Saturday, May 22, 2010

Anger mounts over Zapiro cartoon

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Read the full story at the Mail & Guardian here .
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

I get mail about atheism and morality

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Every part of the comment has been published, unedited, shown in blue. This is a respond to a note wrote by Richard Harriman, I am not agai...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

Michael Tellinger - Botswana Guardian

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Tonight, if you're reading this on Thursday, we'll have the privilege of a visit from "scientist, explorer and international au...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Morality is a human virtue - Mmegi

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Original here . Like Don-Martin Takudzwa Whande I don't want to get into a letter-writing argument about atheism and religion. That ...
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Don-Martin Takudzwa Whande's response - Mmegi

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Original here . Although I do not usually like to respond to a response to my articles, I felt obliged to respond to Harriman's letter...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Thank you rational atheists - Mmegi

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Original here . I would like to express my thanks to all the people who have approached me or have sent me messages by email or on Faceboo...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Atheists are rational and logical - Mmegi and Monitor

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Original here . In a column in Mmegi on 15th January Don-Martin Takudzwa Whande argued that atheists like me somehow fail to see the overw...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Ginkgo biloba doesn't work - CNN Health News

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CNN Story "Ginkgo biloba has failed -- again -- to live up to its reputation for boosting memory and  brain function . Just over a yea...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Evidence based faith?

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I wonder what this story teaches us? Mmegi, 21st December - " Church Still In Deep Shock After Pastors Drown "
Friday, November 27, 2009

The Voice - Dear Consumer's Voice

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Dear Consumer’s Voice #2   Some months ago I visited a web site that offered me a free astrological reading. I got an email from the site...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Who has rights? (Mmegi Consumer Watchdog column)

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We’ve been getting phone calls at the office. Unfortunately none of them were offering us large quantities of money (hint), free brand new ...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

A UK legal scandal - Trafigura

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Some companies, and their law firms, particularly those like Carter Ruck in the UK,  behave like utter scumbags. Direct quote from Wikilea...
Thursday, October 08, 2009

We get mail - the QXCI/EPFX/SCIO silliness

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Intrigued by the SCIO/QXCI/EPFX machine we mentioned in Mmegi this week, I emailed one of the South African web sites advertising it.  I sa...

Fighting nonsense (Mmegi Consumer Watchdog column)

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It’s been a hard couple of weeks. I’m trying hard to think of a recent example of someone NOT being hugely gullible and naïve. I had a bos...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Fortune tellers are criminals - Botswana Guardian

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There are times when I love the law. Not the boring bits, I mean the bits that actually outlaw something that deserves to be outlawed. I a...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009

“How to read articles about health” – by Dr Alicia White

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From the ever excellent Dr Ben Goldacre's Bad Science site. How to read articles about health and healthcare

Homeopathy and science - Dara O'Brien

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Warning. Not safe for work unless you work for a particularly enlightened company. Lots of rude words but an excellent attack on pseudosci...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Irritating "traditional doctors" - Botswana Guardian

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Yes, they're irritating but I've also been irritating them. I responded to a number of advertisements from some of these so-called...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

Simon Singh - Chiropractic

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Simon Singh is a science writer in London and the co-author, with Edzard Ernst, of Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial. This i...
Monday, July 06, 2009

GenQuest - Multi Level Marketing comes to Botswana again

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A Malaysian called Goh Seng Hong is in Botswana trying to introduce us to GenQuest, a Multi-Level Marketing company. He's doing a prese...