1. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

... cherry-picked phrases. The teachers have a divine spiritual task and have been karmically chosen; parents are superfluous. The schools argue that anthroposophy isn’t taught to the children; but...

2. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...t will do no harm. The best self-help books are like good parents, dispensing common sense. Many more are like superfluous consultants, mystifying the obvious in jargon and italics to justify their jo...

3. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...wo electron-type particles and two more neutrinos. As far as life is concerned, these particles are completely superfluous. All of the processes we observe in the everyday workings of the universe wou...