‘John does know more mathematics, more physics and more engineering than the average biologist. But he also knows more biology than the average biologist.’… Read the rest
Urvashi Butalia on ‘honour’ killing.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWomen’s groups demand that murderers be treated according to laws of the land and not be allowed to find shelter behind the curtain of ‘culture’. … Read the rest
Melvin Konner takes on the opponents of sociobiology.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBiologists who had done no primary research in human sciences nevertheless issued anathemas on it.… Read the rest
A Designer Universe?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhat a coincidence that we’re here and not on that nasty Pluto.… Read the rest
Mary Lefkowitz on Distortions of History
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe has his view and you have yours and they have theirs. So it goes.… Read the rest
Paul Gross on the Politicization of Science Education
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAttempts to reshape science classes delegitimize science as an especially trustworthy form of knowledge and promote “other ways of knowing” instead. … Read the rest
Therapeutic Touch
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Skeptical Dictionary looks at energy medicine, the flow of chi or prana, auras, chakras…… Read the rest
Richard Dawkins considers Fashionable Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt’s so uncool to think there is a real world.… Read the rest
Fifteen Answers to Creationist Nonsense
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSome antievolutionists admit that they intend for intelligent-design theory to serve as a “wedge” for reopening science classrooms to discussions of God. … Read the rest
Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen cultures are organized around controlling and using women, is blanket respect for Other cultures such a good idea?… 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
‘Independent’ Peer Review
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe Bush administration wants scientists it can trust.… 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
Byatt Reviews Browne’s Darwin Biography
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘There has been a tendency among Marxist, or marxisant, critics of Darwin, and social Darwinism, to criticise, or ridicule, the theory as a simple product of the society in which it was developed.’… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Orwell
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonProse as a window-pane opens onto a reality that is solidly and visibly ‘out there.’… 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
Whither Irony?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘In the clamorous and bloodstained souk of the world…people still go unrepentantly on looking out for good lives’… Read the rest
Washington, Jefferson and slavery.
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWashington freed his slaves in his will, Jefferson did not. The reasons of each tell us much about American history.… Read the rest
Limitations of Political Reporting
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonInvestors need to know the truth, but voters don’t. Or not.… Read the rest
Democracy and its Global Roots
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Developments take place in a world linked by ideas rather than by race.’… Read the rest