Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Jamie Palmer
· 13 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 727 posts
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
The Great Diversity Scam
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Stephen Beard
· 3 min read
The Bermuda Triangle of Science
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
Brian Boutwell
· 9 min read
How To Have An Opinion Worth Hearing
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Female Genital Cutting: Harm, Human Rights and the Possibility of a Sex-Neutral Approach
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
Robert Darby
· 16 min read
The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.
Toni Airaksinen
· 5 min read
Music and Language, Cultural Identity and Fame
Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries.
Geoffrey Lehmann
· 20 min read
Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education
A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called “The Energy Show”.
Emma C Williams
· 7 min read
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
Brian D Earp
· 8 min read
Breaking Up With Libertarianism
After discovering the work of Dr Williams, I parked myself under his learning tree and began to soak up as much information as I could.
William Blake
· 12 min read
Traitors to the Human Mind
As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.
Jamie Palmer
· 10 min read
The Disinviting of Dawkins
When the moment arose, everyone was appalled by what he had to say and, as I recall, he quit his degree shortly after.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Unscrambling the Second Law of Thermodynamics
All these specific conditions (loud volume, correct support, a vowel that works) must be met in order to sing a high note.
Brendon Brewer
· 15 min read
Springtime for Demagogues
The problem isn’t that that is completely unwarranted, it might be, it might not be. The problem is that shielding us from the truth is utterly counter-productive.
David Paxton
· 10 min read