Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’
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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Nigerian State Segregates Travel
‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’
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WAF Replies to Tariq Modood
Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.
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Hitchens on ‘Mother Teresa’
Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…
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Daughters of France, Daughters of Allah
Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.
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Simon Blackburn on Richard Rorty
Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke
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Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’
‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’
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Evidence and persuasion
Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire
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Behe and Intelligent Design
Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.
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The Robbers Cave Experiment
A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation
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Chris Mooney on Tom Bethell
There’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.
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Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school.
We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’
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Get an MA in astrology.
A new and exciting advance for the academic world.
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The Guardian profiles E O Wilson
Ants, pheromones, genes, biodiversity, ecological footprints, consilience.
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The hegemony of social constructionism
Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.
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Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten
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Behe and Intelligent Design
Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.
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On the Robbers Cave Experiment
Derogation of the out-group was expressed in word and deed.
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The Forward March Of Women Halted?
A commitment to women’s equality has eroded and strong opposition to this commitment has emerged.
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The Catcher in the Rye is a crap book.
Execrable prose and jejune narcissism – not a good combination.