1. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

...rplane flight away. The more unvaccinated children we have, the more likely an imported case will lead to larger outbreaks of disease. So yes, vaccinating protects the individual child as well as the ...

2. Next week, blasphemy gets its own holiday
(Religion/Atheism)

...idespread self-censorship by media. Lindsay said the Blasphemy Day events are part of his group’s larger Campaign for Free Expression, which encompasses more than protection of speech about re...

3. Top 10 Signs Of Evolution In Modern Man
(Science/General)

...he hairs and skin, creating insulation and warmth. In response to fear, goose bumps make an animal appear larger - hopefully scaring away the enemy. Humans no longer benefit from goose bumps and they ...

4. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

... pragmatic lines: When asked why he thinks that there is a diamond in his yard that is thousands of times larger than any yet discovered, he says things like, “This belief gives my life meaning,...

5. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

...or important causes like teaching evolution in the classroom. But there are definite limits. "In the larger war against supernaturalism, frankly, it doesn't help to fraternize with the enemy,...

6. Archbishop of Canterbury calls for new law to punish 'thoughtless or cruel' words
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...he adequacy of what is coming to replace it, we should not, I believe, miss the opportunity of asking the larger questions about what is just and good for individuals and groups in our society who hol...

7. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

..., kin and clan, can propel us on a path of moral progress, as our reasoning forces us to generalize it to larger and larger circles of sentient beings. Doing Better by Knowing Ourselves Morality, then...

8. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...tinctly white, the tradition of community activism and volunteering cuts across American culture, and the larger self-help tradition involving personal and communal development is a fairly pluralistic...

9. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...amping out traditional Chinese and foreign influences. When Mao declared war on religion it was part of a larger war on everything associated with traditional Chinese culture (Daoism and Buddhism, bei...

10. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...apparent gravitational force exerted by the galaxy on particles orbiting far around it is inevitably much larger than we would expect by taking into account the combined mass of all the visible materi...

11. Designer microbes to save us all
(Good news/All)

...p;     $100 Billion Industries      The energy market is so much larger than biopharmaceuticals that there's room for a plethora of blockbuster products, h...

12. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... unexplained. This was harmless enough as long as cells weren’t qualitatively more complex than the larger, more visible aspects of the eye. Yet when biochemists began to dissect the inner worki...