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Michael Ruse

Democracy and Pseudo-Science

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Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy When I was thirteen, my mother died suddenly.  On the rebound, my father married again to a German woman, whose family were great enthusiasts for the thinking of the Croatian-born seer and polymath, Rudolf Steiner.  To that point, I had never heard of Steiner (my family, English, were Quakers), but in…

Anti-Vaxxers And The Covid Crisis: The Sorry Story Of The Pernicious Influence Of A Pseudo-Science

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In the fall of 2014, I spent the semester at a research unit, connected to the university, in Stellenbosch in South Africa.  The town is right in the middle of the wine-growing area and truly competes for the most beautiful place on Earth. I had intended to work on a book on global warming, but discovered…