Scientism

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Not with a bang, but a whimper

Michael Cook | 31 May 2013 |

tags: scientism, stem cells

After more than a decade of research on embryonic stem cells, scientists are quietly moving on to greener pastures.

Exposing scientism

John G. West | 29 January 2013 |

tags: C.S. Lewis, science, scientism

C.S. Lewis foresaw that science would be manipulated at the expense of humanity, says the editor of a new collection of essays about him.

The World Turned Upside Down

Francis Phillips | 27 July 2010 |

tags: Enlightenment, Israel, scientism

In an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally, contends a leading British journalist

Free will and fruit flies

William E. Carroll | 28 April 2010 |

tags: free will, philosophy, scientism

If we are just a sack of chemical reactions and have no free will, shouldn't we change our legal system accordingly?

Should we clone Neanderthals?

Michael Cook | 23 February 2010 |

tags: cloning, scientism

Forget the jokes. A Harvard professor is serious.

What science knows and how it knows it

Richard Umbers | 17 December 2009 |

tags: post-modernism, science, scientism

A defence of rationality and common sense from an Australian mathematician is a must-read as an antidote to post-modernist scepticism.