‘Expelled’ producer tells PZ Myers to leave screening, while letting his guest go in. Own goal.
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More on ‘Expelled’ Party
Dawkins is interviewed in the movie, so naturally he wanted to see it.
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Phil Plait on Creationism, Evolution and Nazis
This false connection between the Holocaust and the teaching of evolution is a gross twisting of reality.
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Public Health Risk as Parents Reject Vaccines
Personal-belief exemptions are potentially dangerous and bad public policy because not based on sound science.
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Grayling on Gray
Gray has merely iterated his views in the teeth of the severe drubbing given to their cogency and credentials.
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Grayling on Civil Liberties
The liberties of individuals are inconvenient for all states and their security services.
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Look on This Advertisement, and on This
Offence is emphatically not a reason for censorship; a violation of truthfulness is a fit subject for criticism.
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Rabbi Says Jewish Law Forbids Employing Arabs
‘Since this is a matter of endangering souls, it is clear that it is completely forbidden to employ them and rent houses to them.’
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Thailand: 600 Protest Motoons
Protesters claimed phrases on banners such as ‘Kill Them’ should not be considered a threat.
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Reading the Memoirs of Ex-Islamists
What is striking here is the utterly marginal place given to politics, to history and ideas.
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Religious Groups Want Cartoon Channel Closed
Christian and Muslim groups demand shut down of Russia’s 2X2 because it airs anti-religious cartoons.
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Abuse at a Jersey Industrial School
Haut de la Garenne was a house of horrors.
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Counselling Consisted of Prayer Readings
Mercy Ministries offers help with mental illness but hands patients over to Bible studies students.
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Saudi Religious Cops Questioned in Deaths
Religious police saw a man and a woman in a car and gave chase. The car crashed and the couple were killed.
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Saudi Vice Cops Deny Humiliating Woman
Director of Commission said the commission’s act merely protected the honor of the student and her family.
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Cass Sunstein on the Obama He Knows
‘Obama has a genuinely independent mind, he’s a terrific listener and he goes wherever reason takes him.’
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David Bromwich on ‘Revolutionary Euphemism’
Totalitarian minds are in part created by the ease and invisibility of euphemism.
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Megamosque Planned for East London
What the BBC calls a ‘Muslim missionary group’ hopes to build a mosque big enough to hold 12,000.
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Saudi Vice Police Bust Restaurant
Some families left hurriedly, others chose to defy the religious police and ate the rest of their food on the floor.
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Saudi Religious Police Defend Starbucks Arrest
A woman was sitting with a male colleague, making ‘suspicious gestures.’
