Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.

Human Rights Watch on the religious revival *

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Tensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest

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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

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Necla Kelek *

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Her life was bound by prohibitions: no swimming, no sports, no playing outdoors and no German friends because they were infidels. She ran away the day her father threatened her with an ax. … Read the rest

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Richard Norman on Richard Swinburne *

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If belief in God is a matter of ‘faith’ in contrast to reason, there’s nothing to distinguish it from mere wishful thinking.… Read the rest

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Dawkins interview *

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On atheism and evidence for God… Read the rest

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Pragna Patel on the Impact of Fundamentalism *

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Women in particular have borne the brunt of the new found
Hindu militancy and intolerance.… Read the rest

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Hazlitt *

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His obscurity is a depressing lesson in contemporary cultural memory.… Read the rest

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Visiting Preacher Killen *

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

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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

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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

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WAF Replies to Tariq Modood *

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Communities of interest are not born; they are made, and construct themselves, according to prevalent ideologies.… Read the rest

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Hitchens on ‘Mother Teresa’ *

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Misdiagnoses, re-using unsterile needles, no pain medications…… Read the rest

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Daughters of France, Daughters of Allah *

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Marie Brenner on forced marriage, violence, imprisonment of women.… Read the rest

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Simon Blackburn on Richard Rorty *

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Rorty has a gift for ducking and weaving and laying smoke… Read the rest

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Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’ *

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

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Evidence and persuasion *

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

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Behe and Intelligent Design *

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Irreducible complexity is a term invented by Behe. It is a myth: there is no irreducible complexity in living organisms.… Read the rest

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The Robbers Cave Experiment *

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A classic on intergroup conflict and cooperation… Read the rest

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Chris Mooney on Tom Bethell *

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There’s plenty of science hijacking in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.… Read the rest

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Tony Sewell and Lee Jasper on racism and school. *

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We need to challenge a youth culture that thinks to do well in school is ‘to act white.’… Read the rest

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