Category: Culture & Ethics
Jerry Coyne and Darwinian medicine
Medicine depends on actual scientific understanding of disease mechanisms and therapeutics. Speculation about evolutionary origins is of no tangible value to the medical profession.
My Reply to Ben on Atheist Ennui
Atheism drove Nietzsche mad. It drives Jerry Coyne to nap.
Steven Novella on Michelle Bachmann and Teaching Evolution
By painting a false picture of monolithic evolutionary biologists on one hand, and snake-handling young earth creationists on the other, Novella and his ilk build a straw-man to advance their obvious goal.
Ross Douthat Knows Jack (Kevorkian)
Kevorkian was the hero of the recent hagiographic film You Don’t Know Jack, starring Al Pacino as the thanatologist license-revoked doctor.
Jerry Coyne on the Banality of New Atheism
The salient characteristic of atheism is its banality.