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Pragna Patel on the Problem with Multifaithism *

May 7th, 2008 | Filed by

At the heart of all fundamentalist movements is support for the patriarchal family.… Read the rest



Multifaithism is Bad for Women *

May 7th, 2008 | Filed by

The multicultural approach harms women; it focuses on relations between groups, rather than within them. … Read the rest



Girls’ School Burnt Down in Swat District *

May 7th, 2008 | Filed by

Another girls school had petrol bombs thrown at it on Sunday.… Read the rest



How Forced Marriage Works *

May 6th, 2008 | Filed by

She loved her parents, they didn’t beat her, but she gave in to the incessant pleadings.… Read the rest



Jesus and Mo Ponder the FLDS *

May 6th, 2008 | Filed by

Mo is shocked, shocked.… Read the rest



Terry Sanderson on a Clash of Rights *

May 6th, 2008 | Filed by

Those of gay people and those of religious people who want to discriminate against them.… Read the rest



Parvin Ardalan Gets 2 Years Suspended Sentence *

May 6th, 2008 | Filed by

For a demo demanding equal rights for women on divorce, inheritance and child custody.… Read the rest



Women’s Rights versus Religious Liberty *

May 6th, 2008 | Filed by

They are in tension.… Read the rest



Oh the Horror: Obama is an Intellectual *

May 5th, 2008 | Filed by

Well we can’t have that. Obviously the more ignorant a president is, the better.… Read the rest



NCSE’s ‘Expelled Exposed’ *

May 5th, 2008 | Filed by

Not a documentary; anti-science propaganda to create the appearance of controversy where there is none.… Read the rest



Pretend Populists *

May 5th, 2008 | Filed by

Bogus ‘anti-elitism’ is a weapon against liberal Democrats. How does that work?… Read the rest



Carl Zimmer on Gene Networks *

May 5th, 2008 | Filed by

The more scientists know about them, the more there is to find out.… Read the rest



Nick Bostrom Looks for the Great Filter *

May 5th, 2008 | Filed by

Perhaps the Great Filter is a destructive tendency common to virtually all technological civilizations. … Read the rest



Nussbaum on Philosophy and Shakespeare *

May 5th, 2008 | Filed by

Also psychoanalysis and Shakespeare. Hmm.… Read the rest



God transcends, except when it doesn’t

May 5th, 2008 11:28 am | By

Our friend Chris Hedges was on Point of Inquiry last week, and his performance is being discussed at the CFI forum. I couldn’t resist joining in a couple of times – the latest time because of one of those ‘science has nothing to say about god because god transcends nature’ arguments, or pseudo-arguments. Those always annoy me. I thought I would share.

I’m not seeing my error, I’m afraid. Christian dogma, at least, posits a god who exists outside of nature but who acts in time and space without inhabiting that time-space.

Yup uh huh sure. A god who exists outside of nature but can meddle with it any old which way but it still exists outside of nature … Read the rest



Malaysia Plans to Treat Women Like Infants *

May 4th, 2008 | Filed by

Government plans to require women to obtain written consent from families or employers to travel alone.… Read the rest



Charles Darwin Samples a Little Television *

May 4th, 2008 | Filed by

It is clear what science is for: it is to help the police elucidate which American has killed which other American.… Read the rest



The Miracle of the Finger *

May 4th, 2008 | Filed by

‘It looked to have been an ordinary fingertip injury with quite unremarkable healing. This is junk science.’… Read the rest



Ben Goldacre on ‘Pixie Dust’ Nonsense *

May 4th, 2008 | Filed by

There is no missing finger, so pixie dust not needed.… Read the rest



Ben Goldacre on Manufacturing Doubt *

May 4th, 2008 | Filed by

Note similarities between dissembling of food supplement industry and tobacco lobby’s war with epidemiology.… Read the rest