Category: Culture & Ethics
Richard Weikart on C.S. Lewis and Science
Weikart intrigues us with a hint about his own current writing project.
Paul Johnson’s Darwin: A Review
Johnson’s work is not strictly speaking a biography; it is a historian’s assessment of modern evolutionary theory and the man behind it.
Pseudoscience, Eugenics, and Demarcation
Look here: A physicist who seems to understand the demarcation problem proceeds to demarcate “pseudoscience” on his own authority. Alex Wellerstein reviewed a book on pseudoscience that explicitly warns about the challenge of differentiating between science and pseudoscience. Wellerstein, of the Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics in Maryland, wrote in the Oct. 12 issue of Science this summary of what Michael D. Gordin said about the “demarcation problem” in his new book, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. Velikovsky’s cosmic catastrophism is, for Gordin, also a case study on the famously intractable demarcation problem, the difficulty of coming up with firm criteria for what separates science from nonscience, or Read More ›
The Tiger in Your Think Tank
The missus wouldn’t allow him on any wall or floor at home.
Genoeconomics: An Ideal Societal Genetic Recipe for Economic Prosperity?
Harvard’s Daniel Lieberman, famed for arguing that “We have evolved to need coercion,” goes against stereotype by warning against scientism.