The National Institutes of Mental Health – the largest research organisation devoted to studying mental health – has decided that patients deserve better than to be diagnosed according to DSM V, typically regarded as the “Bible” of psychiatry.
PZ Myers’s “divorce” from skepticism highlights how we sometimes forget how trivial our disagreements – and the actors in those disagreements – are. All these blogs, quabbles, rifts and so forth are sometimes operating in some crude filter-bubbles, where we can become sanctimonious, defiant, and so stubborn that we’re unable to see our own errors.
The IHEU World Humanist Congress is an opportunity to strengthen the host organisation, the local Humanist movement, to connect organisations together internationally, and to examine a theme in-depth, with workshops and debate, and high profile speakers drawn from across the world.
South Africa has an education policy which goes a long way towards separating church and state, while also allowing for expression of diverse religious and non-religious viewpoints. A pity, then, that the policy is routinely ignored in favour of Christian proselytising.
Brian Dunning has entered a guilty plea following charges of wire fraud. Should his criminal record be regarded as relevant to the respect that those who regard him as a spokesperson have, or used to have, for him?
SINergy launches today, and offers a platform for highlighting the audio,video and press engagements of the SiN writers.
The IHEU recently issued a call to action regarding the persecution of atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. Three have been arrested, and a list of 84 of them have been handed to the government – by Islamist political parties – with a request that they all be arrested.
Making progress in resolving disagreements with regard to culture, values and religious beliefs is difficult enough, given the emotive nature of the beliefs in question. We could perhaps make the task slightly easier through paying attention to not misrepresenting each other, and also sometimes through getting our own houses in order.
There exists a book called “Numerology for Oscar Pistorius” – further proof that the opportunism of woo-woo purveyors knows no bounds.
The Church of England recently released survey data which purports to show that 4 out of 5 people believe in the power of prayer. Except, the survey shows nothing of the sort. Instead, it exposes the CoE as blatant liars for Jesus.
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