Secularism is a Women’s IssueTrust in science, it seems, is quite likely to be a subset of a much broader question of trust in society. Trust, or, rather, the lack of it, clearly shapes much of our political landscape. But it can also have a direct impact on physical wellbeing.From America to the Congo, distrust without reason can be matter of life and death.
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Trust in science - Health implications
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USA: Prominent atheists defend their right to free expression
22 April 2017, by siawi3Outspoken atheists on faith and belief.
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Scientists and Buddhists Discuss Physics, Reality at Three-Day Conference
5 November 2018, by siawi3Classical physics had allowed scientists for a long time to distinguish between what knowledge and reality were, as distinct entities in the study of the natural world. However, the dawn of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century no longer afforded this luxury. Knowledge and reality became intertwined, as delineated by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and, more famously, the Schrödinger’s cat thought-experiment. Scientific and religious traditions are ultimately irreconcilable for the way they seek out and establish truths.
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India: National Education Policy: RSS Outfit Proposes Inclusion of Vedic Maths in Curriculum
15 August 2019, by siawi3In the past few years, several leaders have claimed that ancient Indian texts have been unfairly discarded in favour of modern scholarly texts. Concerns have also been raised that the government’s drive to discuss and research “the Indian knowledge system” has fuelled a rise of pseudoscience and pseudoscientific claims in the country.
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Misère du culturalisme
19 October 2010, by siawi2http://www.lemonde.fr/imprimer/article/2010/09/29/1417649.html
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Il y a quelques années, des médecins français découvrirent l’existence de nombreux cas de saturnisme infantile parmi des enfants parisiens. Cette intoxication, qui peut avoir (...) -
Les Juifs sont-ils un outil de défense de la démocratie tunisienne ?
30 juillet 2017, par siawi3« Pour fabriquer un avenir libre, un pays doit réintégrer son passé dans l’enseignement prodigué aux générations présentes et celles à venir. Or, l’histoire et la présence des Juifs en Tunisie sont ignorées par les jeunes là-bas. »
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India: How Hindutva Historiography is Rooted in the Colonial View of Indian History
20 February 2016, by siawi3The idea of the greatness of the Aryans led to an uncritical admiration of the entire “Hindu” period, which was seen as a phase of affluence, social harmony and happiness. In the post-independence period serious historians have eschewed the notion of a golden age in the past but Hindutva scholars have continued to hold on to this obsolete and effete idea.
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Pakistan: The Ummah At War With Itself
28 July 2017, by siawi3If Muslim states have paid no attention to the ummah, non-state actors have paid even less. They have slaughtered tens of thousands of co-religionists. The ummah is at war with itself. What other way is there to describe the brutal bloodletting by Muslims of Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Turkey, and, of course, Pakistan.
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Turquie : La théorie de Darwin n’est plus la bienvenue au lycée
30 juillet 2017, par siawi3La théorie de l’évolution des espèces, jugée contraire au Coran, ne sera plus enseignée au collège et au lycée en Turquie. Pendant longtemps, le pays a été protégé par sa Constitution laïque. Depuis, la donne a changé avec l’arrivée au pouvoir de ministres créationnistes. Trop de musulmans sont prisonniers du « concordisme » : toutes les connaissances scientifiques seraient déjà contenues en germe dans le Coran, ce qui abolit d’office l’esprit critique et la nécessité de la recherche scientifique.
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France : La nuit de la Saint-Sylvestre à Cologne et l’affaire Daoud
8 mars 2016, par siawi3Quand des chercheurs français renvoient dos à dos islamistes et laïques d’origine musulmane, tous traités comme des subalternes dépourvus de pensée, et voués aux affects.
