A few weeks ago, the political blogosphere united to condemn the actions of Alisher Usmanov and his lawyers for attempting to shut down Craig Murray’s blog. We were right to do so; what made Usmanov’s actions particularly reprehensible was the way he used the law to intimidate Murray’s hosting company while cowardly avoiding a fight… Continue reading Homeopaths resort to legal action to cure all headaches
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It’s sex, Jim, but not as we know it
I, for one, welcome our new asexual overlords… Humans and most other types of organism reproduce sexually. The union of sperm and eggs results in two copies (or a pair) of genetic instructions within a cell, one copy inherited from each parent. This produces two nearly identical copies of each gene in each cell, and… Continue reading It’s sex, Jim, but not as we know it
The true enemies of reason
I saw Richard Dawkin’s two-part documentary The Enemies of Reason a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been meaning to add a note of criticism here. It’s not that I disagree with his assessment that people such as spirit mediums and alternative health gurus are not antithetical to enlightenment values; far from it. My problem… Continue reading The true enemies of reason