It could become illegal in the UK to compel two people to marry.… Read the rest
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Honour Killing Law Tightened in Pakistan 
Oct 26th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But some women’s groups say it doesn’t go far enough.… Read the rest
Stems Cells and Paralysis Hope
Oct 26th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Just in case anybody is in any doubt about the importance of embryonic stem cell research.… Read the rest
School Science Should be Promoted
Oct 26th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
All young people should learn about scientific reasoning up to the age of nineteen.… Read the rest
Human Tissue Controls Rejected
Oct 25th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Plans to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been defeated in the UK House of Lords. … Read the rest
Tobacco and Academic Medicine
Oct 25th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Philip Morris exploited institional fears of losing research funding in order to preserve financial ties to academic medicine.… Read the rest
UN Debate on Cloning Draws to a Close
Oct 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Two different resolutions are on the table.… Read the rest
Reeve in Stem Cell Advert
Oct 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An appeal from beyond the grave.… Read the rest
Dark Ages Return in Pennsylvania
Oct 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Intelligent Design on the science curriculum.… Read the rest
Derrida and Psychoanalysis
Oct 21st, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Derrida put the text on the couch.… Read the rest
‘Theory’ Began to Seem Banal
Oct 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Theory’ was seen as a political weapon. Why? No one knows. [link fixed]… Read the rest
Derrida-ing Then not Derrida-ing
Oct 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Theory’ as shibboleth.… Read the rest
Nannying is Not Such a Bad Thing
Oct 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Julian Baggini on freedom, Britney and papal infallibility.… Read the rest
Joys and Sorrows of Independent Scholarship
Oct 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Irregular income if any, inaccessible libraries; but it’s worth it.… Read the rest
That Dream Again
Oct 18th, 2004 6:05 pm | By Ophelia BensonI just wanted to call your attention to this post on Normblog. It’s his reaction to yet another of those helpful lectures on how impoverished and pathetic secularism is and how we have to give up and admit that we ‘need’ religion. Of course, as always, the writer makes the case by 1) pretending that religion is the only possible source of things like meaning and solidarity, and 2) by redefining religion. Okay. At that rate – if there’s enough taking away combined with enough redefinition – I could be brought to agree with that idea too. But what of it? Of what use is it to assume that secularism is something it isn’t and that religion isn’t what … Read the rest
The Scottish Enlightenment
Oct 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Conservative and radical at the same time.… Read the rest
Hannah Arendt Was Not Entirely Wrong
Oct 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Not even as wrong as this article claims.… Read the rest
