Author: Ophelia Benson

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

Mark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.

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

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.

Mental disorders come and go.

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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights

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

Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire

Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten

On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume

Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.