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Sneak Play Foiled: Ala.legislator’s Creationism scheme fails to score

Good news from Alabama! A backdoor creationism bill has failed.According to our friends at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), “When the last day of the regular legislative session of the Alabama legislature ended on May 16, 2012, a bill that would have established a credit-for-creationism scheme died.”

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Distrust of atheists is reduced if people have confidence in law and order

May 16, 2012 1 Comment

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll have come across work by Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan, at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Previously, they’ve shown that atheists in North America are are disliked because they are distrusted, an…

Jesus shares your political views – but is more extreme

May 15, 2012 1 Comment

Lee Ross, a Psychologist at Stanford University in California, and colleagues have polled over 1,200 Americans about their political views, and also what opinions they thought Jesus held.

Unsurprisingly, liberals thought Jesus was generally a pretty…

BHA signs letter expressing concern at pseudo-scientific Maharishi and Steiner Free Schools

May 14, 2012 No Comment

A letter in yesterday’s Observer expressing concern about pseudo-scientific Free Schools has been signed by the British Humanist Association (BHA). Amongst others, the letter was also signed by Edzard Ernst, Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter; David Colquhoun, Professor of Pharmacology at University College London; and the science writer Simon Singh, and is specifically directed at Maharishi and Steiner schools.

Another child dies by faith healing — trial begins

May 10, 2012 1 Comment

Once again, the power of prayer is evident in the death of Zachery Swezey, 17, of a burst appendix. His negligent parents, Greg and JaLea Swezey, are going on trial for second-degree murder.

Travesty in Tennessee: Death by faith healing gets a misdemeanor

May 9, 2012 5 Comments

A travesty in Tennessee, as a neglectful mother and her lover/spiritual advisor get probation as punishment for allowing a teenager to die of cancer without medical treatment.

International religiosity surveys – who’s up, who’s down? And why.

May 9, 2012 No Comment

You may have seen the recent splurge of news stories about how religious different countries are. Depending on where you looked, you may have come away thinking either that belief is in decline worldwide, that Catholic countries are the most religious, or even that people get more religious as they get older. Unless you were reading carefully, you may not even have realised they were talking about the same report!

Non-religious more likely to donate their bodies to science and organs to other people

May 9, 2012 No Comment

Here’s a simple, but compelling study. Jon Cornwall (University of Otago, New Zealand) and colleagues from Ireland and South Africa surveyed 200 people who had registered to donate their body to science in those three countries.

Cannibalicious! South Korean officials find 17,000 capsules of powdered human baby

May 7, 2012 4 Comments

Did you ever ask whether baby powder was “made with real babies”?

Seems some people believe that baby corpses have magical healing and vitality-enhancing powers. They are selling powdered baby capsules.

Heartland ignorant of public relations – let alone science

May 5, 2012 No Comment

You don’t have to hang around the internet for long to recognise the “silo” phenomena. The way the ideological group-thinkers will hang around specific sites feeding their belief. Then there is the “echo-chamber” – the way that bloggers and commenters … Continue reading →

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David Tiffany on ESRC release new research findings on Humanist funeralsThe way that people who do not believe in the afterlife are commemorated is that. . .
Jim Vaughan on Fox News guest Rev Jesse Lee Peterson says women shouldn’t be allowed to voteReally?? And just how much of that debt is Obama responsible for?? Obama has accumulated. . .
Stan on Blood of Christ popsicles elicit Catholic whineCome on, you don't need "Jesus-on-a-stick" to raise religious eyebrows with; this is why we. . .
George R. Grajeda on Why won’t Inland Revenue subsidise my life expenses?Time for religions to pay taxes like the rest of us.
George R. Grajeda on Why won’t Inland Revenue subsidise my life expenses?$ 71 Billion in direct and indirect subsidies to religion by unbelievers.

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Sneak Play Foiled: Ala.legislator’s Creationism scheme fails to score

Distrust of atheists is reduced if people have confidence in law and order

Jesus shares your political views – but is more extreme

BHA signs letter expressing concern at pseudo-scientific Maharishi and Steiner Free Schools

Another child dies by faith healing — trial begins

Travesty in Tennessee: Death by faith healing gets a misdemeanor

International religiosity surveys – who’s up, who’s down? And why.

Non-religious more likely to donate their bodies to science and organs to other people

Cannibalicious! South Korean officials find 17,000 capsules of powdered human baby

Heartland ignorant of public relations – let alone science

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Why the Victorian State Government Parliamentary inquiry must and will fail

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