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BSLS: The Two Cultures in Question
24 January: Gillian Beer, Ben Goldacre, Anthony Grayling, Jonathan Miller, Alan Sokal.
Date filed: 05-01-2009
Christine Maggiore and the Price of Skepticism
Determined to reject scientific wisdom, Maggiore breast-fed her daughter, who died at age 3.
Date filed: 05-01-2009
Denialism and the Death of Christine Maggiore
How do AIDS denialists explain the death of Christine Maggiore? Lots of ways.
Date filed: 05-01-2009
Happy New Year, But Nothing Has Changed
People continue to have stupid ideas, newspapers continue to laud them, and lives will be lost.
Date filed: 05-01-2009
Ben Goldacre, Today, Detox Nonsense
'I read a quote. She laughed and said I was mistaken.' But he wasn't.
Date filed: 05-01-2009
Fighting Straw Men: Mary Midgley and Scientific Discourse
By Tauriq Mousa
Midgley invents a monster called 'Scientism.'
Date filed: 27-12-2008
Medical Mistletoe Myths
By Colin Brewer
Mistletoe is fine as a decoration and fertility symbol; as a treatment for cancer it's worthless.
Date filed: 26-12-2008
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora
By Max Dunbar
The survival memoir of an atheist red triangle.
Date filed: 24-12-2008
Women’s Right Activist Beheaded in Iraqi Kurdistan
By Azar Majedi
In the context of Iraqi society, 'the circumstances that led to her death' are well known.
Date filed: 21-12-2008
Gina Khan's Diary
By Gina Khan
December 16: The construction of the concept of 'Islamophobia'
Date filed: 16-12-2008
Call for End to Sharia Courts
By Maryam Namazie
A new report shows widespread injustice in sharia courts.
Date filed: 16-12-2008
Quest for the Historical Jesus Begins Anew
By Center for Inquiry
A non-theologically-driven effort to determine what can be reliably recovered about the historical figure of Jesus.
Date filed: 15-12-2008
Jihadism and the 'Dreamers of the Day'
By Edmund Standing
Jihadism shares the obsessions and aspirations of followers of other genocidal and terroristic movements.
Date filed: 11-12-2008
