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

...duct and fabric of people. Dawkins writes the “survival value of the god meme in the meme pool results from its great psychological appeal. It provides a superficially plausible answer to d...

2. Leading vaccine scaremonger debunked
(Medicine/General)

... too many parents develop similar fears. He warns that an increasing number of unvaccinated children will result in a resurgence of the disease. He couldn’t be more correct. Enlarging pockets of...

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

... publication of the controversial Muhammad cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The cartoons resulted in worldwide riots by outraged Muslims and widespread self-censorship by media. Lin...

4. Science is just one gene away from defeating religion
(Religion/Atheism)

..., which works well as a means of predicting the behaviour of other people - a belief that actions are the result of conscious intentions. Then could the pervasive human belief in supernatural forces a...

5. It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't
(Medicine/General)

...t; effect of the MMR vaccine was more pronounced for hospitalisations with severe asthma diagnoses. Those results aren't just incompatible with an increased risk of asthma following MMR vaccinatio...

6. How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
(Science/General)

...uot;. Reposted from : http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-anecdotal-evidence-can-undermine-scientific-results ...

7. Evolutionarily Preserved Signature Found In The Primate Brain
(Science/General)

... brain," says team leader Professor Elena Jazin, at Uppsala University, Sweden. In addition to the results mentioned above, the researchers also report on evolutionary speeds in genes that have...

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

...uraging patients to abandon conventional treatment in favour of his Aids “cures” — have resulted in at least a dozen deaths. Several countries have banned the sale of Rath’s pr...

9. Lizards make adaptive change
(Science/General)

...sequent trips in 2005 and 2006 that the wall lizards had changed dramatically in the intervening decades. Results of their study were published March 25 in the "Proceedings of the National Academ...

10. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

... of stars. It's another to marvel not only at the spectacle but to recognize that those stars are the result of exceedingly ordered conditions 13.7 billion years ago at the moment of the Big Bang....

11. Teacher tortures, kills boy
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...as expressed his deep sorrow and concern over the tragic death of Muhammad Atif, who reportedly died as a result of corporal punishment by his teacher," the statement said. Police said the teac...

12. Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
(Science/General)

...d so forth. Even now, in the U.K., the relatively dangerous disease of measles is becoming endemic as a result of a widespread consumer revolt against the MMR vaccine about 10 years ago. Parents bel...

13. Trouble ahead for science
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

... neither Steinberg nor any of the other people featured as martyrs in "Expelled" lost jobs as a result of their advocacy of Intelligent Design, while many others who supported evolution have...

14. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...uld be seen burning the Dutch flag; the Taliban carried out at least two revenge attacks on Dutch troops, resulting in five Dutch casualties; and security concerns have caused the Netherlands to close...

15. Research Volunteers Needed
(Science/General)

...gn stimuli that a majority of Christians will find doctrinally sound. I will, of course, pass along the results of this work the moment I have something to report. Many thanks for your help. All...

16. Darwin's Nemesis by William Dembski
(Book reviews/Reviews)

...existence of god – an attempt which like other “god of the gaps models” will eventually result in embarrassment. There is no doubt that they have their followers, but the same can be...

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

...growing faith in the country is no faith at all. The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the results of its "Religious Landscape" survey in February and found that 16 percent of...

18. Lots of water 'is little benefit'
(Medicine/General)

...While one small trial found that drinking more water appeared to lead to fewer headaches, they said these results were not statistically significant. And while dehydration can change the appearance o...

19. Psychic crackdown on the cards
(Paranormal/General)

...itualists say they will be forced to issue disclaimers, such as 'this is a scientific experiment, the results of which cannot be guaranteed'. They claim the new regulations will leave them ope...

20. They prayed to cast Satan from my body
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...r counsellors. Its literature claims to have a 90 per cent success rate - yet nowhere does it publish any results. The allegations by Johnson, Canham-Wright, Smith and others indicates the program c...

21. Hatred and Ignorance on the Web
(Religion/General)

...reign Policy will not change it. The act of hating does nothing but fill you with positive reinforcement, resulting in Schadenfreude and fulfillment – this is expounded when you get others to ha...

22. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

...ion with happiness" could "well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse, that could result in an extermination as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environment...

23. Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology
(Religion/General)

...heufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences communication, presented new survey results that show religion exerts far more influence on public views of technology in the Unit...

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

...tly engineered BMW engine, random tweaks often make things worse rather than better. Such changes tend to result in genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis. In the cruel natural world the unfortuna...

25. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

...gain their long-lost happiness, swords would magically turn into plowshares, churches would empty and the resultant collapse in the market-price for incense would alone reverse global warming. Richard...

26. New atheists or new anti-dogmatists?
(Religion/Atheism)

... times been passionately believed and acted upon by otherwise rational, sane and civilised people - often resulting in those people performing some of the most irrational, insane and barbaric acts ima...

27. God's journal
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ithin a biblical framework." "Answers Research Journal will provide scientists and students the results of cutting-edge research that demonstrates the validity of the young-earth model, the ...

28. Krugel: 'Maddie lies here'
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

... to his frustration at the lack of progress in the case, the ex-cop - dubbed "The Locator" as a result of his high rate of success in tracing missing people in SA - has broken his silence ab...

29. SA man's hunt for Maddie
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

...imated. Krugel had a proven record of finding people and his methods were extremely credible, while the results matched many other strands of the investigation. Krugel, meanwhile, is back home in B...

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

...nal series make that incorrect conclusion about a link” between vaccines and autism “and as a result choose not to vaccinate their own children, the consequences could be devastating,&rdqu...