Studies show brain differences, also that beliefs affect test performance.… Read the rest

Everything is dangerous, everything is toxic, there is no safe level, we’re all doomed.… Read the rest

His 1961 newspaper article ‘The Forgotten Prisoners’ changed the world for the better. … Read the rest

Islands provide the barrier to sexual intermingling that evolution needs.… Read the rest

Next, get agreement on what will do harm. Best of luck!… Read the rest

Popper’s promotion of critical spirit of scientific enquiry preferable to Kuhn’s incommensurability.… Read the rest

If not, he wasn’t doing his job and doesn’t know what it is, Stanley Fish says.… Read the rest

Where Jack Balkin suggests that Bush has hoisted Derrida by his own aporias.… Read the rest

Parochial argument turned into national banquet for right-wingers hungry for culture enemies.… Read the rest

John Marburger stated point blank, ‘Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory.’… Read the rest

Conformity is self-fulfilling, lending itself to enshrinement of the smug and the narrow.… Read the rest

Michael Tomasky: Democrats just don’t talk about fundamental ideas enough.… Read the rest

Tells cancer charity not to accept donation from ‘Jerry Springer – The Opera’ – and charity obeys.… Read the rest

On the difference between lies and bullshit, and whether there is more of the latter.… Read the rest

You can infuriate both sides and be wrong; but independence of mind is anathema to some on any side.… Read the rest

Shampoo the teddy-bear, dodge the asteroid, take holistic arboreal medicine.… Read the rest

Todd Gitlin and Michael Bérubé say they didn’t say what Horowitz says they said.… Read the rest

New freedom of press often turns into poisonous propaganda of pseudoscience. … Read the rest

French stand-up comic tries to justify his remarks; vandals daub swastikas on Muslim and Jewish sites.… Read the rest

Repeated exposure to self-interest model makes selfish behavior more likely.… Read the rest