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Humanists UK news

Victory for humanists: NHS England decides to consult on ending homeopathy spending July 21, 2017

NHS England has announced that it wants to cease funding homeopathic remedies and other treatments proven to have no efficacy, and has launched a consultation on the matter. The announcement is warmly greeted by Humanists UK, which has campaigned for an end to state funding of homeopathy for many years. In announcing the historic change […]

Humanists UK commences review of how it responds to major incidents July 21, 2017

Recent tragedies in London and Manchester have touched everybody and prompted tremendous acts of kindness, compassion, and humanity, both from emergency and public service workers and members of the public, and often through the charity sector. Prompted by recent events, Humanists UK has decided to carry out a review of the support it provides, including […] […]

Noel Conway’s assisted dying hearing concludes in High Court July 20, 2017

Humanists UK member Noel Conway’s claim for an assisted death has been heard by the High Court. The hearing came to an end today, after four days of submissions from his lawyers and from Humanists UK, who intervened in the case in his support. Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson commented, ‘The hearing in Noel’s […]

Humanist parent in High Court challenge to exclusion from local religious education body July 19, 2017

A humanist parent in Wales is to challenge Vale of Glamorgan Council at the High Court in Cardiff over its decision to exclude a humanist representative from the local body responsible for overseeing religious education (RE) in the area. Kathy Riddick, who is also the Coordinator of Wales Humanists, applied to join Vale of Glamorgan’s […]

Humanists UK intervenes in Conway assisted dying case July 18, 2017

Today, Humanists UK made oral submissions in the assisted dying case brought by its member Noel Conway, who is seeking to change to law that currently prevents terminally ill people – those with six months or less to live – from being able to chose a medically assisted death. The case is being heard before […]

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Discussing atheism in highly religious countries May 11, 2017

With the news replete with stories of humanists and freethinkers killed and persecuted for ‘blasphemy’ around the world, Alex Sinclair-Lack asks ‘How candid can I be about my beliefs’? All humanists must grapple with the question of when it is appropriate to tell people that you don’t believe in their god, and when, if ever, […]

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Seven reasons why this year’s Easter egg debacle was ridiculous April 13, 2017

Last week, the Archbishop of York criticised the National Trust and Cadbury for dropping the word ‘Easter’ from the name of their annual egg hunt. This prompted Prime Minister Theresa May to take time out of her visit to the Middle East to state: ‘I think the stance they have taken is absolutely ridiculous.’ Here […]

Rachel Taggart-Ryan

The people who keep us safe March 27, 2017

Heroes are not the stuff of myth: they keep us safe each and every day It’s normal when confronted by horrific events someplace in the world to feel a mixture of emotions. Grief, for the victims whose stories you have read about in the papers. Anger, for the fact that such a tragedy could be […]

Liam Whitton

Highlights from Young Humanists’ ‘ask me anything’ session with the co-founder of Faith to Faithless March 24, 2017

Young Humanists is the section of the BHA specifically for humanists aged 18-35. It runs a regular Twitter debate once a month using the hashtag #YHDebate. March’s debate took the form of an ‘ask me anything’ (AMA) with Imtiaz Shams, a BHA trustee who is also the co-founder of Faith to Faithless, which provides support and […]

Daniel Wardle

The BHA isn’t always thought of for its campaigning on Relationships and Sex Education, but it should be March 21, 2017

As a charity that operates within the field of religion and belief, the BHA’s work on education issues tends to be associated most with its campaigning on ‘faith’ schools and against the various freedoms to discriminate along religious lines that they enjoy. What we are less well-known for, perhaps, is our decades of campaigning around […]

Jay Harman

The Morning Heresy

Unco Junto: The Nature of Hypocrisy

This blog is part of a series I’ve titled “Unco Junto” (after the discussion clubs founded by Benjamin Franklin) in which I offer an introductory topic essay and a handful of commenters are invited to respond in any way they see fit. The goal is to provide a forum for long-form—and hopefully provocative—analysis in a media often dominated by superficial soun […]

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The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Sorry I’m late with this. But check this out! The National Health Service of England announced a ban on homeopathic and herbal medicines, saying, “At best homeopathy is a placebo and a misue of scarce NHS funds which could be better devoted to treatment […]

Cartoon: Obamacare Repeal

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Too Busy Worrying About the Poor

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. John McCain has brain cancer. His opponent for the presidency in 2008, one Barack Obama, tweeted: John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I’ve ever known. Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against. Give it hell, John. Julia Be […]

The T. Rex and the Hare

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Hey look look look look the latest episode of Point of Inquiry is up, in which I have a really fun talk with The Verge‘s space reporter Loren Grush about U.S. space policy in the Trump era, the hostility women still face in the sciences, the feasibility […]

Maybe I Am a Sucker After All

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. California extends its climate change-combating cap-and-trade program to 2030 in a vote that Gov. Jerry Brown called the “most important” vote of these legislators’ lives. No pressure. Don’t worry, Catholics with celiac disease. You don’t have to eat Je […]

Theologically Marooned

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. Kendrick Frazier, editor of CFI’s Skeptical Inquirer, pens an op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal on the Roswell UFO story, and how “established facts of the Roswell incident will of course never catch up with the charming myth.” The 4th Circuit Court of A […]

A Problem to Be Managed

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. There’s a really interesting piece by Michael Hiltzik in the LA Times about how Johnson & Johnson is being sued over an alleged link between their talcum powder and ovarian cancer. The science doesn’t seem to fully support this claim, but J&J ma […]

Ocean Waters and Hubris

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. C is for cookie, except when it’s a Delaware-sized iceberg that’s just wrenched itself from Antarctica. So now C, as in the Larsen C ice shelf, is for climate change. Or catastrophe. Or “crap, we’re all screwed.” Perhaps I’m not being helpful here. Case […]

NutraMeet®

The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities. The smart people at Vox wanted to know more about why people believe in—and think they have even seen—ghosts. Obviously, they’d want to talk to Joe Nickell. So they came to CFI HQ and put Joe in their video report, and it’s great. Bertha Vazquez, who ru […]