Okay, I’ll confess some possible sour grapes here: a while back I had the bright idea of writing a New York Times op-ed on the old canard that “science, like religion, is based on faith”. That, after all, has been a misconception promulgated not infrequently in the Times‘s own columns, but one never answered in … Continue reading Tanya Luhrmann tells us for the gazillionth time that faith is HARD (but useful)

Among the Most Annoying Accommodationists (male category), we have Chris Mooney, Andrew Brown, Mark Vernon, Chris Steadman, and many others too numerous to list.  But in the female category, four people immediately spring to mind: Elaine Ecklund (constantly twists her survey data to show that scientists are, after all, more religious or “spiritual” than most … Continue reading Tanya Lurhmann strikes again; explain why it’s good to speak in tongues