[2] Her books and website aim to defend objectivity and scientific truth against what she sees as threats to rational thinking posed by religious fundamentalism, pseudoscience, wishful thinking, postmodernism, relativism, and "the tendency of the political Left to subjugate the rational assessment of truth-claims to the demands of a variety of pre-existing political and moral frameworks".

"[4] Benson was born in New Jersey, and attended university in the United States, before working in a variety of jobs, including being a zookeeper for several years,[5] before becoming an author.

The Times Literary Supplement said "With wit and invention, Benson and Stangroom take us through the checklist argot that so often litters postmodern texts."

In 2006, Benson and Stangroom published Why Truth Matters,[7] which examines the "spurious claims made for creationism, Holocaust denial, misinterpretation of evolutionary biology, identity history, science as mere social construct, and other 'paradigms' that prop up the habit of shaping our findings according to what we want to find".

The book explores the oppression of women in the name of religious and cultural norms, and how these issues play out both in the community and in the political arena.