On Professor David Colquhuon’s blog, there was a discussion about the closing of the Tunbridge Wells Homeopathy Hospital (I use that last word advisedly). This comment from Le Canard Noir struck some bells:

The real menace comes not from medical homeopaths, but from lay ( Read more... )

I’m getting really fed up and pissed off at these utterly heartless bastards who would sacrifice someone’s health for the sake of their own paranoid fantasies.

By the Daily Mail’s own admission in the article, HPV is responsible for 700 deaths from cervical cancer every year. But they “revealed”, in their best stoke-the-controversy fashion, that ( Read more... )

Just a short Beyond Parody today, as I’m really a bit stunned at this whole scenario. I’m really having second thoughts about putting it in this category, which I’ve been reserving for light-hearted stupidities.

But no matter, it certainly fits with the spirit of things. Never in all my life could I have predicted this. According to the state of ( Read more... )

I’ve decided to start a new category to put mind-boggling stuff in. Stuff (like the Conservapedia) which is beyond anything a keen satirist could come up with on their own.

For the first in this new series I would like to introduce GodTube, the Christian version of YouTube. Tagline: Broadcast Him. Presumably YouTube is too secular or something.

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This is as much as anyone needs to know on the subject:

I mean, my only problem with creationism is it being discussed as theory instead of as pointless solipsistic wanking.

From Slashdot. I lol’d (literally).

Thanks to the stalwart efforts of robhu I got to watch Jesus Camp the other day.

It is, as you might guess, about a kids’ camp run by, and for, evangelical Christians. The kids do the summer camp stuff which they don’t show much of (go-karting, you get the idea) and lots of Pentecostal praising, sermons and lectures.
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The Sikh who was assaulted in Edinburgh is getting rather too much attention for an inconsequential aspect of the assault. From the BBC, he was:

1. subjected to verbal racial abuse
2. punched
3. kicked to the ground
4. threatened with a knife
5. had his hair cut

Just you have a read of this fantastic essay. It discusses religion and respect and puts eloquently many of the thoughts I have had about belief recently. Particularly in light of the whole veil-wearing thing with Jack Straw and then that teacher.

The comments (or at least the first 10 or so that I've read) are very positive; and I would like to ( Read more... )

If Jesus died and was resurrected why are Christians still waiting for the Second Coming? Surely the next one is the Third Coming?

Gasmonso over at Religious Freaks has a couple of very good quotes from Syrian psychiatrist Wafa Sultan on the general state of the Middle East. I think you know - or can guess - my opinions on the dangerous effects of religion, but this is what she has to say about it:

In our countries [Algeria and Syria], religion is the sole source of ( Read more... )