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Today in the Freethinker, Colin Brewer takes Baroness Finlay @IloraFinlay, Dr Joel Zivot, and @danny__kruger MP (among others) to task over their killing of the UK's recent attempt to legislate for assisted dying.

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[Dr Patrick S. McGhee @Patricksmcg]

Last year, during a trip to France, I wrote about his principled scholarship and invaluable legacy via @FreethinkerMag | https://t.co/m6Mf9eUBPC

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

50 Years of The Selfish Gene. In my experience, its main message has not sunk in half a century later, even among scientists: one often reads an ingenuous "adaptive explanation" of this or that trait (music, rituals, religion) as "bonding the group," without any awareness that this is not what the theory of natural selection is about or that it is in any way problematic. Dawkins began The Selfish Gene by awakening readers to this fallacy, but it's as if he never wrote it. https://t.co/tobvjYktJ4 via @freethinkermag

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REMINDER: Sign up for our next Freethought History Webinar #11: A New Vision of Thomas Paine. With Gary Berton and Scott Cleary. Happening a week from today!

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Today in the Freethinker, Megan Manson @NatSecSoc discusses Reform UK and their attempts to impose Christian prayers on local councils.

‘Those who try to use Christian identity politics to gain votes should note the public at large are not keen.’

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[Jamie C. Weir @Jamie_C_Weir]

'The Selfish Gene is the culmination of a long scientific revolution that began with Darwin’s own book, On the Origin of Species, more than a century earlier' 📚

My reflections on the 50th anniversary of @RichardDawkins's classic, in @FreethinkerMag ✍️🧬

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Today in the Freethinker, @Jamie_C_Weir reflects on 50 years of @RichardDawkins's classic account of evolution, The Selfish Gene. 'Half a century on...[it] remains an essential explanation of the evolution of life.'

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Today in the Freethinker, @Jamie_C_Weir reflects on 50 years of Richard Dawkins's classic account of evolution, The Selfish Gene. 'Half a century on...[it] remains an essential explanation of the evolution of life.'

https://t.co/AEWfM47eTv

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A preview of the Richard Carlile chapter from the forthcoming book LOOSE CANNONS, an illustrated history of vivid freethinking humanist rebels, created by Paul Fitzgerald and @maddyogoodall.

Plus crowdfunder for the book - contribute if you can!

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A preview of the Richard Carlile chapter from the forthcoming book LOOSE CANNONS, an illustrated history of vivid freethinking humanist rebels, created by Paul Fitzgerald and Madeleine Goodall.

Plus crowdfunder for the book - contribute if you can!

https://t.co/SIxxgdhYpm

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Today in the Freethinker, Akash Srinivas interviews Iranian American writer and dissident Sahar Delijani.

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Tolga Theo Yalur calls for a post-Islamic world. This doesn't mean the 'abandonment of personal faith. Instead, it refers to the systematic removal of religious dogma from the machinery of state governance and the analytical laboratory of the mind.'

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Last year, the 'intelligent design' crowd made perhaps their biggest blunder yet, and in the process showed themselves both ignorant and contemptuous of their fellow religionists, says Samuel McKee @MolecularSamm.

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[Kunwar Khuldune Shahid @khuldune]

The Iran War, Shia militancy, and the next wave of global jihad

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The next wave of global jihad will be Shia/Iran-aligned, argues Kunwar Khuldune Shahid @khuldune.

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Today in the Freethinker, Sukhwant Daliwal reflects on the recent English local election results and asks why so many Asians stood for/supported Reform UK.

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Today in the Freethinker, Bob Forder reviews 'a serious and polished attempt to tell the story of freethought in the USA' - the American Freethought film series from the @center4inquiry.

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Another Freethought History Webinar to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the US founding. Matthew Stewart will discuss its radical, atheistic origins - a history which has been elided for far too long and which is especially important to remember now.

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On the rise of the British radical right, by @ZwanMahmod.

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[Zwan @ZwanMahmod]

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I wrote about the British radical right in @FreethinkerMag.