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“The spell which creates an invisible moat around religion…that whispers, ‘Science Stay Away’.”

‘A good scientist insists that, before one assents to a claim, there must be good evidence for that claim.’

‘Fashion matters and today the fashion is to ignore genocide.’

Badiou’s close questioning of such concepts as evil and democracy have gained attention.

If ideas can be copyrighted, intellectual life is doomed.

Prattling of demonization, disciplinary narrative, uniformly establishmentarian scientific sympathies.

Working on a book that, if it is published, is going to turn the Islamic world upside down.

First head of state indicted for crimes against humanity found dead in cell in The Hague.

‘Whole populations were forced from their homes, for some the fate was far worse.’

‘A philosophical primer that also offers readers a modest critical apparatus.’

The Alliance for Science.

Islamic hour one in a string of demands by a group close to the Muslim Brotherhood.

‘Historical accuracy has prevailed over mythological ideas of history,’ says Michael Witzel.

Danish government has apologised for the distress, but not for the cartoons themselves.

Exam board is accused of confusing pupils by including religion.

Fallas festival in Valencia has survived attacks by Church, Franco, but now self-censors.

Analysts say ‘demonisation’ of Islam by politicians and the media has eroded tolerance.

Having religious convictions is not very much like having either epileptic seizures or blue eyes.

Wole Soyinka says the atavists of religion have expanded the ‘territory of insult’ into a limitless one.

Only by acknowledging where mistakes were made in the past can we avoid making them in the future.