Tom Bethell Concedes? Missed in all the hoopla over the new Politically Incorrect Guide to Science by American Spectator editor Tom Bethell is an interesting fact. There’s no chapter summarizing his past vaunted attacks on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Indeed, when I browsed the book recently at B&N I must confess I was almost disappointed… Continue reading

My old college buddy and now priest in Rome, John Wauck, has a new blog. John’s a priest of Opus Dei (cue sinister sounding music!). Funny, he doesn’t look like an albino monk to me…

From Publisher’s Lunch: Frey Acknowledges Mistakes on Today’s Oprah; Readers Sue “Now like many of you, I have a million little questions,” Oprah Winfrey says of James Frey at the top of today’s show–an evolution of the viewpoint she expressed in a phone call to the Larry King Show. An ABC news report says that… Continue reading

Einstein plus…? A modified theory of gravity that incorporates quantum effects can explain a trio of puzzling astronomical observations – including the wayward motion of the Pioneer spacecraft in our solar system, new studies claim. The work appears to rule out the need to invoke dark matter or another alternative gravity theory called MOND (Modified… Continue reading

Excellent piece by Frank Furedi about how the so-called rationalists in our society can be given to their own forms of irrational behavior: Superstition and prejudice should continually be countered by rational argument. But the vitriolic invective hurled at Christian believers today is symptomatic of the passions normally associated with a fanatical Inquisitor. Like the… Continue reading