Browsing All posts tagged under »Science«

STFU Margaret Wente Part 2: Populist Boogaloo

October 30, 2011

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Oh dear. Margaret Wente went and wrote something incredibly stupid again. “Feminists have swept through geography like the avenging Furies. The stated mission of feminist geography is to disrupt ‘the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourses.’ (Translation: White male explorers are bad.) Queer geography is also hot. Geographers who aspire to make tenure are busy churning out… [Read more…]

Skepticism and Tolerance

August 19, 2011

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I am getting increasingly exhausted trying to reconcile my views with the skeptical movement. I, like most skeptics, am frustrated by the pervasiveness of such unscientific nonsense as climate change denial, high-school creationism and conspiracy theorists. I am, however, continually distressed by the constant unnecessary antagonism displayed by some of the movement’s biggest names. Case in… [Read more…]

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