At three schools in California, 80% of parents have signed a “personal belief exemption” to keep their children from being vaccinated.… Read the rest

For a half a century, the British elite has pretended that it does not exist.… Read the rest

Talking, writing and perpetuating the belief he has upheld throughout his life: in “free inquiry, open-mindedness and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.”… Read the rest

Harvard is keeping its findings secret, which leaves other researchers unsure which of Hauser’s experiments can be relied on.… Read the rest

There’s obviously a market for such pieces as long as they attack an easily-demonised group such as outspoken atheists.… Read the rest

They think they’re nonconformists but ha. They mock believers and love Satan. They are smug, shallow and arrogant.… Read the rest

The attack on a church in KL was the first of a series following the ridiculous upset over who gets to say “Allah.”… Read the rest

Every school day in Malaysia, little Muslim girls stand around at recess. They don’t skip or run much. They can’t. They’re hobbled.… Read the rest

The findings have resulted in the retraction of a study on whether monkeys learn rules, published in 2002 in the journal Cognition.… Read the rest

Two scientific journals acknowledge problems in Hauser’s articles brought to light by an internal Harvard inquiry.… Read the rest

Toby Young says no prominent Western feminist has spoken out about Ashtiani, then cites Jane Fonda.… Read the rest

We never, and so do you.… Read the rest

Sure she did.… Read the rest

The way to respond to such overtures is by critical scrutiny and engagement, not cheap appeals to parochialism, victimology, and unreason.… Read the rest

Hitch may not be certain about god, but he is certain that the pope knows no more about it than he does.… Read the rest

Brilliant programmes based around a simple idea: “an escape that starts anywhere in the world but always ends in Canada.”… Read the rest

Are humans at their best when they are healthy and free or when they are suffering and captive?… Read the rest

It is inappropriate that a lecturer teaching about the lies in public life in Stalin’s USSR should himself be so menacing and dishonest.… Read the rest

Academic theologians like Critchley seem willfully blind to the pernicious real-world consequences of faith beliefs.… Read the rest

“The Foreign Office said it distinguished between forced and arranged marriages.” Often a distinction without a difference.… Read the rest