When Prince Charles uses terms such as ‘integrated therapy’ he is following the lead of creationists who hide under the term ‘intelligent design.’… Read the rest
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Prince of Wales joins ‘detox’ fraud
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The word detox has no agreed meaning. It is a marketing word, designed to separate the gullible from their money… Read the rest
IHEU and CFI defend the rights of women
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
IHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the UN HRC.… Read the rest
IHEU against OIC censorship at the UN
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
EU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights… Read the rest
Nepotistic succession in the political class
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nepotism diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen.… Read the rest
The Tragic Human Cost of Political Idiocy and AIDS Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The desperate consequences of delusional thinking about medicine…when the deluded are the people running the country.… Read the rest
Alan Wolfe admires Rick Warren
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because he tells a Jewish woman she will go to hell.… Read the rest
Scientist dismisses ‘detox’ diets
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Detox-based diets can include the use of tablets, socks, body wraps, diets, eating nettle root extract or drinking herbal infusions or “oxygenated” water.… Read the rest
The dangers of too much ‘detox’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The evidence supporting the whole ‘hydration industry’ is flawed. … Read the rest
Belief in hell
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
79.7% in Ireland, 74.6% in the US, 58.3% in the UK.… Read the rest
Brad DeLong on books as people
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘As long as I think of these as “texts,” they are dry and boring. But there is a key to making them exciting: to remember that they are not texts: they are people–people urgently trying to talk to me, to tell me something very important that they think I desperately need to know.’… Read the rest
LRA accused of selling food aid
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
ICC prosecutor says the rebels are using the money they make to rearm.… Read the rest
Flora Terah: beaten and tortured for running for office
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘In Kenya, and especially in the Ameru community I belong to, women are not supposed to get leadership positions.’… Read the rest
‘Honour’ killing rewarded with prize of 3 girls
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Guy kills wife, gets 3 underage girls in ‘compensation.’… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt talks to Der Spiegel
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Feminism created a new normal. … Read the rest
Charles Murray is Deeply in Love With Sarah Palin
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.… Read the rest
Katha Pollitt on Palin the Affirmative Action Babe
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There’s the fun of watching conservative pundits scramble to deny the obvious.… Read the rest
Dick Taverne rebukes Prince Charles
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A democratic country cannot tolerate a monarch whose views command notice not because of expertise, but because of his birth.… Read the rest
Saudi Arabia: more female graduates, no more jobs.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Only 16% of Saudi women work, mostly teaching in segregated classrooms.… Read the rest
Swimming in Saudi Arabia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Foreign woman demands to use pool in international hotel, succeeds.… Read the rest
