EU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights… Read the rest
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.
Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.… Read the rest
Tim Sandefur on Robert Wright on Dennett
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dennett admitted there’s a Higher Purpose! No he didn’t.… Read the rest
The Skeptical Alt-Heath Practitioner
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A skeptical massage therapist/science writer is being sued for being ‘offensive.’… 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
Turkey’s forced ‘suicides’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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. … Read the rest
Robert Wright on Dennett at Beliefnet
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dennett ‘declared that life on earth shows signs of having a higher purpose.’ Not.… Read the rest
The Pennsylvania Taliban
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Punish girls for taking pictures of each other semi-naked, do nothing about boys who distribute the pictures.… Read the rest
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
Christine Toomey on gender genocide
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Far from the shortage of women increasing their worth and standing in society, as some might imagine, the result is the opposite. … Read the rest
Pseudoscience is not a valid educational choice
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A curious working definition of ‘diversity’ now includes funnelling public money to an occult society.… Read the rest
NOVA Talks to John Mack
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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.… Read the rest
Gerald Weissmann on Homeopathy and the Prince of Wales
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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
Fadela Amara and ‘Ni putes ni soumises’
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
“The veil symbolises submission to male dominance,” Fadela Amara explains.… Read the rest
Raw Nerve Apologizes to Peter Tatchell
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Mr Tatchell is not Islamophobic and is not “part of the Islamophobia industry.” Nor is OutRage!’… Read the rest
The Skeptic’s dictionary on alien abductions
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
John Mack claimed that he could think of no better explanation for his patient’s abduction stories than that they were true.… Read the rest
John Stachel on recurrent hostility to Einstein
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Relativity has been attacked in the name of US pragmatism, German idealism, English Hegelianism, French Bergsonianism (by fellow Jew Henri Bergson!), Soviet “diamat” (dialectical materialism) and Nazi “Deutsche Physik”… Read the rest
Cambridge Mosque press release [on mosque site]
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cites sorrow and anger, demands apology for insult to honour of prophet. … Read the rest
Postmodernism and Fabrication of History
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Historians are always making up figures,’ said Lyndall Ryan. Oh really?… Read the rest
Michelle Goldberg on the Dover trial
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Emboldened by their growing political power, religious conservatives are once again storming the barricades of science education. … Read the rest
