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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New Humanist Magazine The Vatican's been having a go at Twilight - you'd think they'd appreciate the abstinence message:
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
I have to say I was amused to see that Monsignor Franco Perazzolo of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture has been passing comment on New Moon, the latest film in the teenage vampire saga Twilight. Here's what he had to say:
New Humanist Magazine Kiss My Ring - Vatican unveils tour poster for Pope Benedict's 2010 visit to Britain
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
When we heard back in September that Pope Benedict XVI is set to grace Britain next year, we realised that, with the entourage and stadium masses, there's a certain rockstar quality to a Papal visit. So ...
New Humanist Magazine Vote rationally at the next election with the help of Skeptical Voter, a new online tool that aims to list the views of all MPs and candidates on evidence-based policy.
Source: blog.newhumanist.org.uk
If you're the type of voter who likes to pay attention to the candidates, rather than just the parties they represent, then you may be interested in a new online initiative called Skeptical Voter, which ...
New Humanist Magazine In the New Humanist office, we're overjoyed to have found this - it's a video of Turkish creationist Adnan Oktar analysing a copy of our magazine in response to our exposé from September. From now on, this is our video ad. Enjoy:
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This is the best thing we've seen in a long, long time, if not ever – in response to our exposé, "Sex, flies and videotape: the secret lives of Harun Yahya" in the September/October issue, Turkish ...
New Humanist Magazine The second phase of the Atheist Bus Campaign (billboard edition) has just been launched today
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The Atheist Bus Campaign is back on our streets, although this time it's not actually taking place on buses – billboards have gone up in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast featuring children alongside the slogan "Please don’t label me. ...
New Humanist Magazine Leaflets warning against an inter-governmental plot to kill 92% of the world's population using Tamiflu and the swine flu vaccine have been appearing on the London Underground...
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On the way home from work last night, as I sat on London's Piccadilly Line, a man briefly sat next to me who seemed a little on edge. He was fidgeting and looking around, which I have to say was starting ...
New Humanist Magazine Adnan Oktar has issued a refutation of our exposé, which appeared in our September issue. It's certainly an interesting read....
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I had a week off last week, which in my line of work often means a week living in blissful ignorance of the activities of the world's fantasists and charlatans. Of course, the return to work always results ...
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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 -
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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 ...
