Nonsense Files
Where to find everything B&W; isn't.

Freud
What are Freud's truth-claims worth?

Science and Religion
Are science and religion separate but equal? Or just separate.

Cultural Relativism
Tolerance can conflict with opposition to caste violence and other injustice.

Lee Smith on Tariq Ramadan
A quieter and gentler jihad, but still jihad.

Brian Appleyard's Understanding the Present reviewed.
The dispassion of science is 'lethal.'

Notes and Comment
Blogging Butterflies and Wheels style. And your chance to disagree with us!
Last Updated:01-09-2004

Bad Moves
Philosopher Julian Baggini's fortnightly column on bad argumentative moves.
Last Updated:22-08-2004

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Brief introductions to recommended books.

Reviews
Our book reviews section.

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We're Not Alone!
Maybe.
Date filed: 02-09-2004

Stupidest Article You'll Ever See in the CHE
Dammit, education is for jobs, not just to learn stuff!
Date filed: 02-09-2004

Panda's Thumb Critiques Creationist Paper
In great detail.
Date filed: 02-09-2004

Paper by Creationist in Real Science Journal
Someone from the Discovery Institute got one past the editors.
Date filed: 02-09-2004

Another Rhetoric Guide
Shame about the exclusively male pronouns though.
Date filed: 01-09-2004

Unveiling the Debate on Secularism and Rights
By Maryam Namazie
Maryam Namazie points out that defending secularism has nothing to do with racism.
Date filed: 01-09-2004

1893--1895--1897--1899: Or How Norman N. Holland Gave Game, Set, and Match to Frederick Crews
By Robert Wilcocks
Robert Wilcocks on Freud as Tartuffe.
Date filed: 28-08-2004

Requiem for Ateqeh Rajabi
By Maryam Namazie
'No, she was not mad.' Maryam Namazie on the execution of a 16-year-old girl in Iran.
Date filed: 24-08-2004

A 'Paradigm Shift' in Finnish Linguistic Prehistory
By Merlijn de Smit
Merlijn de Smit on the uses of epistmic relativism to prop up right-wing nationalist pseudo-history.
Date filed: 22-08-2004

Pure But Not Yet!
By Thomas R. DeGregori
Tom DeGregori points out some of the impurities in organic agriculture.
Date filed: 18-08-2004

Pacifists Praising Fascists Killing Democrats
By Phil Doré
Phil Doré on how sections of the anti-war movment romanticise Iraqi resistance.
Date filed: 17-08-2004

Fashionable Dictionary
Your guide to the language of pseudoscience and fashionable nonsense.

Woolly-Thinking Rhetoric
How to argue like a sheep. Vanquish your enemies with the help of our guide.

Quotations
'Let them speak for themselves', people often cry out (apparently). So we have.

Taboo
Are your moral intuitions rationally grounded?

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