Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
I came across the following story by Faiza Mirza about her own forced conversion on Dawn.com and it touched my heart, so much so that I repeat it here … I grew up in fear – every face around me depicted nothing but fear. I am sure that the first expression on my parent’s face … Read more
Richard Dawkins would like all children to read the bible … no really, he seriously does, and has an article in the UK’s Guardian today all about it. OK, so what is the story here? The context is that the UK’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove, cooked up a plan last year to send one copy of the King James … Read more
Winston Hide is the associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. There he specialises in the bioinformatics of genomic approaches to public health. He also used to be the associate editor of Genomics, a top tier peer-reviewed scientific journal, but no longer is because he … Read more
Nice article in the Telegraph today …Tom Chivers, their assistant comment editor points out that the folks who are stongly pushing the “traditional” marriage viewpoint might not appreciate what rests within the scope of that tradition. For example, we have Mitt Romney pushing the tradition of marriage being one man and one woman, yet … … … Read more
The good news is that Obama has come out in favor of gay marriage. This is truly good news, not because Obama now supports it but rather because things have now moved forward sufficiently for this to be said by him in public as a campaign issue. We don’t have to go very far back … Read more
This one truly takes the biscuit … sitting smack bang in the middle of the careers advertisements within Today’s UK Guardian is an advert for a “Torturer”, starting on £16,000 to £21,000 a year. (This is the point at which you insert your completely gob smacked stunned silence) … the ad in question reads … The government of a Middle … Read more