Nepotism diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen.… 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.
Fuambai Ahmadu cheers Bondo women
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’… Read the rest
Tehran Plans to Execute Protesters
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe news of death sentences sparked immediate condemnation from international human rights groups.… Read the rest
Anthony Gottlieb on Gods and Gardens
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf the idea of God is inexpressible, just get on with the gardening.… Read the rest
IHEU against OIC censorship at the UN
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights… Read the rest
Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson19 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 BensonDennett admitted there’s a Higher Purpose! No he didn’t.… Read the rest
The Skeptical Alt-Heath Practitioner
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA 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 BensonIHEU 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 BensonA 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 BensonDennett ‘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 BensonPunish 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 BensonThe 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 BensonFar 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 BensonA 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 BensonIn 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
Iran’s bloggers in censorship protest
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHundreds of Iranian online journals have been protesting against media censorship by renaming their blogs after pro-reformist newspapers and websites that have been banned or shut down by the authorities.… Read the rest
Afghan women seek death by fire
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDelegates from countries like Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka – which have similar female suicide rates – discussed the problem at a conference in Afghanistan in November 2006.… Read the rest
April 2002 HRW report on Gujarat riots
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWe Have No Orders To Save You.… Read the rest