‘Mr Tatchell is not Islamophobic and is not “part of the Islamophobia industry.” Nor is OutRage!’
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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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.
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Colorado senator opposes AIDS testing.
If the baby has AIDS, the mother will feel guilty, and that will be good.
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Letter from a Birmingham jail
‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’
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Theocracy in America
Catholic bishop tells a Representative what to do.
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Alaina Podmorow in action, age 11.
Canadian government matches funds raised by Little Women For Little Women in Afghanistan.
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Scalia on the death penalty
For the believing Christian, death is no big deal.
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Sholto Byrnes criticizes secularism on the left.
For all the talk of tolerance, there are some who believe that certain subjects simply cannot be aired. And foremost among them is God.
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Frontline’s ‘Prisoners of Silence’
Double-blind testing show it’s the ‘facilitator’ who is typing.
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Steiner racism and state funding
At Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship ‘special pre-election seminar’
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BBC boss says Islam should be treated differently
Also says his Christian beliefs guide his judgments.
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David Colquhoun on the problem of causality
The problem is traded on by the vast and unscrupulous alternative medicine industry.
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Being a new atheist means not saying you’re sorry
It seems as if in order to be a ‘good’ atheist one has to feel bad about not believing in god.
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Diary of a Pakistani Schoolgirl
3 January: I am afraid. 14 January: I may not go to school again.
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Free Speech and its Postmodern Adversaries
The theoretical stimuli for multiculturalism owe something to theories about “difference”
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Communal justice in Bolivia
Cases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption.
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Afghanistan: a Just Intervention
Chris Bertram asks why the British left reacted the way it did.
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A History of Neglect
Paddy Doyle’s timeline of Irish Industrial Schools and failed attempts to reform them.
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Religious Schools: the Case Against
Extracts from Humanist Philosophers’ Group pamphlet.
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Would Steve Gould have signed the ‘Steves’ list?
‘There is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence.’
