‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’… 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.
A look at Kent Hovind’s dissertation.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest
Barbara Forrest on The Wedge at Work
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream… Read the rest
Derek Freeman Replies
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ad hominem denigration doesn’t make the case.… Read the rest
Science, Scientism, and Anti-Science in the Age of Preposterism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What is the difference between genuine inquiry and the sham and fake variety?… Read the rest
‘Without a theory, you can’t meet the people.’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Miller wonders why ‘unavailing Latinate neologisms’ convince so many people that something profound is being said.… Read the rest
Deep, unconscious anti-science bias.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Scientists are humorless nerds, and crop circles and crystals are more fun.… Read the rest
Frank Lentricchia takes it all back.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘When I grew up and became a literary critic, I learned to keep silent about the reading experiences of liberation that I’d enjoyed since childhood.’… Read the rest
Frederick Crews on Freud
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest
The Impact of Religion on Children’s Education
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Azam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest
Gangsta Rap Culture Not Such a Good Thing?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Education has been portrayed as ‘white’ – what use is it when strutting the streets?… Read the rest
Martin Gardner looks at a Center for nonsense studies.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dowsing, homeopathy, Tarot cards and their relevance to mental health professions, and, of course, alien abductions.… Read the rest
Livid Quietism on the Right
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The anti-intellectuals are finally on the side of power at its most unforgiving and voracious.’… Read the rest
What we need is a robust universalism.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘There is nothing sacrosanct about any culture or religion’s rituals. Cultures are neither monolithic, unchanging, nor without internal critique and resistance…’… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Orwell
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Prose as a window-pane opens onto a reality that is solidly and visibly ‘out there.’… Read the rest