Education Dicks, niceness and evil: a rant 29 Aug 2010 The ongoing blogbattle over whether to be nice or a dick skeptic continues. Phil Plait gave a speech suggesting that niceness works better. There was blowback, of course, which he discusses here and here. The Great Tone Debate seems to resolve down to those who think that minds are changed… Read More
Evolution Natural selection fails with Man – W. R. Greg 12 Feb 2009 In the Descent of Man, Darwin cites a paper published about 5 years earlier by W. R. Greg, which argues that natural selection is not active among humans (or, as the convention had it then, “Man”). It is most interesting that he does, because Greg is the intellectual father of… Read More
What’s depressing is that under the spick and span Rudd government, exactly the same kind of farce can easily recur. They haven’t done a thing to restore the civil rights trampled on by the unlamented Howard.