Some scientific questions now seem to be a matter of tribal identity.… Read the rest

Immovably convinced of his own rightness, he views his ­critics with the weary resignation of an early Christian martyr.… Read the rest

John McLachlan sent an absurd proposal to an International Conference on Integrative Medicine. It was accepted…… Read the rest

Or what Mo and Paul have in common.… Read the rest

“I get that question all the time. I always try to give a sensitive, reasoned answer. This is usually awkward, time consuming and pointless.”… Read the rest

“Walsh agreed to go to a psychiatrist and was ‘grateful that he had been given a second chance’.”… Read the rest

Archbishops, bishops, chancellors, vicars general, parish priests – the list of senior clerics who knew of Walsh’s serial sexual abuse of children is virtually endless.… Read the rest

It’s done!… Read the rest

University scientists wondered to each other in internal e-mails if Gaskell’s religion would interfere with the job, which included public outreach.… Read the rest

Great Expectations is a bitter, tragic novel.… Read the rest

Yet more reasons to think that Steiner schools are all based on pseudoscience: Steiner’s Spiritual Science.… Read the rest

“The case against Assange is laid out in police material held in Stockholm to which the Guardian received unauthorised access.”… Read the rest

Forbidding Jews to rent flats or sell property to non-Jews; Arab students are bullied and threatened.… Read the rest

The more that liberals concede on free speech and Muslim sensitivities, the more that Islamists gain a spurious moral legitimacy.… Read the rest

And the winner is – Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, head of the UK Islamic Sharia Council.… Read the rest

By far the weakest point of the Objectivist conception of rights is that they limit themselves to what are called negative rights.… Read the rest

Which is difficult when the producers cut all the examples (such as reduced insecticide use, disease resistant papaya, Golden rice).… Read the rest

Mehmet Oz is an alarmist about GM crops.… Read the rest

And some of the audience applauds.… Read the rest

Why yes, it is. Thank you for asking.… Read the rest