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Voodoo Science
If “voodoo science” sounds like an oxymoron, it’s because it is. Robert Park uses the term to cover all kinds of situations where the language and authority of science are invoked to lend credibility to outrageous claims. In his Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness To Fraud, he identifies three types of science that he…
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Refractions
When I received Makoto Fujimura’s Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture, I was wowed by the evident care that had gone into it’s design. It is the loveliest paperback book I’ve ever seen. I expected to find it interesting, perhaps a little challenging, and certainly full of beauty. But life intervened, first in…
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Achieving Dreams
Yesterday as I was taking Nelly to a friends house for a sleepover party, she was singing a song from Disney’s Cinderella: No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that you wish will come true. “Do you belive that?” I asked. “Yes,” she said firmly. “But it’s not…
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