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| Friday 30 October 2009 |
Farewell, Norman Levitt
With the passing of Norman Levitt, a rigorous defender of scientific truth against the relativism and cowardice of the ‘academic left’, we have lost a modern Enlightenment hero.
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| Friday 11 September 2009 |
A downturn in imaginative thinking
A new book’s claim that people’s psychology brings about economic downturns is both economically vulgar and politically unconvincing.
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| Tuesday 8 September 2009 |
Why we shouldn’t create pain-free animals
A proposal to genetically modify farm animals so that they don’t feel pain is practically and morally misguided.
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| Friday 31 July 2009 |
A downturn in imaginative thinking
A new book claims that people’s psychology and ‘animal spirits’ bring about economic downturns. It’s an argument that is both economically vulgar and politically unconvincing.
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| Thursday 23 July 2009 |
Birth pains are nothing to celebrate
It was degenerate feminists, not ignorant men, who first argued that childbirth should be a painful rite of passage.
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| Thursday 11 June 2009 |
Is the digital age
killing compassion?
One has to marvel at the megalomania of scientists who slam all of modern culture on the basis of their tiny studies.
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| Wednesday 6 May 2009 |
Brain dysfunction did not cause the recession
Ahead of a major conference, The Battle for the Economy, Stuart Derbyshire declares war on ‘behavioural economics’.
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| Wednesday 29 April 2009 |
Give it a rest: fish do not feel pain
Yet another research project claims to show that fish are capable of feeling pain. It’s as wrongheaded as all the rest.
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| Tuesday 10 March 2009 |
Still squeamish about stem cells
Obama’s extension of federal funding to stem-cell research is good news. But Bush was not the only barrier to progress.
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| Friday 27 February 2009 |
Sex, war and stupidity
In labelling Churchill as ‘ape-like’ and claiming that Timothy McVeigh was driven by ‘primate’ instincts, the authors of Sex and War hope to prove that war is an evolutionary trait. Their thesis is mind-blowingly dumb.
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| Tuesday 20 January 2009 |
A fishy campaign
PETA’s attempt to rebrand fish as ‘sea kittens’ takes anthropomorphism to an unfathomable new low.
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| Monday 29 December 2008 |
There’s more to humans than biological burps
Through vivid explorations of tears, snot, earwax and blushing, Ray Tallis’ brilliant new book shows us that ‘being human’ is not a simple stimulus-response thing – it is shaped by history, thought, time and space.
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| Thursday 20 November 2008 |
Let’s blow away all the barriers to stem-cell science
The windpipe transplant shows the potential of stem-cell medicine and the collaborative genius of human beings. We should build on it.
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| Friday 3 October 2008 |
Who’s afraid of xenotransplantation?
Using pig organs in humans could save thousands of lives. So why is Britain driving research away?
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| Tuesday 26 August 2008 |
Humans are more important than animals
When it comes to using animals in research, the only moral judgement should be: does it benefit humankind?
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| Friday 27 June 2008 |
How do we break free of the rules of biology?
Chris Fernyhough has written a sometimes touching book on his daughter’s mental development in the first three years. But he fails to get to the heart of the infant’s transition from biological machine to human agent.
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| Friday 30 May 2008 |
Jim Crow dressed up in multicultural drag
It’s more than 50 years since the landmark Brown case challenged the segregation of blacks and whites in American schools. Yet under the yoke of multiculturalism, new, liberal-justified forms of segregation are rife.
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| Thursday 15 May 2008 |
Abortion: get out the vote
An academic offers tips on how you can pressure your MP to turn up to Tuesday’s vote in parliament and defend the 24-week limit.
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| Friday 18 April 2008 |
A catfight over consciousness
Ignoring all the piss and vinegar about Ted Honderich and his difficult personality, is his book On Consciousness any good? Well, yes and no.
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| Friday 28 March 2008 |
Honderich: the thinking man’s unthinking man?
Ignoring all the piss and vinegar about philosopher Ted Honderich – who has been labelled by fellow academics as rambling, bumbling, bombastic, hateful and stupid – is his book On Consciousness actually any good? Well, yes and no.
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