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Einstein’s Wife: Mileva Marić
Feel-good history strikes again.

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Hindutva on the Attack
Campaigns to silence, intimidate, or destroy scholars and scholarship.

Hear the Noise
Will a tv drama make the fear of the MMR jab even worse?

Cultural Relativism
Tolerance can conflict with opposition to caste violence and other injustice.

Flashback

The Pennsylvania Taliban
Punish girls for appearing in pictures, do nothing about boys who distribute them.

The Skeptical Alt-Heath Practitioner
A skeptical massage therapist/science writer is being sued for being 'offensive.'

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Last Updated:10-03-2010

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Philosopher Julian Baggini's column on bad argumentative moves.
Last Updated:25-10-2005

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Paula Kirby on Catholics Dictating Terms
Democracy is not one person, one vote plus however many extra votes you'd like on behalf of your invisible friend.
Date filed: 10-03-2010

Germany: Reformers Want Pope to Speak Up
The pope should say exactly what he knew about widespread allegations of abuse by clerics in Regensburg.
Date filed: 10-03-2010

Irish Arrests Over Plot to Kill Lars Vilks
The usual thuggish bullying stupidity.
Date filed: 10-03-2010

Muslim Woman Councillor Defies Death Threats
Shiria Khatun says, 'We live in a democratic society and I have the right to dress how I like.'
Date filed: 10-03-2010

Massimo Pigliucci on Pseudo-metaphysics
'Ingeniously put together? By whom? And by what criterion of “ingenuity?”'
Date filed: 10-03-2010

Articles

Take One Traumatised Child
By Clare Sambrook
Classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger - Labour's Britain in 2010.
Date filed: 10-03-2010

The Spirituality of an Atheist
By Andrzej Koraszewski
Do atheists have any spirituality? Well what is 'spirituality'?
Date filed: 04-03-2010

Political Theory and the “Group Rights” Debate
By Joshua F. Leach
Individual rights are not Western prejudices; nor can they be thought of as simply one more culture among many.
Date filed: 17-02-2010

Iran Needs a United Democratic and Secular Opposition
By Jahanshah Rashidian
Our society is strong enough not bow to any ideology.
Date filed: 16-02-2010

Islam's Black Dog
By R Joseph Hoffmann
The easy equation between religion and goodness is a relatively modern invention.
Date filed: 13-02-2010

Humanism and the Quest for Justice in Africa
By Leo Igwe
Millions of people around the world are living, languishing, suffering and dying under unjust conditions imposed on them by fellow human beings.
Date filed: 08-02-2010

Amnesty International and Cageprisoners
By Gita Sahgal
The necessary defence of the torture standard has been inexcusably allied to the political legitimization of individuals and organisations belonging to the Islamic Right.
Date filed: 07-02-2010

Remember Them!
By Maryam Namazie
Two young men executed by the Islamic regime of Iran for ‘enmity against god’
Date filed: 03-02-2010

Reflections on John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty
By Eric B. Litwack
It can be said of very few texts that they are touchstones for important discussions across many generations.
Date filed: 09-01-2010

This Nonsense Must Stop
By Leo Igwe
Leo Igwe tells what happened, and that it will not stop him from fighting for justice for Daberechi Anomgam.
Date filed: 07-01-2010

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Fashionable Dictionary
Your guide to the language of pseudoscience and fashionable nonsense.

Woolly-Thinking Rhetoric
How to argue like a sheep. Vanquish your enemies with the help of our guide.

Quotations
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