1. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...erely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years. In a world riven by ignorance, only the atheist refuses to deny ...

2. Quackery quashed, but Rath’s legacy lives
(Medicine/General)

...onventional treatment in favour of his Aids “cures” — have resulted in at least a dozen deaths. Several countries have banned the sale of Rath’s products. His well-documented o...

3. Sharon Stone blames China's earthquake on karma
(Religion/General)

...t;I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the death of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored," she told an Arab newspaper. "War is not a movie, it is a traged...

4. Faith healing church parents charged over toddler's death
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ed on $250,000 (£126,000) bail. The church was at the centre of controversy in the 1990s after the deaths of several children attracted the attention of the authorities. It led to the passage o...

5. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...have saved the US $43 billion and prevented 1.8 million cases that would have led to tens of thousands of deaths. Despite the lack of evidence for harm, however, vaccines are getting the blame for a v...

6. Alarmist TV Drama on Autism and Vaccination
(Medicine/General)

...ver the next two to six years, outbreaks of measles soared in Britain and Ireland, causing at least three deaths and hundreds of children to be hospitalized. Among the organizations that have studied...

7. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...i war criminals to South America. War criminals like Ustashe leader Ante Pavelic (responsible for 700,000 deaths) would also flee to Rome before being smuggled to Peron's Argentina. But what of de...