Category: Culture & Ethics
“Materialism” Means More than Greed
For those who deplore materialism in science, it is useful to consider that the lack of a sense of the spiritual in people’s lives often finds its replacement in the pursuit of status and things.
For Pinker’s Insufferable Scientism, a Satisfying Triple Smackdown
His essay in the New Republic, seeking to appropriate the word "scientism" as designating a good thing, wins the prize for the most off-putting, condescending title of the year.
Wesley Smith on the “Anti-Science Canard”
“The point of the slur is to avoid actual discourse by branding an intellectual opponent as irrational, theocratic, and/or reactionary.”
All Figured Out: How Human Monogamy Evolved
Ladies, if you feel secure in your marriage, you can go ahead and thank an ancient heritage from our ancestral past.
Bill Nye and Science Lies
Imagine someone called "The Democracy Guy" or "The Medicine Guy" who rendered judgments on a subject he hadn’t fairly studied and did not accurately represent.