Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
After a year of taking the New York Times at a reduced rate ($8/month), I had enough. The paper is just too woke, too mired in identity politics, and too close to HuffPo. As my monthly subscription rate would double on June 6, I called up the relevant number last night to cancel my subscription. … Continue reading Trying to cancel my New York Times subscription
It seems that many venues of the “mainstream liberal media”, like National Public Radio (NPR) and the New York Times, are devoting more space to woo: dowsing, tarot, talking to the dead, astrology, and so on. Now the MSLM has become a bit savvier about this nonsense. It often claims, as in the NPR “Life … Continue reading NPR promotes tarot
Welcome to the week’s terminus: Friday January 14, 2022. We missed a Friday the Thirteenth by one day. That was a squeaker! And it’s one of the best food days: Pastrami Sandwich Day! You can’t get ’em any bigger than at Harold’s New York Deli in Edison, New Jersey. (There’s even a bread bar to … Continue reading Friday: Hili dialogue
by Greg Mayer After Jerry posted about the recent New York Times piece touting astrology and its harmlessness, I came across some good news, and some bad news. First, the good news: some of the Times‘ writers continue to be able to exercise their critical faculties. In a piece, “#MAGA Church“, about a loony, apocalyptic … Continue reading The New York Times has an ongoing soft spot for astrology, but not everyone there has drunk the Kool-Aid
The volume of comments I have to deep-six has increased, and I’m not sure whether it’s because the moon is full or because the volume of traffic has increased over time. Either way, I thought I’d put up two that were especially striking. Here’s a comment from “The Knot Specialist” whose website is, unsurprisingly, private. … Continue reading I get emails
I’m not sure if the New York Times‘s penchant for woo has always been the case, or whether it’s new—and, additionally, whether it has something to do with the paper’s increasingly woke slant. (As we know, wokeness prizes ideology and narrative over truth.) Both Greg and I, for instance, have written about the paper’s recent … Continue reading The New York Times touts Gwyneth Paltrow and “her other ways of knowing”
