Michael Cook

Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. He also writes a bioethics column for Australasian Science and contributes occasional op-ed pieces to newspapers and websites in the US, UK and Australia.

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Is intelligent design really science?

23 Nov 2005 |

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Is intelligent design really science? Or is it a kind of disguised creationism? MercatorNet interviews a philosopher who has been tracking the debate.





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Jurassic theories

21 Oct 2005 |

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An expert on dinosaurs claims to have delivered a killer blow to the credentials of religion by examining international health statistics. It's not very convincing.





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Don?t get stuck on stupid, media

15 Oct 2005 |

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Why did a credulous American media believe the grim fairy tales of murder, rape and pillage in New Orleans even though there was precious little evidence for them?





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New Age alchemist turns words into money

29 Sep 2005 |

tags: New Age

The best-selling fable The Alchemist contains the quintessence of Paulo Coelho's philosophy.





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Cashing in on the rage for New Age

29 Sep 2005 |

tags: New Age

The ideas of New Age gurus are worse than twaddle about crystals and dolphins: they’re appallingly self-centred. Take Paulo Coelho's latest novel, for instance.





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Forgetting the Holocaust

23 Sep 2005 |

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The death this month of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal reminds us that we are still in danger of forgetting about the lessons of the Holocaust.





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Stemming the tide of internet porn

3 Sep 2005 |

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It's commonly thought that filtering objectionable sites and email from the internet is virtually impossible. It's not true: we just have to try.





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Rediscovering the lost art of parenting

26 Aug 2005 |

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Parenting is about more than just good behaviour, says Sydney headmaster and author Andrew Mullins. It's about the hard slog of teaching virtues.





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The battle over the Crusades

19 Aug 2005 |

tags: Crusades

The modern world would have been completely different without the Crusades, says historian Thomas Madden in a MercatorNet interview.





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The death of Theory

12 Aug 2005 |

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For 25 years or more, the humanities have been in thrall to post-modernist Theory. Now its empire seems to be breaking up.





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