The Lippard Blog

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...

It has now been demonstrated, as no surprise to skeptics, that Rom Houben was not communicating via facilitated communication, a discredited...

From CNN : A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a lottery millionaire whose body was fo...

One of the regular critics of creationism on the Usenet talk.origins newsgroup (where the wonderful Talk Origins Archive FAQs were original...

After a multi-month hiatus, the ApostAZ podcast returns: Episode 019 Atheism and Spooky Bullshite in Phoenix! Go to meetup.com/phoenix-ath...

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

I recently posted this at the Phoenix Atheists Meetup group's discussion forum in a thread titled "atheism v. agnosticism," a...