Russell Blackford has a post arguing that tone is important, even if a lot of the things people say about tone are foolish: For these sorts of reasons, intelligent discussion of tone is always in order. The problem is likely to be that a lot of discussion of tone is just not very intelligent – [...]
Category Archives: dishonesty
Evangelicals and the death of Antony Flew
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 20, 2010
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Earlier this month (April 8th, to be exact), Antony Flew died. The best thing I’ve seen on his death is by Keith Parsons: I rank Flew as second only to Bertrand Russell as a writer of pellucid, witty, and penetrating philosophical prose, and Flew’s treatment of the theistic arguments was far deeper and more rigorous [...]
Contempt for philosophy breeds contempt for thinking
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 19, 2010
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Chris Mooney has been promoting a post by Scienceblogger Chad Orzel on the science/religion issue, declaring “Orzel nails it.” I think Orzel’s piece is interesting for an entirely different reason: it showcases the dangers of being ignorant and disdainful of philosophy. Orzel’s basically says that he agrees science and religion are incompatible, but he’ll declare [...]
Why religion is growing in Africa
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 19, 2009
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Fear and greed says PZ. One of the more important PZ posts I’ve read.
Review: Unscientific America
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 12, 2009
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Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum are liars, with a severely warped moral compas, and I would rather the fundamentalist approach to science win out in America, than that their approach to science win. That’s my dead-serious verdict after finally reading their book Unscientific America, a book published last July attempting to explain how to improve [...]