If political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.
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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Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’
Other writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.
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Milt Rosenberg interviews Frederick Crews [audio]
One of the greatest living skeptics talks about such follies as psychoanalysis, ID, and contemporary literary theory
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About that Chinese encyclopedia…
Foucault cited Borges, but some of his followers cite the encyclopedia as fact.
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Politeness on ‘In Our Time’
The Spectator, coffee houses, no swords, drawing rooms, books, mixing, nobility and gentry, Boswell’s dirty breeches, and much more.
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A Conversation Between Rebecca Goldstein and Steven Pinker
Both are obsessed with realism and the pursuit of objective knowledge
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An Unbeautiful Mind
It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord.
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Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot
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The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad
The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well
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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
