This Week In Free Thought 1/31-2/6
by Jason on Feb.05, 2010, under Blog
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Politics

Google to Enlist NSA to ward of Cyber-Attacks
Congressional Hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded flight 253 Bomber
White House Prepares for Possibility of Two Supreme Court Vacancies
Thomas Defends Campaign Finance Ruling
US Missile Test Mimicking Iran Strike Fails
US Tries whether Blackwater Bribed Baghdad
Why do People Vote Against Their Own Interests
Pakistan’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Rejected over name
China/Iran Spur US to Develop Air/Sea Battle Plan
Former Mexican Official Urges US Marijuana Legalization
Senators Warned of al-Qaeda Terrorist attack by July
Iran Opposition Leaders Call For Protests
Muslim Cleric Shot 21 Times in Federal Raid
Separation of Church & State

Officials Deadlocked over approval of CA Hebrew-Charter School
Anti-Evolution Bill In Mississippi Dies
Religious Leaders Worried that Obama’s Faith Council is Just For show
9-Charged in Iran for ‘Waging War Against God’
AU Joins Coalition of Orgs asking Obama to Reform Faith-Based Initiatives
Nothing Fails the Constitution like a National-Prayer Breakfast (FFRF)
Christians Desecrate Wiccan Religious Site at Air Force Academy
Why is Obama Attending the Family’s Prayer Breakfast?
Obama Calls for civility at Prayer Breakfast
KY House Ok’s National Motto License Plate
Furor over Atheist Display at Springfield Capitol Continues
AU Speaks out against Intolerant Agenda of Prayer-Breakfast
Faith, Hope and Charity: Why President Obama’s Faith-Based Agenda Must Change
Haiti

Voodoo High Priest claims Aid Monopolized by Christians
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Defense Officials Say Lift Military Ban on Gays
Senator Kerry Stunned by Gates, Mullen Attack
Admiral Mullen: “Allowing Gays and Lesbians to Serve openly would be the right thing to do.”
DADT the beginning of the end?
Gates: Don’t Rush to lift ban on gays in the military
Free Speech

Dutch to try case of anti-islamic far-right MP
Superbowl Commercial Controversy

OpEd: Woman Lauds Tebow’s Courage
The Grisly Truth About Super Bowl Abortion Ad
Tim Tebow Superbowl Ad may be based on Falsehood
CBS Rejects ‘Dante’s Inferno’ Videogame Ad
A moment of pernicious piety

Montreal Pastor Faces more jail time in sexual assault of “ten-year-old bride”
KS Youth Pastor Charged with Sex Crime
Wisconsin Pastor Charged with Embezzling $200k
Motivational Speaker Charged in Sweat-Lodge Death
Sweat Lodge Guru Pleads not-guilty to man-slaughter
Motivational Speaker Charged in Sweat-lodge Deaths
Science!

Quantum Mechanics @ Work in Photosynthesis
Spherical Cows dump Metabolism Law
Jeff Schweitzer: The Failure of the God Gene
Brain Scan Allows Unconscious Patient to Communicate
Link Between Excessive Internet Use and Depression
Open-Source Science to take on neglected disease
Hundreds of Quakes Rattling Yellowstone
6.0 Quake Hits Northern California
80-year old Primordial Soup theory rejected
US doing “scientific research” to boost interrogations
Jupiter’s Moons: Explanation for differences between Callisto and Ganymede
Homeopaths admit expensive concoctions just water
Scientists Crack 20-year-old HIV drugs puzzle
UN Climate Change Panel based claim on student dissertation and magazine article
Digital Doomsday: The End of Knowledge
Lancet accepts ‘MMR’ Study False
Cat Predicts 50 Deaths in RI Nursing home
Why does time fly as you get older?
Can You Write Your Way to Good Health?
Pig’s lungs in human transplants become one step closer
Water Movements Can Shape Fish-Evolution
Scientists Kill Cancer with “nano-bubbles”
Potential evolutionary role for same-sex attraction

One in Eight Americans needs Emergency Food Assistance
Georgia Law will Safeguard Children from Abusive Military Recruitment
Comedian John Stewart Bashes Fox on O’Reilly
Study Finds Afghan-men struggle with sexual identity
Fox is America’s Favorite Source for ‘News’
‘Abstinence-Only’ Ed Gets boost
Abstinence Program gains clout
Mexican Drug Cartels Go Into the Rehab Business
Oh-My-God, Australian Atheist Convention Sells Out
Ancient Tribe goes extinct as last member dies