WHEE discounted again

McGrath on peer review, and a response
From: darwiniana.com
Post Date: 2007-12-07 15:17:43

James McGrath at Exploring Our Matrix, and also in comment here. I have no general animus against peer review, and fields such as Global Warming I would tend to applaud the system of interactive checks by scientists. But, I fear, that just doesn’t work in evolutionary theory. There is no standard of science by which to measure a theory of evolution, for the simple reason that noone has a good one. You can adopt Darwin’s inadequate theory, and make it standard, and then conduct peer r...

Hucklebird, get to work on The Parallax View
From: darwiniana.com
Post Date: 2007-12-07 15:08:50

Hucklebird, you are the Hegelian triad expert, check out Zizek’s book for me. I fear you are a mystic reactionary, otherwise, ‘dialectical materialism’ might be just your stomping grounds, all those triads getting us past Kantian dualisms, and driving evolution in nature. A full report, please…. ...

Slavoj Zizek and Hegelian brain damage
From: darwiniana.com
Post Date: 2007-12-07 15:00:58

Looking through: The Parallax View (Short Circuits) (Hardcover). by Slavoj Zizek (Author) After yesterday’s post on Marxism: http://darwiniana.com/2007/12/06/ok-lets-talk-firing-squadsthe-brain-dead-left/, I came across Zizek’s work, The Parallax View. I have to admit I picked up this book with a sour attitude, in no mood for any more Marxist bullshit, hence I am unlikely to consider it fairly. Actually, the book is morbidly interesting in its type, but finall...