Libel laws here in the UK are ridiculous. They are vastly skewed in favour of the accuser, with a huge burden on those who are accused. Given that average libel cases run into the millions of £s, it’s an effective way of silencing debate and dissent – just as the recent case brought by the [...]
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The recent earthquake in Haiti is a major disaster. From the what I have heard and read there are thousands, probably hundreds of thousands dead, and the immediate area is in chaos. Governments and organisations the world over are promising aid and financial assistance, and people of all beliefs are dipping into their pockets to give money to the various aid agencies that have sprung into [...]  January 15th, 2010 |  Tags: Aid, Disaster, Earthquake, Haiti, Pat Robertson, Pope |  Category: General, News, Religion |  5 comments | Happy Christmas everyone! Hope you are with the people you want to be with, eating the food you want to eat, and receiving the gifts you want to receive. This is just shoddy journalism of the highest order. I had considered The Times to be a reasonably balanced and reliable news source, but if this article is anything to go by that perception is well off the mark. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6925781.ece BHA Please Dont Label Me poster November 23rd, 2009 | Tags: Atheist, Evidence, Free Speech, Human Rights, Humanism, Rationalism, Richarsd Dawkins | Category: Atheism, News, Religion | 3 comments | According to this Poll, 54% of UK Adults support the teaching of Creationism alongside Evolution in science [...] Breaking news story from the USA, Jaycee Lee Dugard who was kidnapped 18 years ago has been found alive and being held captive by one Phillip [...] August 28th, 2009 | Tags: Jaycee Lee Dugard, Jesus, Josef Fritzl, Kidnapped, Nutter, Phillip Garrido | Category: News, Religion | One comment | today I am celebrating the completion yet another circumnavigation of the star Sol without dying. (It’s my birthday). I know I’m a bit late with this, but I was on holiday and not keeping up with the blogging world (yes, it is possible Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all, but the research suggests chiropractic therapy has mixed results – and can even be lethal, says Simon [...] August 10th, 2009 | Tags: Chiropractic, Simon Singh | Category: Health, News, Science | Leave a comment | The Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art is currently hosting an exhibition where visitors are invited to write in a copy of the Bible. The idea seems to have been originally put forward by Metropolitan Community Church with the aim of reclaiming the Bible as a sacred text. Predictably however it hasn’t exactly gone as the organisers had [...] July 24th, 2009 | Tags: Bible, Defaced, Free Speech, Freedom, Gallery, Glasgow, Modern Art | Category: News, Religion | Leave a comment | According to the Right Reverend Paul Richardson, the Church of England is in freefall at the moment, and could well cease to exist as soon as 30 years from [...] July 13th, 2009 | Tags: Cease to Exist, Church of England, Paul Richardson | Category: News, Religion | Leave a comment | This is excellent news, and backs up other recent reports that show that the Church and religion in general is becoming increasingly less imports to the younger [...] The Florida Atheist and Secular Humanist Society has put up a billboard on I-95, and the locals are not [...] OK, this just makes me sick. Some religious wacko parents have a daughter who is obviously very ill. Their religion dictates that they don’t seek medical help, but instead they must pray, lay on hands, and fast etc. Funnily enough (although funny is the last thing that it actually is), their daughter died as a result of their [...] July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: CAM, Complementary, faith healing, Medicine | Category: Health, News, Religion, Stupidity | Leave a comment | The St Petersburg Times has done an excellent expose on that cult known as Scientology. It’s an interesting, if worrying read, and it shows that it’s run by a wacko with some serious personality [...] The current Swine Flu epidemic has prompted the company I work for to install little bottles of alcohol based hand sanitisers everywhere. I quickly scanned the label on one today and noticed it claims to kill 99.999% of all bacteria. That sounds impressive, but it made me think, what exactly does that [...] |
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). Anyway, here is a copy of Simons article that got him in trouble.