On truth, epistemology, global warming, philosophy of mind, quasi-realism, Hume… Read the rest
Silence over Afghan women’s rights
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWidows starve, refugees are beaten, rape victims are beaten… Read the rest
Evidence and persuasion
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRobert Wilcocks on Jacques Bénesteau’s Mensonges freudiens : Histoire d’une désinformation séculaire… Read the rest
Muslim Council of Britain unable to attend Holocaust Memorial day
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBecause it is too ‘mixed with the politics of the day’… Read the rest
Human Rights Watch on the religious revival
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTensions between religious fundamentalism and human rights… Read the rest
Rushdie on ‘joke’ Islamic leaders
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSays there is a “backsliding into bigotry” among Muslims both in Britain and around the world. … Read the rest
Polio outbreak in Indonesia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOfficials believe the outbreak can be traced to Nigeria, where vaccinations were suspended in 2003 after radical clerics said they were a US plot… Read the rest
Manufactured Consensus?
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf political considerations dictate what gets published, it’s all over for science.… Read the rest
Amnesty International on ‘honour’ killings in Pakistan
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDr Tahira Shahid Khan says ‘Women are considered the property of the males in their family irrespective of their class, ethnic or religious group. The owner of the property has the right to decide its fate. The concept of ownership has turned women into a commodity’… Read the rest
Women Against Fundamentalisms
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWAF was launched in 1989 to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions.… Read the rest
Ann Cryer: Forced marriages must end
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmanda Day talks to Labour MP Ann Cryer about her campaign to win justice for young Asian women.… Read the rest
Empty-headed vehemence of a discouraging kind
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonGreer’s idealization of miserable women – which is to say, her denial of their misery – is worse than naive. It is cruel.… Read the rest
SF, Crypto-fascism and Romanticism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe bandit hero – the underdog rebel – so frequently becomes the political tyrant; and we are perpetually astonished!… Read the rest
Barbie looks better with no legs
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhy does someone want both her legs off, ‘fairly high’ above the knee?… Read the rest
Costing an Arm and a Leg
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMental disorders come and go.… Read the rest
Piers Benn on Islamophobia-phobia
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.… Read the rest
Libraries
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSome librarians now post NO SILENCE PLEASE signs as part of their marketing campaigns.… Read the rest
The hegemony of social constructionism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMark Bauerlein on the institutional factors behind groupthink.… Read the rest
Noam Chomsky’s ‘Rationality/Science’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘these attributions scarcely rise to the level of a caricature of rational inquiry’… Read the rest
Visiting Preacher Killen
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘If You Don’t Believe in God, the Hellfire Awaits You.’… Read the rest