The desperate consequences of delusional thinking about medicine…when the deluded are the people running the country.… Read the rest
Fashionable nonsense has been with us since the time that prehistoric man first transcribed Of Grammatology on to the walls of the Lascaux caves. Here we cast an eye back at some historical highlights.
The Tragic Human Cost of Political Idiocy and AIDS Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAfghan women protest law despite bullies screaming ‘whores!’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOne provision makes it illegal for a woman to refuse to “make herself up” or “dress up” if that is what her husband wants.… Read the rest
The War on Women: Afghanistan and Eastern Congo
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThere are certain realities we should not lose sight of and certain people we should not sell out.… Read the rest
Columbia University ‘Miracle’ Study: Flawed and Fraud
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEven a cursory review of the report reveals many potential flaws.… Read the rest
Nepotistic succession in the political class
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNepotism diminishes the role of merit and the need for democratic persuasion in how elected leaders are chosen.… Read the rest
Fuambai Ahmadu cheers Bondo women
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFor protesting ‘a brazen attack by anti-FGM activists against female initiation.’… Read the rest
Tehran Plans to Execute Protesters
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe news of death sentences sparked immediate condemnation from international human rights groups.… Read the rest
Anthony Gottlieb on Gods and Gardens
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf the idea of God is inexpressible, just get on with the gardening.… Read the rest
IHEU against OIC censorship at the UN
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEU will not accept that the notion of defamation of religion be integrated into the framework of human rights… Read the rest
Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia Benson19 of the bishops are among the 61 who signed a petition against Obama’s honorary degree at Notre Dame.… Read the rest
Tim Sandefur on Robert Wright on Dennett
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDennett admitted there’s a Higher Purpose! No he didn’t.… Read the rest
The Skeptical Alt-Heath Practitioner
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA skeptical massage therapist/science writer is being sued for being ‘offensive.’… Read the rest
IHEU and CFI defend the rights of women
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIHEU also attacked the culture of censorship that now prevails in the UN HRC.… Read the rest
Turkey’s forced ‘suicides’
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonA growing number of girls and women are being locked in rooms by their families, with a gun, poison or a noose, and left there until they kill themselves. … Read the rest
Robert Wright on Dennett at Beliefnet
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDennett ‘declared that life on earth shows signs of having a higher purpose.’ Not.… Read the rest
The Pennsylvania Taliban
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonPunish girls for taking pictures of each other semi-naked, do nothing about boys who distribute the pictures.… Read the rest
George Scialabba on Jacoby, Bernstein and Multiculturalism
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBooks by a superb (albeit incorrigibly centrist) reporter and a radical social critic.… Read the rest
The new Taliban codex
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIt is forbidden to work as a teacher under the current puppet regime. Teachers must recieve a warning; next time, a beating; next, death.… Read the rest
Young Afghan women turn to suicide
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDriven to desperation by forced marriages and abusive husbands, more and more are seeking release through self-immolation.… Read the rest
AIDS Denial is Pseudoscience
Apr 10th, 2010 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe scientific evidence is overwhelming and has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, the way science is supposed to be done. … Read the rest