Parents who trust in divine intervention, even after doctors say there is no hope of survival, put their children through aggressive but futile treatments, they said.… Read the rest

David Geier is the son in a father-son team which ran a clinic purporting to treat autism through chelation and lupron. He has no qualifications in medicine.… Read the rest

The judge could have told the child, “You are free to choose your religion, or no religion. You can be a Jew or a Christian. You can choose to worship no deity at all.”… Read the rest

People don’t say hooray for sexual harassment, but they do argue over what it is.… Read the rest

Tim Loughton, the children’s minister, said that a “wall of silence” is obscuring the full scale of cruelty where beliefs in evil spirits is common.… Read the rest

Thousands rallied on Monday to protest a push by the Islamist-led government for constitutional changes that would degrade women’s status.… Read the rest

Similarities between the DNA of modern people and Neanderthals are more likely
to have arisen from shared ancestry than interbreeding, the study reports.… Read the rest

Who will go on trial for leaking papers out of a desire to combat “evil and corruption everywhere in the Church,” according to a prosecutor in the case.… Read the rest

Should a cleric issue a fatwa saying a newspaper editor should die for saying yes to that question?… Read the rest

This is the first view scientists have had of a fluvial system from the surface of Mars.… Read the rest

It’s low resolution, but pretty enough and interesting enough to share, Mike Malin explains.… Read the rest

A large German pharmaceutical company is threatening a Danish academic with libel over a paper  published in The New England Journal of Medicine.… Read the rest

The 200C dilution would require 10^320 universes or so just to find one active
particle.… Read the rest

“I’m very belligerent and I’ve not had it. I’m ready to lead a crusade against the Party of God.”… Read the rest

“I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn’t like being a child. I didn’t like the rank injustice of not being listened to.”… Read the rest

He was funny and smart about many things, including politics in America.… Read the rest

She chronicled the rise of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe from freedom fighter to power-obsessed leader.… Read the rest

Church attendance is declining, therefore it’s ok to punish Pussy Riot.… Read the rest

The new fossils confirm the presence of two contemporary species of early Homo, in addition to Homo erectus, in the early Pleistocene of eastern Africa.… Read the rest

The discoveries suggests that at least three distinct species of humans co-existed in Africa.… Read the rest