What is a government department doing endorsing the idea that traditions and myths count as evidence?… Read the rest
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.
Curtis White on The Middle Mind
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBook reviews in glossy magazines, worshipful interviewers on public radio and tv, ‘annoying’ as the ultimate condemnation…… Read the rest
Stanley Fish Defends Postmodernism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTerrorists, freedom fighters, fundamentalists, postcolonialism, the Enlightenment – all contested, as usual. … Read the rest
Dawkins on Darwin’s Genetics
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Sexual selection really is a good candidate for explaining a great deal about the unique evolution of our species.’… Read the rest
Webster Reviews Fisher and Greenberg
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘the findings were nicely congruent with the hypothesis’ – yes, they always are, that’s the problem.… Read the rest
Out of Islam
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… Read the rest
Not What You Think but How You Think
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘He was very easily irritated by anything bogus, anything facile or hypocritical.’… Read the rest
Samantha Power on genocide and failures to prevent it.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy did it take the US Senate forty years to ratify the UN Genocide Convention?… Read the rest
Memory and trauma
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSally Satel looks at the way we construct narratives about our symptoms.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt on Multiculturalism and Women.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘A Russian, an Italian, could not justify beating his wife to death by referring to the customs of dear old Moscow or Calabria’… Read the rest
‘Independent’ Peer Review
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… Read the rest
Paul Kurtz on Belief
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest
Multicultural Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest
Richard Dawkins Karate-chops Fashionable Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDawkins on fun and games.… Read the rest
Thomas Kuhn Examined
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe shift from logic to history, and the perennial appeal of irrationalist programs.… Read the rest
Durkheim on Religion
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe way to ‘reject the insipid relativism of the tabula rasa without denying or ignoring the freedom and variability of individual human beings and their cultures.’… Read the rest
Why Lit-crits want economists to sound more like lit-crits.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPaul Krugman draws an interesting parallel with Stephen Jay Gould.… Read the rest
Historic Conference in Chicago March 2000
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonConference brought Armenian
and Turkish scholars together for the first time to discuss the 1915 genocide.… Read the rest
More Than 500 Arguments for the Existence of God
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
(1) Check out that tree. Isn’t it pretty?
(2) Therefore, God exists.… Read the rest
Rigoberta Menchu
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Whenever you’re told that you shouldn’t look into something, for some people, that is a very clear directive that you ought to keep looking.’… Read the rest