1. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

...ruel,” she writes in The Meme Machine.   Some people, especially the religious, but also some leading religious scientists such as Francis Collins and John Polkinghome, propagate the NOMA...

2. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

I generally know what’s coming next when a parent asks about altering their child’s vaccine schedule: “I was reading Dr. Sears….” Dr. Sears is a genius. No, not in an A

3. Vatican rejects adoption of Italy's laws in historic shift
(Religion/General)

...r for Simplification whose job was to eliminate over 36,000 laws from the statute books. Marco Politi, a leading Vatican expert, said the true cause of Vatican alarm was not only “liberal&rdqu...

4. Who Started the War on Christmas?
(Religion/Atheism)

...quo;once respected conservative voice”—Brimelow founded what would become the internet’s leading anti-immigration web journal, VDare.com, named for the first British child born in th...

5. God will, in fact, be mocked
(Religion/Atheism)

...he United States, and pays a few visits to other countries, talking to religious believers and asking them leading questions. He visits the actor who plays Jesus at a Christian theme park, for instanc...

6. Religious sect 'brainwashing' Maties
(Religion/Shofar Shogood)

...ey detectors outside the classroom — is no good advertisement for what should be one of Africa's leading universities." The church denies that members are forced to make financial donat...

7. Changes may put 'therapists' out of work
(Medicine/General)

...inction between therapeutic - meaning that it was used for healing - and non-therapeutic treatments was misleading, as both required the same knowledge. Registered therapeutic practitioners would als...

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

... later, the British Advertising Standards Authority found that his advertisements contained a series of misleading and false claims and ordered the claims removed. Also in 2002, the US Food and Drug A...

9. Blair does God in interview to launch inter-faith foundation
(Religion/General)

...s: "I think faith gives you a certain strength and gives you a support in doing a job as difficult as leading a country." Blair will announce today that his Faith Foundation, to be run by hi...

10. Childish superstition: Einstein's letter makes view of religion relatively clear
(Religion/General)

...tive academic text on the subject, Max Jammer's book Einstein and Religion. One of the country's leading experts on the scientist, John Brooke of Oxford University, admitted he had not heard...

11. Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...he mass extermination of European Jewry. The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hat...

12. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda
(Religion/General)

... way. What singled Hitler out was the fact that he somehow managed to come to power in one of Europe's leading nations, which was also one of the world's most technologically advanced nations....

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

...portance of quality information was driven home by a recent study that revealed a tendency for false or misleading information regarding breast cancer to appear on web sites devoted to alternative med...

14. 'Jesus' cosmetic row in Singapore
(Religion/General)

A leading retailer in Singapore has withdrawn a cosmetics range with a Jesus theme after complaints from local Roman Catholics, local media report. The range, named Lookin' Good for Jesus, was on

15. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... do." A former military chaplain of a prestigious US military college reported being prevented from leading worship after disagreeing with the fundamentalist stance of other officials. "...

16. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

... antibiotics we throw at them, so we have evolved resistance to bacteria, only for them to counter-evolve, leading to selection favouring a change in us... and so on. Unusually big brains But our ...

17. Irish cardinal attempts to block publication of child abuse files
(Religion/General)

...hurch files, he argued that the documents were privileged and protected by lawyer-client confidentiality. Leading Irish canon lawyer and priest Tom Doyle has openly accused Connell of a cover up. &q...

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

...pened,” said Mr Sanderson. “Dr Williams takes us right back to the beginning with his special pleading for the protection of religious feelings – in other words, another form of blas...

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

... that many children begin receiving regular rounds of vaccinations. But reams of scientific studies by the leading American health authorities have failed to establish a causal link between the preser...

20. Three Little Pigs 'too offensive'
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...use of pigs raises cultural issues". Becta, the government's educational technology agency, is a leading partner in the annual schools award. The judges also attacked Three Little Cowboy Bu...

21. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...elf. When OAA is in sleep mode — as in deep meditation and prayer — that division breaks down, leading to a blurring of the lines between reality and fantasy, between feeling in body and o...

22. Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships
(Religion/Atheism)

...20th century Catholic or Protestant parties openly supported fascist regimes, often contributing clergy to leading government posts. If it is examples you want, there is the PPI in Italy, the Ustashe ...

23. Fish out of water: Your Inner Fish
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... collision between present and past has its signature in many of the ailments of modern life. What are the leading causes of death in humans? Four of the top ten causes—heart disease, diabetes, ...

24. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

... of not having to provide a diagnosis from the eye is that the practitioner simply uses the iris to create leading questions. Suppose I had a patient who had a mark in his lung area. My first question...

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

...vent a theory which described gravity while being consistent with quantum mechanics. (String theory is the leading candidate for such a theory, but it has not yet been fully developed to the point whe...

26. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

...nd Berzelius. In recent history, William Taft, Prescott Bush, both George Bushes and John Kerry are among leading American politicians who were nurtured by Skull and Bones. Those who are "educa...

27. US 'doomed' if creationist president elected say scientists
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... believe in the evolution arguments wouldn't believe in those other arguments either. This is a way of leading our country to ruin," added Omenn, who was part of a panel of experts at the lau...

28. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...e day or that some Unseen Urban Planner had carefully determined just which business went where. The other leading theorist of the new creationism, William A. Dembski, holds a Ph.D. in mathematics, an...