Nepotism diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen.
Category: Flashback
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.
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Fuambai Ahmadu cheers Bondo women
For protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’
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Tehran Plans to Execute Protesters
The news of death sentences sparked immediate condemnation from international human rights groups.
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Anthony Gottlieb on Gods and Gardens
If the idea of God is inexpressible, just get on with the gardening.
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IHEU against OIC censorship at the UN
EU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights
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Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse
19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.
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Tim Sandefur on Robert Wright on Dennett
Dennett admitted there’s a Higher Purpose! No he didn’t.
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The Skeptical Alt-Heath Practitioner
A skeptical massage therapist/science writer is being sued for being ‘offensive.’
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IHEU and CFI defend the rights of women
IHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the UN HRC.
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Turkey’s forced ‘suicides’
A growing number of girls and women are being locked in rooms by their families, with a gun, poison or a noose, and left there until they kill themselves.
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Robert Wright on Dennett at Beliefnet
Dennett ‘declared that life on earth shows signs of having a higher purpose.’ Not.
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The Pennsylvania Taliban
Punish girls for taking pictures of each other semi-naked, do nothing about boys who distribute the pictures.
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Prince of Wales joins ‘detox’ fraud
The word detox has no agreed meaning. It is a marketing word, designed to separate the gullible from their money
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Christine Toomey on gender genocide
Far from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite.
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Pseudoscience is not a valid educational choice
A curious working definition of ‘diversity’ now includes funnelling public money to an occult society.
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NOVA Talks to John Mack
In case after case after case, I’ve been impressed with the sincerity with which people tell their stories, the power of feelings connected with this.
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Gerald Weissmann on Homeopathy and the Prince of Wales
When Prince Charles uses terms such as ‘integrated therapy’ he is following the lead of creationists who hide under the term ‘intelligent design.’
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Fadela Amara and ‘Ni putes ni soumises’
“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.
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Raw Nerve Apologizes to Peter Tatchell
‘Mr Tatchell is not Islamophobic and is not “part of the Islamophobia industry.” Nor is OutRage!’
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The Skeptic’s dictionary on alien abductions
John Mack claimed that he could think of no better explanation for his patient’s abduction stories than that they were true.
