A guide to “alternative medicine” produced by Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Health, Complementary Healthcare: A Guide, that has been produced with over £900,000 of taxpayer’s money, is being asked to be recalled as it is claimed that:
[T]hey both contain numerous misleading and inaccurate claims concerning the supposed benefits of alternative medicine… The nation cannot [...]

From The Times Online’s Nature Notes.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Times: Ornithology (cartoon)”, url: “http://www.nullifidian.net/2008/03/12/the-times-ornithology-cartoon/” });

When checking out The Times‘ coverage of Darth Benedict’s recent theonastic diatribe (:-)) I noticed a link to a debate between (humanist) philosopher David Papineau, (sikh) occasional Thought for the Day presenter Inderjit Singh and (christian) theologian and co-director of Ekklesia Simon Barrow concerning religion in public life and whether a modern plural society [...]

I was in the pub yesterday, and was made aware that catholic wingnut-in-chief Ratzinger had been bad-mouthing science and atheism by playing the old Marxism=teh evul! card and playing up christianity because it offers “hope”. Earlier today, I saw a few posts on blogs (The Freethinker, Atheist Ethicist - highly recommended) and articles in [...]

An audio recording of the recent Intelligence2: We’d be better off without religion debate has been posted on the Times Online’s web site, and there’s also a related opinion piece.
The result for the vote is below.

We’d be better off without religion

Date
March 27, 2007

Votes
Online poll
Before debate
After debate

For
48.1%
44.1%
57.8%

Against
50.8%
36.4%
37.3%

Don’t know
1.1%
19.5%
4.9%

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Are we better off without religion? Audio”, [...]

In today’s The Times, William Rees-Mogg, the Times columnist of yesteryear, expounds on the virtues of christianity, initially with respect to slavery, and then goes on to lambast atheistic attitudes and final put out that overly worn (and well-dismissed) mantra that one cannot be moral without religion - in this case, christianity.
In the opening paragraph, [...]

In the most recent of The Times Higher Education Supplement, an article by Rowan Williams, the Archibishop of Canterbury, entitled It is not a crime to hold traditional values argues that the recent arguments over Christian Union (CU) organisations within various universities should be able to associate freely, and should look at their attitudes and [...]