Nigerian State Segregates Travel *

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‘You have no excuse to carry a woman who is neither your wife nor your mother on a motorcycle.’… Read the rest



Kenan Malik’s Debate with Steve Fuller *

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If there are two cultures involved in the Sokal affair they are shoddy scholarship on the one side and an attempt at rational thought on the other. … Read the rest



So where are these powerful arguments? *

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Alister McGrath says Richard Dawkins is a crude religious propagandist… Read the rest



The Pope is also a head of state, and that’s bad *

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The Vatican’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde gender values in multilateral forums as well… Read the rest



Mediawatchwatch interviews Stephen Green of ‘Christian Voice’ *

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Other writings are unashamed myth, but not the Bible.… Read the rest



Natural History on ‘Intelligent Design’ *

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Articles by Forrest, Scott, Miller, Pennock, Behe, Dembski, more.… Read the rest



Scott McLemee does a close reading of ‘Battlefield Earth’ *

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Terl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.… Read the rest



The great Kabbalah con *

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An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic… Read the rest



Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals *

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Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’… Read the rest



Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan *

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Many faculty members worried about insertion of undefined political notion ‘cultural competency’ into every aspect of administration, teaching and performance evaluation… Read the rest



Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen on Juliet Mitchell *

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There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.… Read the rest



How Fabrications Differ from a Lie *

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‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.… Read the rest



Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’ *

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Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.… Read the rest



Simon Blackburn interview *

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On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume… Read the rest



Silence over Afghan women’s rights *

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Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten… Read the rest



Evidence and persuasion *

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Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaireRead the rest



Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day *

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Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’… Read the rest



Human Rights Watch on the religious revival *

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Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest



Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders *

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Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest



Polio outbreak in Indonesia *

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Officials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot… Read the rest