At the heart of all fundamentalist movements is support for the patriarchal family.… Read the rest
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Multifaithism is Bad for Women
May 7th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
Another girls school had petrol bombs thrown at it on Sunday.… Read the rest
How Forced Marriage Works
May 6th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
Mo is shocked, shocked.… Read the rest
Terry Sanderson on a Clash of Rights
May 6th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
They are in tension.… Read the rest
Oh the Horror: Obama is an Intellectual
May 5th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
Also psychoanalysis and Shakespeare. Hmm.… Read the rest
God transcends, except when it doesn’t
May 5th, 2008 11:28 am | By Ophelia BensonOur 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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
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 Ophelia Benson
‘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 Ophelia Benson
There is no missing finger, so pixie dust not needed.… Read the rest
Ben Goldacre on Manufacturing Doubt
May 4th, 2008 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Note similarities between dissembling of food supplement industry and tobacco lobby’s war with epidemiology.… Read the rest