Terl’s responsibilities include blackmailing fellow Psychlo Forest Whitaker and laughing at his own jokes.… Read the rest
All entries by this author
The great Kabbalah con
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An organisation that charges £860 for dinner, ‘healing’ water and some books in Aramaic… Read the rest
Company recalls ‘offensive’ sandals
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Laceys footwear, in London, made the decision after it received complaints from ‘the Hindu community.’… Read the rest
Oregon’s ‘Cultural Competence’ Plan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is something mysterious about the way psychoanalysis perpetually raises itself from its ashes.… Read the rest
How Fabrications Differ from a Lie
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.… Read the rest
Frederick Crews on ‘Intelligent Design’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.… Read the rest
Simon Blackburn interview
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume… Read the rest
Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Widows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten… Read the rest
Evidence and persuasion
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Robert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire… Read the rest
Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’… Read the rest
Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest
Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Says there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest
Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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
Manufactured Consensus?
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.… Read the rest
Amnesty International on ‘honour’ killings in Pakistan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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’… Read the rest
Women Against Fundamentalisms
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
WAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.… Read the rest
Ann Cryer: Forced marriages must end
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Amanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.… Read the rest
Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Greer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.… Read the rest
SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest
