultures.
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Stalking the wild taboo
The Seville Statement on Violence was written in the language of sociopolitical activism, not that of science.
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Richard Wolin on Derrida
‘Deconstruction was perceived, not unjustly, as part and parcel of an elitist, self-enclosed, mandarin academic idiom.’
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Index to Creationist Claims
Rebuttals and references from the scientific community to any and all of the various creationist claims.
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The Things We Forgot to Remember
OU/Radio 4 series on which bits of history we remember and which we don’t
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Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind
Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.
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Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’
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Crews Replies to Plantinga on ID
Creationists sense they’re playing a losing game.
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Witch-hunts in Orissa
When someone gets ill, women are punished.
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Nurse gang raped for doing her job
She refused to perform illegal abortions, so three men assaulted her
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As Miss World Turns
The war between religious fanaticism and secular modernity is fought over women’s bodies.
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What is ‘liberal orthodoxy’?
Graham Larkin answers questions from New York Sun
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15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Scientific American provides useful tool
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Ann Cryer: Forced marriages must end
Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.
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The great Kabbalah con
An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic
