New Humanist is the London based magazine of the Rationalist Association, promoting reason, debate and free thought since 1885. In addition the New Humanist website features daily updates and a lively weblog.
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Bad Faith Awards - VOTE NOW
Polls have just opened to decide who wins the 2009 New Humanist Bad Faith Award. There are 10 leading charlatans to choose from - here's how our in-house rationalist bookies Paddy Gower (Street) have priced up the field:
Adnan Oktar 7/2 F; Pope Benedict XVI 8/1; British Chiropractic Associatio...n 10/1; Anjem Choudary 10/1; Damain Thompson 12/1, Anthony Bush 14/1, Dermot Aherne 16/1, Cormac Murphy O'Connor 25/1, Tony Blair 40/1, Terry Eagleton & Karen Armstrong 50/1.Read more
Polls have just opened to decide who wins the 2009 New Humanist Bad Faith Award. There are 10 leading charlatans to choose from - here's how our in-house rationalist bookies Paddy Gower (Street) have priced up the field:
Adnan Oktar 7/2 F; Pope Benedict XVI 8/1; British Chiropractic Associatio...n 10/1; Anjem Choudary 10/1; Damain Thompson 12/1, Anthony Bush 14/1, Dermot Aherne 16/1, Cormac Murphy O'Connor 25/1, Tony Blair 40/1, Terry Eagleton & Karen Armstrong 50/1.Read more
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
Who should win the 2009 Bad Faith Award? Vote now using the poll at the top right of this page - see shortlist below for more on the challengers.Ladies and gentleman, the time has come. For months now, ...
New Humanist Magazine Creationist zoo suspended from British zoo association
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
When I was writing about the insidious creationism on display at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm near Bristol, I asked Miranda Stevenson, director of the British and Irish Association of Zoos (BIAZA), why a zoo with such an anti-scientific agenda had been allowed to become a member of her organisation. ...
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Exciting news - we've just added Dara O Briain and Al Murray to the bill for the Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People show at the Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 20 December.
Tickets are still available - full details in the blog post
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
If you're coming to the final night of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 20 December, then we have some very exciting news – we can now announce that ...
New Humanist Magazine The "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" section on the Amazon page for Sarah Palin's autobiography is truly terrifying:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
Just now, I stumbled across the Amazon.com page for Sarah Palin's forthcoming, already-bestselling, autobiography Going Rogue: An American Life. The thing about the page that I picked up on, and made a brief observation about on Twitter, was that the price is $9, knocked down from $28.99. ...
New Humanist Magazine A new book reveals the inside workings of the Church of Scientology which, for it's author, involved talking to ashtrays and doorknobs with Tom Cruise:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
When it comes to putting the boot into Scientology, things really seem to have opened up in the past couple of years. Famously litigious, the Church of Scientology always tended to meet criticism with legal threats (it even sent one to New Humanist in relation to this piece back in the day). ...
New Humanist Magazine In our new issue, Seth Kalichman explains how to spot an AIDS denialist -
Source: newhumanist.org.uk
Rogues, pseudoscientists, snake oil peddlers – Seth Kalichman reveals the sinister tactics used by those who deny the link between HIV and AIDS
New Humanist Magazine Has Dinesh D'Souza found conclusive evidence for an afterlife? Take a wild guess if you like...
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
American readers will know all too well who Dinesh D'Souza is, while readers here in Britain may remember that he was the recipient of our inaugural Bad Faith Award in 2007, having said "Notice something ...
New Humanist Magazine Recently, both the Boston Globe and the New York Times have run pieces on the continuing rise of Islamic creationism and, inevitably, our old friend Adnan Oktar gets lengthy mentions in both:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
In the past week or so, two leading US newspapers have run pieces on the continuing rise of creationism in the Islamic world. Observing that Muslim countries regularly come bottom of polls monitoring the ...
New Humanist Magazine Now the Vatican's having a go at Hallowe'en (according to the Daily Mail, anyway, and who are we to doubt it?)
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
Is it just me, or is this year a bumper one for religious attacks on Hallowe'en? In the past month, we've had Methodists in Derry trying to ban an annual Hallowe'en carnival that sounds like lots of fun (music, magic shows, fireworks ... ...
New Humanist Magazine Somewhat ironically, Catholic blogger Damian Thompson got a bit upset when Richard Dawkins put the boot into the Vatican in a newspaper column. Here's the story:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
Last week, I wrote about the debate I attended on whether "The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world", in which Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens, presenting the case for the prosecution, ...
New Humanist Magazine Irish bookies Paddy Power are taking bets on who'll be the next celeb to leave Scientology. John Travolta the favourite:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
I learn via Damian Thompson's blog (not a blog with which my interests often converge, it has to be said), that bookmakers Paddy Power, who seem to pride themselves on taking bets on bizarre subjects, have opened a market on which celebrity will be the next to leave the Church of Scientology. ...
New Humanist Magazine Agnostics ponder atheist invitation
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
In a gesture which dramatically parallels the recent “come-and-join-us” invitation from the Pope to disaffected Anglicans, the Rationalist Association has opened its door to thousands of can’t-quite-decide agnostics. ...
New Humanist Magazine Saw Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens comprehensively defeat Ann Widdecombe and John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Nigeria in a debate over whether the Catholic Church is a force for good last night. Here's a report:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
Last night, I went along to the Intelligence Squared debate on whether "the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world" at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster. It was a fairly grand affair, not ...
New Humanist Magazine Skinned tigers? Circus animals? To think that I was worried about creationism when I visited Noah's Ark Zoo farm:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
Back in September, I wrote about the insidious creationism on display at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm, a Biblical zoo aimed at kids on the outskirts of Bristol. Do have a read of my piece if you haven't already - some of it's fairly shocking, they promote young-earth creationism there and everything. ...
New Humanist Magazine There's been a very intriguing development in the Simon Singh / BCA libel case - could a premature press release have ended the whole thing?
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
In what appears to have been a mistake on their part, the British Chiropractic Association this morning published a press release on their website which stated that it "was maliciously attacked by [Simon Singh] in the Guardian newspaper". ...
