From Martin Weatherall This is a very interesting article that I found on the Gaurdian website (one of the top London newspapers). If we could provide the reporter and the professor with information about how electrical pollution influences allergies, it may be a great help to our cause. Martin. The asthma plague There are millions [...]
George Bush: ‘God Told Me to End the Tyranny in Iraq’ By Ewen MacAskill The Guardian UK Friday 07 October 2005 President told Palestinians, God also talked to him about Middle East peace. George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to [...]
BOOK REVIEW: God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia The Age Reviewer: Muriel Porter February 26, 2005 God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia By Marion Maddox, Allen & Unwin, $29.95 Australia journalists are, in general, notoriously ignorant about religion. Academic surveys regularly reveal that they are [...]
Step to the right as the brethren gather force September 14, 2005 A scandal in New Zealand over election money from a fringe group reflects a trend, writes Marion Maddox. The women wear headscarves in public. Their religion opposes assimilation, and they educate children at home or in their own schools. Fearing the taint of [...]
The Royal Society: Twilight for the Enlightenment?
From Dr Paul Stevens, the medicalrenaissance group: Twilight for the Enlightenment? Lord May of Oxford, the outgoing president of the Royal Society (the UK’s academy of science) has criticised fundamentalist religion in his anniversary speech. May begins with an explanation of Enlightenment values: What are these values? They are tolerance of diversity, respect for individual [...]