My first question upon reading about how non-nutbar home schoolers are having trouble getting decent science books for their kids is this: Why are you giving a single dime to the Christian right? How could you not know that when you buy a science textbook from a “Christian” publisher, it’s…
Did a couple of pioneering obstetricians secretly murder dozens of pregnant women in the name of science? Lindsay makes the compelling case for “Not bloody likely”. These kinds of revisionist histories that postulate all sorts of fantastical theories without much evidence are all over the place, with some of the…
At the airport, I spied the paperback version of the atheist polemic that caused so much grief that I haven’t read yet: The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I’ll admit; I get influenced by blurbs, and this book had a gazillion really great ones. And even though I’m a hardline…