Category: Flashback

Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.

Attempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.

Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.

Vardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.

‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’

Not for fans of the saint

You can be certain and be wrong.

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham

Mental disorders come and go.

‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.

‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation

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.