The Lippard Blog

Alabama and the GOP are discovering what this blog pointed out 15 years ago--if you're going to adopt a policy that embryos are full bea...

A few prominent skeptics have been arguing that science and medicine should rely upon Bayesian epistemology.  Massimo Pigliucci, in his book...

While listening to a recent Token Skeptic podcast of a Dragon*Con panel on Skepticism and Education moderated by D.J. Grothe of the James Ra...

Vocab Malone, with whom I had a blog debate about abortion and personhood last year, recently came across this comment of mine on the Point ...

Veteran software tester Abe Heward has started up a blog on software testing, which I'm sure will also include many items of epistemolog...

The prominent skeptic Martin Gardner, mathematician, philosopher, magician, and writer, died today at the age of 95 (b. October 21, 1914, d....

On the last day of my class on Scientific Revolutions and the law, one of the students in the class, Lijing Jiang, gave a presentation title...

Being modern, argues Bruno Latour in We Have Never Been Modern (1993, Harvard Univ. Press), involves drawing a sharp distinction between “n...

James Scott’s Seeing Like a State (about which I've blogged previously ) talks about how the state imposes standards in order to make f...

It's a bad misconception about evolution that it proceeds in a linear progression of one successfully evolving species after another dis...

It has been argued by many that science, politics, and religion are distinct subjects that should be kept separate, in at least one directio...

Galileo’s view of natural philosophy (science) is that it is the study of the book of nature,” “written in mathematical language” (Finocchia...

The popular view of the “science wars” of the 1990s is that it involved scientists and philosophers criticizing social scientists for making...

The success of science in the public sphere is determined not just by the quality of research but by the ability to persuade. Stephen Hilga...

There have long been worries that the mass media are producing a “dumbing down” of American political culture, reducing political understand...

Land reforms instituted in Vietnam under French rule, in India under the British, and in rural czarist Russia introduced simplified rights o...

Of late there has been a lot of debate about the nature, scope, and role of skepticism. Does skepticism imply atheism? Are "climate c...