Resalah (Epistle): Concise Commandments of Islam according to the verdicts of Ayatollah Ozma Sayyed Mohammad Reda Musavi Golpaygani: “A man cannot marry a girl who has been wet-nursed by his sister or his brother’s wife with his brother’s milk” (Issue 555). “If the wife of a man’s father wet-nurses a girl with his father’s milk, then the man cannot marry that girl” (Issue 553). Er, father’s milk? What can that mean? Many religions have a tendency towards ridiculous control-freakery, but Islam is in a class of its own.

My American friends are soon celebrating their Thanksgiving holiday. As Americans express their gratitude, please consider including science -- the one endeavour that has given humanity better, longer, and healthier lives. #ScienceSaves My foundation along with the Stiefel Freethought Foundation are asking Americans to contact their state governors to establish a National Science Appreciation Day on March 26, 2022.

Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay (‘Cynical Theories’) have done us a service. They sacrificed themselves to read, on behalf of the rest of us, the stupefyingly boring, pretentious & deliberately unclear literature of postmodern metabullshit. Now we can get on with real science. Peter Medawar rumbled postmodernist metabullshit even before it got into its over-rated stride. He wrote the following in 1968 (reprinted in Pluto’s Republic).