“Two blokes walk into a pub and say they’ve discovered the secret of life. Only on February 28, 1953, they weren’t joking.” The two blokes? James Watson and Francis Crick. The secret of life? The ...

In what may be the most thorough and satisfying rout of a book in a review since Garrison Keillor unforgettably eviscerated Bernard-Henri Levy’s American travelogue, Leon Wieseltier excoriates the ...

In yesterday’s Neil deGrasse Tyson discussion over scientism, more than a few readers denied that scientism was anything other than a right-wing culture warrior concept to denigrate science that did ...

Science is good but scientism isn’t. Science looks at the cosmos objectively, indeed scientifically. Scientism doesn’t. Science, in the broadest sense of the word, derived from the Latin scientia, ...

Is science really overstepping its bounds? In at least one high-profile case, the answer is clearly yes Science: has it gone too far? This sounds like one of those vox-pop questions from The Day Today ...

A pointed essay last month by the renowned Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker reignited the academic culture wars between the sciences and humanities. In the article, Science is Not Your Enemy: An ...

This week, a bit of news that escaped the notice of many was a dust-up between Lila Rose and Dr. Phil. The topic? The definition of science and the definition of life. The exchange went something like ...

Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here. Making a game is ...

It’s easy to judge someone else’s worldview, but it’s much harder to recognise that we even have a worldview. We appreciate how pagan societies might see spirits in nature, or how monotheists see God ...

He even goes so far as to embrace the concept of scientism—a term usually used in the pejorative sense to denote when scientists overstep their knowledge with arrogance and a sense of intellectual ...