The prosecution team say they are questioning whether the six scientists and the official on trial, who constitute Italy’s Commission of Grand Risks, did their jobs properly.… Read the rest

Last year, more than 5,000 scientists signed an open letter to Italian President Giorgio
Napolitano in support of the defendants.… Read the rest

First prize in Koran-reciting and general knowledge Ramadan contest: an AK-47 and $700; second prize an AK-47 and $500; third prize two grenades and $400.… Read the rest

Did someone remind him Toronto is in Canada? Those nagging worries about international law was it?… Read the rest

“The threats of dogma, fraudulent, paranormal and fringe science claims are
global,” says Leo Igwe. “So combating them requires a global approach.”… Read the rest

The sharia court in Zamfara state ordered that Auwalu Abubaka, 23, and Lawalli Musa, 22, have
their right hands chopped off for stealing a bull.… Read the rest

Creationism and ‘intelligent design’ are not scientific theories, but they are portrayed as such by some fundamentalists who try to have their views promoted in publicly-funded schools.… Read the rest

A group of 30 UK scientists have signed a statement saying it is “unacceptable” to teach creationism and intelligent design, whether it happens in science lessons or not.… Read the rest

Dominionism has already made huge inroads into every aspect of American government and society and is now spreading its tentacles across a number of third-world countries.… Read the rest

“Mere liberation from theism is not enough.” Well no kidding.… Read the rest

Pinker shows that, with notable exceptions, the long-term trend for murder and violence has been going down since humans developed agriculture 10,000 years ago.… Read the rest

Only a few other journalists had written as aggressively about Islamist  extremism in the military, and not all of them had survived.… Read the rest

A month old but funny.… Read the rest

The crusade against secularism pays well.… Read the rest

Forensic statisticians have ways of spotting suspicious patterns in the raw numbers, thus estimating the chances that figures from a set of accounts have been fiddled.… Read the rest

He has been busy.… Read the rest

His antics stink of a publicity stunt designed to paint him as the innocent, caring, liberal-minded bloke taken hostage by a feminised, man-hating world.… Read the rest

Philosophy at Community College; wanting to be authentic; long “Biblical” skirt v jeans; a horde of Message women; apostasy.… Read the rest

Says headline. Article replaces ‘you’ with ‘mice’ and says it would be a leap of faith to say the same effects would be seen in humans.… Read the rest

These hyper-concerned male citizens aren’t exactly smiling when they offer up
their unsolicited advice.… Read the rest