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How can the state justify supporting homeopathy? | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
As a group of Labour MPs brings Parliament into yet more disrepute by claiming immunity from prosecution for fiddling their expenses, we are at risk of forgetting altogether the good work which many backbench MPs do, work which is buried in obscurity even at the best of times.
Yesterday, for example, the Science and Technology committee of the House of Commons met to conclude its inquiry into Alternative Medicine. Its members were courteous, polite even to a fault, a far cry from the aggressive made-for-TV grandstanding of the equivalent Congressional bodies in the US; but by the end of a few brief sessions, they had reduced to intellectual rubble the multi-million pound pseudo-medical lobby known as homeopathy – and left equally ragged the regulators and ministers who connive in its skilful mystifications of the public, writes Dominic Lawson in The Independent
 
Mightier than the kirpan | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
We must do all we can to protect the rights of people to enjoy the way of life they choose. But there are more important battles to fight with regard to religious intolerance than whether Sikh kids can wear kirpans to school. Perhaps I'm being too literal, but all religions could do with taking a step back from symbols and icons and explore a little more deeply the philosophical content of what their belief system hopes to offer the world, writes Hardeep Singh Kohli in The Guardian
 
We might err, but science is self-correcting | Print |  Email
Monday, 08 February 2010
My non-scientist friends are beginning to ask me “What’s gone wrong with science?” Revelations about melting glaciers and potentially dodgy emails about global warming, the resurfacing of Andrew Wakefield and the MMR scare, and the sacking of the Government’s drugs adviser, have created the impression for some people that science is in a mess, writes John Krebs in the Times
 
Still no hope of common sense in the war against anti-Semitism | Print |  Email
Monday, 08 February 2010
One would not choose to roll around naked in a field of nettles. One learns that choosing to write on anti-Semitism is just as rash, possibly more so. Protesters and malicious maligners stalk anyone who ventures on to the subject. And for the only Muslim weekly columnist in the country (who knows for how long) to tread into that field is extreme recklessness. Or reveals a worrying proclivity for masochism. Stinging rebukes will arrive before I am awake and all manner of outrageous allegations will roam the streets of the internet, rogue rumours against which there is no defence. Every word typed can be distorted or has the potential to offend. The column will madden both hyper-Zionists and insufferable Islamicists. So divisive is the issue today that many who see themselves as "reasonable" Muslims and Jews may not be too happy either. Ah well so be it. No more procrastination. Unto the breach dear friends, writes Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in The Independent.
 
Church's daft and cruel teachings have no place in civil law | Print |  Email
Sunday, 07 February 2010
Pope Benedict should keep his Holy Roman nose well out of civil affairs, writes Emer O'Kelly in The Irish Independent
 
Let’s see the Pope’s agenda for what is it: interference | Print |  Email
Saturday, 06 February 2010
Is there still such a thing as the Catholic vote? It doesn’t seem likely. The days when political instruction could be handed down from the pulpit and accepted without much argument are long gone. For the Church of Rome, as for every other church, that’s probably just as well, writes Ian Bell in The Herald
 
Church should accept equal rights for gays, says David Cameron | Print |  Email
Saturday, 06 February 2010
In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, Mr Cameron said that “our Lord Jesus” would back equality and gay rights if he were alive. He said that he did not want to get into a row with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, but the Church should recognise that equal rights for gays was “essential”, reports Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times
 
Pope says separate Catholic schools help combat sectarianism | Print |  Email
Saturday, 06 February 2010
The Pope has launched an unprecedented defence of separate Catholic schooling in Scotland, claiming that the system helps to combat sectarianism and promote good community relations, reports Charlene Sweeney in The Times
 
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