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Atheists 'just as ethical as churchgoers' | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
People who have no religion know right from wrong just as well as regular worshippers, according to the study. The team behind the research found that most religions were similar and had a moral code which helped to organise society. But people who did not have a religious background still appeared to have intuitive judgments of right and wrong in common with believers, according to the findings, published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences. From The Telegraph
 
How Amnesty chose the wrong poster-boy | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
If you were a prisoner of conscience, a dissident, hounded by the authorities, imprisoned without proper process, shut up, shut in and shut down, then an organisation such as Amnesty International might be your one breath of air. Those Amnesty postcards, which seem like flinging a dart from a mountainside, may keep someone from despair. So the news that there is trouble at Amnesty is not welcome, except to tyrants. And yet it is hard not to see these ructions as being Amnesty’s own fault, writes David Aronovitch in The Times
 
DaveWatch: the reincarnated Blair Lama puts Christians right on homosexuality | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 09 February 2010
It was always axiomatic that if Dave Cameron wanted to display unimpeachable credentials as the Heir of Blair, then he would have to demonstrate that he had inherited the hotline to God, the divine inspiration and easy familiarity with the Deity that distinguished his predecessor. Nothing less would prove he was truly the reincarnated Lama. Now Dave has duly manifested his destiny as the anointed successor of Tony, by assuming supreme authority in matters spiritual as well as temporal, writes Gerald Warner in The Telegraph
 
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
 
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