1. An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1998
   Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality. What characterises today's generation of historians, sociologists and philosophers of science is a relentlessly relativist outlook. Scientists' claim to objectivity, they believe, is mere ideology. They deny the idea that science is in any way universal and argue instead scientific knowledge is relative to the societies or cultures that produce them. The orthodoxy within science studies is that the claim to objectivity and rationality is a 'Eurocentric' viewpoint. Malik argues that these arguments are both irrational and counterproductive. The relativist arguments erase the distinction between science and superstition, between reason and unreason, and make it much more difficult to have an informed debate about science and society.
   
2. The Common Good
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   
3. Down To Earth People
   Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
   
4. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   
5. Intellectual Impostures (Review)
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1998
   
6. Multiculturalism or World Culture?
   On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2000
   Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the values associated with intensive capitalist accumulation as "white male", so "non-white" peoples such as Japanese or Koreans who currently embody those values with a greater fervour than most "whites" are ignored.
   
7. The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye’s Demolition of Derrida
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1993
   A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi psychiatry journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
   
8. News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   
9. Rationality/Science
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1995
   
10. Strange Fruit
    Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the differences to biology, anti-racists attribute them to deep-rooted cultural traditions which are typically seen as inherent in the group. Malik argues that these positions are actually quite similar, and makes the case that racism and racial inequality are best combatted by focusing not on our differences but on what unites us. Malik also strongly criticizes the cultural relativism of many anti-racists, and their increasing tendency to reject science as some kind of western imperialist conspiracy to oppress the rest of the world.
    
11. Telling the Truth
    Socialist Register 2006
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2005
    

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