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Feminism
Global Quickies: Discrimination in Soccer, Doctor Performs Exorcism, and Gay Rights
UK “A Christian GP took a mentally ill patient to his church to perform an exorcism, and told her she would be cursed if she reported him, a medical tribunal has heard.” INDIA In 2009, India decriminalized homosexuality, now once again, they are making gay sex a crime punishable by up to ten years in jail and putting tens…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Free Speech, Witchdoctors, and Nepalese Women Conquering Summits
SAUDI ARABIA The second round of lashes for Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger convicted of blasphemy, has been postponed on medical grounds. Also, authorities publicly beheaded a woman in the holy city of Mecca. TURKEY Court orders ban on accessing online news portals which feature Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the prophet Muhammad. Also on Wednesday, Turkish police stopped and searched…
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Feminism
Global Quickies: Charlie Hebdo, Fighting Violence With Science, and Bans on Driving and Petting Puppies
ARAB WORLD (from Mary) Arab newspapers around the world react to Charlie Hebdo attack. INDIA “Indian police are investigating a local Muslim politician for inciting hatred after he was quoted apparently praising the massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine.” RUSSIA “While Russia’s Council of Muftis, the country’s main Muslim leadership organization, said in a statement Wednesday that terrorism is indefensible, it…
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Global Quickies: Hunting Spiders, Anti-racism Campaigns, and Crop Circles by Drunk Chupacabras
MEXICO “Thousands of people have flocked to a Mexican city where crop circles spanning seven-hectares appeared on Christmas Eve.” Because of their terrible-made design, they have been called “crap circles”, the work of drunk aliens, and the work of the Chupacabras. INDIA “Police in India arrested three people for allegedly gang-raping a 22-year-old Japanese research academic near a Buddhist pilgrimage…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Lost Fairytales, Heroe Doctor, and Egypt Doesn’t Like the Exodus Movie
EUROPE / DR CONGO “A doctor from the Democratic Republic of Congo has won Europe’s top human rights prize for helping thousands of gang rape victims in the country.” AUSTRALIA “The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has convinced a court that a company that offers homeopathic remedies was “misleading and deceptive” when it tried to argue that said remedies provide…
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Skepticism
Global Quickies: Troll Hunters, Rusty Radiators, and Fighting Rape Riding a Tiger
IRELAND “In Ireland, a woman who is clinically dead but 17 weeks pregnant is being kept alive against her family’s will. At this painful time, her relatives must go to court to stop the Irish state treating their loved one’s body as a cadaveric incubator.” WORLD (from Mary) The International Centre for Theoretical Physics: “Set up in 1964 by Pakistani…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Bad PSAs, Sham Healer Jailed, and a School for Husbands
PAKISTAN “The actor Veena Malik has expressed anger at a 26-year jail term handed down by a Pakistani court after she acted in a scene loosely based on the marriage of the prophet Muhammad’s daughter. The same sentence was extended to her husband, and to Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of the Jang-Geo media group which broadcast the TV show.” EGYPT “The…
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Anti-Science
Global Quickies: Bad Judgement, Catholic Antivaxxers, and a Dictator’s Quest for Longevity
NIGERIA Dr Adadevoh is being widely praised for helping prevent a more devastating Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, now declared free of the virus. She diagnosed and kept in the hospital a Liberian ebola patient who constantly wanted to flee to seek help from a so-called miracle Pentacostal pastor. Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevohand 11 other hospital workers were infected. UNITED ARAB…
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