Month: April 2010

If political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.

Dr Tahira Shahid Khan says ‘Women are considered the property of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic or religious group. The owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity’

WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.

Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.

Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.

The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!

Why does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?

Mental disorders come and go.

Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.

Some librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.

Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.

‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’

‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’

Highly controversial condition, which some doubt even exists.

Socialism is a violation of God’s creation order.

It is pretty uplifting to be a scientist-theologian, happy with the universe, confident of the ways of the Lord.

Americans just keep getting smarter and smarter

Classic Symptom of Epistemological Cretino-Leftism: Claiming that criticism, reason, rational inquiry and the pursuit of truth are “instruments of oppression”.

The desire to “question common sense” is merely the self-congratulation of someone whose “sense” is different, but no less “common.”

Scientific American provides useful tool