More on Hawking and the (latest) death of god
Relegating God to the sidelines in this fashion has brought Hawking many headlines, and will no doubt help book sales. It’s also brought a swift flurry of predictably thoughtless responses from religious groups and leaders, who are desperate to reject the notion of God’s redundancy.
What would it take to prove you wrong?
When claims are unfalsifiable – in other words, where no possible evidence could ever disprove them – then we have no reason to believe that they are true descriptions of the world.
Errol Naidoo: still standing
Errol Naidoo wants to recruit you into a “financial partnership”. It’s a simple deal – you give him money, and he carries on being a reactionary homophobe.
Responsible reporting: At what cost?
A democratic society’s commitment to free speech does not have to trump any other considerations, but a press that is anything other than free is always, and everywhere, a very bad thing.
On rape by deception and state-sanctioned racism
It’s entirely unclear that any relevant deception took place, which brings the legitimacy of a guilty verdict into question. It is of course not commendable that Kashour was unfaithful to his wife, but these deceptions make him typical of a known sort of man, who employs typical sorts of falsehoods in pursuit of seduction. These falsehoods are not right, but they are also not normally a legal issue
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