Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
As you might (or might not) know, I’m currently attending the World Humanist Congress in Oxford, and so as a result I’ve had the opportunity to meet some really truly amazing individuals. Pictured above between myself and Joan Bakewell is Peter Tatchell He is one truly amazing individual who has successfully campaigned over many decades and made … Read more
When several well-known individuals were asked to comment on specific issues today (on other topics I’ll not get into now), a response I heard several times was, “Well, I’m feeling very pessimistic about the current outlook for that” (or similar). Upon hearing that, and the associated justification for the opinion, I did think to myself, “actually, … Read more
If you are at TAM or know who SGU are, then you can just skip this bit and go directly to the pictures. Whenever I meet new people at TAM, I often ask, “What brings you here, how did you find out about it all?”. The answer that is perhaps the most common is one … Read more
The Amazing Meeting was off to a fabulous start yesterday and is as always living up to its name. The workshops have of course been great, but personally a huge highlight was being able to see the screening of “An Honest Liar” for the first time. If you are at TAM right now, then you can … Read more
The Center For Inquiry representative Josephine Macintosh delivered a statement that was very critical of Saudi Arabia for its repeated assaults on freedom of religion, belief, and expression at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on June 23, 2014 … The representative from Saudi Arabia, who sits on the human rights council, tried to step … Read more
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) is deeply concerned about the Nigerian Mubarak Bala (pictured above). Now this is important, so I’m reproducing their posting in full here (it originally came from here) … A Nigerian man has been detained and medicated for over a week on a psychiatric ward in Kano state, Nigeria, on the … Read more