Category: Political correctness
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Against Enlightenment: The Enlightenment was not light. The Enlightenment is darkness.
Since as early as 17th century – the era of René Descartes and Benedict De Spinoza – opposition to the church and faith in “logic” was starting to be the new fashion. [1] Later on, in an era of revolutions during the 1789-1848 period, the reaction to the secular powers became synonym to reaction to…
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Society and the fear of “politically incorrect”…
Babies come in all shapes and sizes – or so you might imagine. But according to new international growth charts, a healthy fetus or newborn baby should look broadly the same, regardless of ethnicity or its mother’s size. The charts have been developed to help identify signs of under-nutrition, stunting, wasting or obesity at the…
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Sexism. Politically correctness. Obstacles to science.
The latest neuroscience study of sex differences to hit the popular press has inspired some familiar headlines. The Independent, for example, proclaims that: The hardwired difference between male and female brains could explain why men are “better at map reading” (And why women are “better at remembering a conversation”). The study in question, published in…
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Ban Hitler’s mustache!
A German artist prosecuted for performing Nazi salutes in what he said was an artistic gesture has been acquitted. [1] How shallow can we be, to think that banning a specific way of saluting will be effective in establishing humanism… Maybe we should also ban the mustache of Hitler… Charlie Chaplin would have a great laugh about that!
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The curse of politically correct and why babies are brought by the stork…
> Help translate the Harmonia Philosophica book in 6 new languages and get valuable perks in return! Support the Indiegogo project now! Any household in the UK wanting to access internet pornography will have to opt in to do so under new proposals laid out by prime minister David Cameron today. The move is designed…
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