Harvard professor Marc Hauser (author of Moral Minds), about whom I blogged last July, has taken a leave of absence from his post at Harvard while the university looks into questions about the data backing up papers of his, dating back to the mid 90s at least.
Siris is all over the latest of PZ Myers’ increasingly empty critiques of philosophical positions he dislikes. Worth quoting: There was a time when he was a fairly sharp commentator, and would never have made the amateurish and in some cases, frankly, dimwitted maneuvers that he makes here. But reason is in great measure social,… Continue reading On Bad Company
Here’s the new trailer for the Roland Joffe film about Josemaria Escriva and the Spanish Civil War. My friend and former classmate John Wauck, who works in Rome now at the University of Santa Croce, was an advisor on the film.
I’m still cracking up over this post by Peter Steinfels. Siris is finding the paperwork a major chore in the Texan August (and I don’t blame him). John Pieret dope slaps Bruce Chapman. Steve Matheson discusses Developmental Buffering. Lab Rat discusses models for the evolution of bacterial resistance. And Christopher Hitchens reflects on his current… Continue reading Linkables
John (catshark) Pieret on Jerry Coyne’s latest deep thoughts.
