IHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the UN HRC.… 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.
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
Colorado senator opposes AIDS testing.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If the baby has AIDS, the mother will feel guilty, and that will be good.… Read the rest
Letter from a Birmingham jail
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.’… Read the rest
Theocracy in America
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Catholic bishop tells a Representative what to do.… Read the rest
Alaina Podmorow in action, age 11.
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Canadian government matches funds raised by Little Women For Little Women in Afghanistan.… Read the rest
Afsan Chowdhury on the shadow citizens
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Being gay in Bangladesh isn’t easy.… Read the rest
Joel Achenbach on Carl Sagan
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
We have needed Sagan ever since Copernicus removed us from the center of the universe.… Read the rest
Confessions of a Lonely Atheist
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Natalie Angier unimpressed by Bush’s assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks Vapo Rub for the national charley horse.… Read the rest
Massimo Puglicci reads Stanley Fish on atheism
Apr 10th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Another demonstration that atheism is simply not permissible.… Read the rest