Many greens are hostile to science and technology, which are needed in responses to climate change.… Read the rest
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Jesus and Mo Take Moses to Meet the Barmaid 
Nov 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He’s an outgoing guy.… Read the rest
Bad Science on a Pricey Cure for Dyslexia
Nov 4th, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What was wrong with the paper? Quite a few things.… Read the rest
On Hannah Arendt
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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Seyla Benhabib, Michael Hardt, Martin Jay, Julia Neuberger, Ilan Pappe, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, others.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Richardson’s William James
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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James once described the history of philosophy as the record of a ‘certain clash of human temperaments.’… Read the rest
Alan Boyle on Allen Esterson on Mileva Marić
Nov 4th, 2006 |
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The evidence and historical documentation are not there.… Read the rest
Who did Einstein’s Mathematics?: A Response to Troemel-Ploetz
Nov 4th, 2006 | By Allen EstersonIn an article in Time magazine in July 2006 Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute and former chairman of CNN, stated that Einstein’s first wife Mileva Marić was a “Serbian physicist who had helped him with the math of his 1905 [special relativity] paper”[1]
From the unequivocal way that this information was presented by Isaacson, readers would be forgiven for assuming that this a straightforward factual statement. Yet this is far from the case. For a start, the mathematics in the 1905 relativity paper was quite elementary: as Jürgen Renn, an editor of the Albert Einstein Collected Papers, observes, “If he had needed help with that kind of mathematics, he would have ended there.”[2] Then there is the … Read the rest
Ivory-bill Sightings Reported in Florida
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No photos, but repeated sightings, suggestive physical evidence.… Read the rest
British Male Elite Plots to Unveil Assertive Women
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Hysterical vigilantes against assertive women who wish to maintain their self-identity in public spaces.… Read the rest
Visiting With Some Atheists
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If you become an atheist, do you have to start preaching?… Read the rest
Politicians Support Elkin Deligöz
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
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Parliamentarian received death threats after urging Muslim women in Germany to take off headscarves.… Read the rest
Ocean Fish Will be Gone in 50 Years
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries; the rate of decline is accelerating.… Read the rest
‘Equality Now’ Campaign Against FGM
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Many grassroots organizations are fighting within their own tradition and culture to eradicate FGM.… Read the rest
Ethiopian Reaction to FGM Sentence
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The punishment is appropriate,’ said Bulti Gueteema, of the Ethiopian Ministry of Women’s Affairs.… Read the rest
Evangelist Ted Haggard Resigns
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Strong opponent of same-sex unions said to have had three-year sexual relationship with male prostitute. … Read the rest
Kent Hovind Convicted of Tax Fraud
Nov 3rd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Pensacola evangelist founded and runs Dinosaur Adventure Land and Creative Science Evangelism.… Read the rest
Man Sentenced to Prison for FGM of Daughter
Nov 2nd, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Khalid Adem found guilty of aggravated battery and cruelty to children by a Georgia court. … Read the rest
Scott McLemee on Lawrence Levine
Nov 2nd, 2006 |
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He looked at the diversity of cultural traditions making up American life. … Read the rest
Swinburne Recycled
Nov 2nd, 2006 12:15 am | By Ophelia BensonWe’ve been having this lively discussion of Swinburne on suffering, so I thought I’d temporarily re-post this old comment from last June.
Richard Swinburne is interesting. I’ve said so before. So has Mark Fournier at Tachyphrenia. And now it’s time to say it some more. Because the things Swinburne says here are truly revolting, and yet they are, of course, what you get if you try to reconcile the omnipotent omnibenevolent God with the existence and abundance of suffering in the world – just what Darwin couldn’t manage to reconcile himself to. There’s an irony of sorts in the fact that it’s Swinburne’s view that is considered by many – by surprisingly many – to be the ‘devout’ … Read the rest
John Gray on Michael Burleigh on Secularism
Nov 1st, 2006 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Much of the book is a laboured defence of the Vatican against charges of complicity with Nazism.… Read the rest
