Founded to promote atheism, agnosticism, humanism, rational thinking, and education through science, PATAS is growing rapidly.… Read the rest

Dr Ann McPherson, who was a strong advocate for assisted suicide, has died after a long battle with cancer, just days after writing of her frustration at not being able to die.… Read the rest

Look here. Scientists like doing science. That’s faith. See?… Read the rest

Washington ranks among the worst in meeting childhood vaccination targets, ranging between 88 and 93 percent for “required” vaccinations.… Read the rest

Seventeen years into its democracy, South Africa should not be tolerating crimes of this nature.… Read the rest

What is being described here is fanaticism and it licenses within Žižek’s thought what John Holbo has called Žižek’s ‘towering un-thoughtfulness’.… Read the rest

In Germany the Union of Catholic Physicians has been offering homeopathic “Therapy Options for Homosexuality” on their website.… Read the rest

He thought being buried alive for a night would bring him luck.… Read the rest

His book on “Inside Taliban and Al-Qaeda” was about to be published and it was going to name names. Some of his colleagues suspect intelligence agencies.… Read the rest

“The protection of journalists is in my mandate,” you told us.… Read the rest

Shahzad wrote his last article in the aftermath of the attack on PNS Mehran, which revealed al Qaeda infiltration in the navy.… Read the rest

“I will leave it up to our leader to reach a decision that will consider the best interests of the people, while also being pleasing to Allah, and in line with divine law.”… Read the rest

Victims and witnesses interviewed by Human Rights Watch described systematic killings, beatings, torture using electroshock devices, and detention of the injured.… Read the rest

 Offering your views as an alternative to traditional religious systems does not mean that your views comprise a religious system of their own.… Read the rest

Jerry Coyne, David Aaronovitch, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox et al.… Read the rest

Is it possible that those people with smaller hippocampal volumes are more likely to have specific religious attributes, drawing the causal arrow in the other direction?… Read the rest

A senior Egyptian general told CNN that women detained on 9 March at Cairo’s Tahrir Square had been forced to undergo ‘virginity tests’.… Read the rest

Ireland has failed to investigate a 70+-year system of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of women and girls in the Magdalene laundries.… Read the rest

“The fact is that the war has not been won by either side. The only correct term would be that it is a frozen conflict.”… Read the rest

Hmm.… Read the rest