Geology The Lone Ranger vs the Big Science Consensus March 23, 2017 National Geographic retells the lonely battle of J Harlen Bretz against the scientific establishment, and what made them so pig-headed. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Scientism Fails Another Defense March 12, 2017 A physicist's latest attempt to justify scientism reveals a deplorable ignorance of history, logic and philosophy of science. CONTINUE READING
Education Darwinism Still Corrupts Culture January 22, 2017 The bad fruits of Social Darwinism are well known. Less well known are ongoing negative influences of modern Darwinian ideas on human behavior. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Big Science Blind to Its Scientism December 30, 2016 Big Science loves scientism, but the view that science is the most reliable path to knowledge suffers a fatal flaw: it is self-refuting. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Big Science Blind to Its Bias December 23, 2016 Some scientists, science reporters and journal editors could use a trip to reform school for treatment of delusions of grandeur. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Trusting Science Experts Can Be Disastrous December 5, 2016 Nobody pushes the values of science more than scientists. But trusting them doesn't always work out right. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Scientism, Heal Thyself September 8, 2016 The scientific establishment that sees itself as the paragon of rationality needs take an honest look at its human frailties. CONTINUE READING
Politics and Ethics Social Darwinism Is Back February 10, 2015 If you thought Social Darwinism went out with eugenics, look at what leaders of social policy are saying. CONTINUE READING
Education Bill Nye Admits to Propagating Evolution Via Emotional Stories January 27, 2015 National Geographic gives Bill Nye the Science Guy an open mike to make unchallenged generalities, with feeling. CONTINUE READING
Philosophy of Science Scientism Invades Politics, Morality, Religion November 9, 2014 What some consider science is really scientism, a worldview that thinks everything in human experience is reducible to scientific laws. CONTINUE READING
Education NAS Social Scientists Campaign for Consensus Indoctrination September 18, 2014 Some social scientists in the National Academy of Sciences consider it their duty to persuade the public that science is always right. CONTINUE READING
Dinosaurs Can You Shrink a Dinosaur to Make a Bird? August 3, 2014 A new research paper claims that birds emerged from a long process of dinosaur miniaturization. The news media loved it. CONTINUE READING
Media Anti-Creation Rhetoric Lacks Creativity June 8, 2014 One would think, after so many decades, the secular scientists would come up with some original arguments for combating their favorite nemesis, the creationists. CONTINUE READING
Media Cosmos TV Relies on Imagination, Not Science March 10, 2014 The first episode of the new Cosmos TV series makes it clear that imagination is its main message. CONTINUE READING
Cosmology Here Comes Cosmos Again January 15, 2014 Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos is coming back in version 2.0 with a new cast of atheists to spread the gospel of scientism. CONTINUE READING