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Category Archives: debate
Science and Economics
Cross-posted on Ricochet: The Guardian: One of Saudi Arabia’s leading conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom’s male-only driving rules. … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Science & Faith
Tagged Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism, Natalism, Saudi Arabia, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, Turkey
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Pastoral Care
The BBC reports: Some young HIV patients are giving up their medicine after being told by Pentecostal Church pastors to rely on faith in God instead, doctors warn. Medical staff told the BBC a minority of pastors in England were … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Faith
Tagged faith-healing, Multiculturalism, Pentecostalism, superstition, UK
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Round and Round
Over at the American Conservative, Noah Millman is frustrated by the nature of the debate between scientists (or “science popularizers”) and theists. I feel like we go around this track every other month. A scientist or science-popularizer writes an unpersuasive … Continue reading
Science & Conspiracy
Daniel Pipes: The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and a physician, suggested at about this time in 2003 that the vaccination program in his … Continue reading
Earth Day!
Cross-posted on the Corner: Over at AEI Mark Perry celebrates Earth Day with quotes from Steven Landsburg’s book The Armchair Economist, including this: [E]nvironmentalists — at least the ones I have met — have no real interest in maintaining the … Continue reading
Leon Kass is not alone (Sadly)
Via Andrew Sullivan we have this piece by William B. Hurlbut, Consulting Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University Medical Center, a man of science, who is, it turns out, also a fan of the benevolently deranged Francis of … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Faith
Tagged Bio-ethics, biotechnology, Leon Kass, medical technology, St. Francis, Suffering as a blessing, William Hurlbut
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Such Sweet Suffering
The Wall Street Journal has interviewed “eminent bioethicist” (itself a contradiction in terms) Leon Kass. The trigger was the Gosnell trial, but it was this aspect of Kass’s remarks that drew my attention: Dr. Kass sometimes finds himself at odds … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, Religion, Science & Faith
Tagged Bio-ethics, Leon Kass, medical technology, Suffering as a blessing
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“Islamophobia”
In an earlier post here, Mr. Hume and Jackson Doughart, reacting to an exchange between Glenn Greenwald and Sam Harris, discuss (amongst many things) the way that the notion of ‘Islamophobia’ has been used to try to stifle those who … Continue reading
Posted in culture, debate, politics, Religion
Tagged Femen, Islamophobia, Multiculturalism, Sam Harris
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Trickster Padre
I happened to come across this 2011 piece by CSI’s Joe Nickell the other day: …In fact, notwithstanding the claims in uncritical biographies, Pio’s stigmata devolved—from bleeding wounds that could easily have been self-inflicted (like those of many fake stigmatists … Continue reading
First Amendment, Second Amendment
The Economist picks up on this letter from 64 Roman Catholic theologians in favor of gun control. With so much talk of late of the supposed attack on religious freedom represented by Obamacare’s contraception mandate, this passage caught my eye: … Continue reading
Posted in Church & State, debate, law, politics
Tagged contraception, Religious Left, Roman Catholicism, Second Amendment
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