‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… 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.
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 Benson
Why 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 Benson
Sally 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 Benson
The Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… Read the rest
Paul Kurtz on Belief
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest
Multicultural Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bernard Ortiz De Montellano on gibberish dressed up as education.… Read the rest
Richard Dawkins Karate-chops Fashionable Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dawkins on fun and games.… Read the rest
Thomas Kuhn Examined
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The shift from logic to history, and the perennial appeal of irrationalist programs.… Read the rest
Durkheim on Religion
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The 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 Benson
Paul Krugman draws an interesting parallel with Stephen Jay Gould.… Read the rest
Historic Conference in Chicago
March 2000
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Conference 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 Benson
TELEOLOGICAL 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