Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
John R Bowen, the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor at Washington University in St.Louis (USA), has an article in the UK’s Guardian in which he argues that the recent Panorama expose by the BBC of Sharia councils in the UK was flawed and did not tell the full story. In same ways his argument reminds me of … Read more
Andrew Brown, a journalist, writer, and editor of the belief section of the Guardian‘s Comment is Free, has had what can best be described as a bit of a rant in his Monday column. He devotes his entire scribbling output to a moan about Richard Dawkins pointing out the lunacy of some beliefs … On Sunday afternoon he was at … Read more
There exists a complete gobshite in Burma called Wirathu. This lunatic is a Buddhist monk who has been inciting, almost single handedly, a rising tide of violence … The saffron-robed 45-year-old regularly shares his hate-filled rants through DVD and social media, in which he warns against Muslims who “target innocent young Burmese girls and rape … Read more
The word “Islamophobia” is defined as a prejudice against, hatred towards, or irrational fear of Muslims, and as a definition that is fine. The problem however is that is not how the term is actually deployed. Instead of being a word used to criticise an irrational emotional bias, akin to say racism or xenophobia, it is instead being … Read more
Susan Greenfield is a British scientist, writer, broadcaster, and member of the House of Lords, who specializes in the physiology of the brain, but don’t be impressed because she has a rather bad habit of publishing daft claims in the press that are not backed up with any real science – an appeal to authority, … Read more
It sounds like a line from Monty Python, “You don’t believe what I believe, so you need to be killed”. Would anybody in the 21st century be that bat-shit crazy? You bet, we have religion to thank for that, or to be more precise, Islam. Now lets be clear, do all Muslims think that non-believers … Read more