The meme of religion as a "mind virus" oversimplifies how we come to our beliefs, and actively harms our attempts to encourage people to question dogma
Clichés about a quality being "in our DNA" use the terminology of genetics to depict ideas of essentialism - and in doing so, they reinforce a spurious link
In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and in doing so repeatedly presents speculative and even disproven theories as facts
Professor Christopher Essex, chair of a climate change denial charity, argues we shouldn't trust science, but presents a deeply unworkable alternative.
