Author : Michael Nugent

Adam, thank you for your second response to my posts about the inaccuracies and misrepresentations in your Guardian article about Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the atheist movement. In my opinion, your response seems to implicitly accept that your Guardian article included some inaccuracies and misrepresentations, though I acknowledge that you reject this analysis and that you stand […]

Adam Lee has responded to my criticism of his article in the Guardian about Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the atheist movement. Adam had asked critics to provide detail of inaccuracies and misrepresentations in the Guardian article, and I did so. In his response, Adam failed to address nine of the issues that I raised about […]

Adam Lee has now responded to my criticism of his article in the Guardian about Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the atheist movement. Adam had asked critics to provide detail of inaccuracies and misrepresentations in the article, and I did so. In his response, Adam failed to address nine of the issues that I raised […]

Adam Lee has written the latest misleading Guardian article about Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the atheist movement. It is titled: “Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name.” Jerry Coyne has reviewed the article on Why Evolution is True, and has analysed how it fits in with ongoing personalised attacks […]

You may have heard the legend that Lyndon B Johnson spread a rumour that an election rival fucked pigs. When challenged that he knew it wasn’t true, LBJ supposedly replied, ‘Of course it’s not true, but I want to make him deny it.’ Today Ophelia Benson tweeted to me: ‘I really wish you would address […]

Thank you, Ophelia, for your response to my post about recent media misrepresentations of the atheist movement, and the role of PZ Myers in the culture of demonising people. I am going to respond to all of your points over several posts, because I want to do justice to each point. I am pleased that […]

I think it is useful to continue this discussion, so this is a response to Ophelia’s interim post about mine yesterday, which she has titled: “Thou shalt respect The Leaders.” That title is based on a misreading not only of my post, but also of my entire life philosophy and political activism. Actually: I wrote […]

Let me preface this post by saying that I accept that I might be mistaken in anything that I write, and that I am open to changing my mind on the basis of reasonable civil discussion. Also, I assume that I have done variations of at least some of the things I am complaining about […]

My late wife Anne Holliday was buried last week, three years after she died and donated her body to medical science. After the burial, I discussed with Joe Duffy on RTE the new secular memorial stone that the Dublin Medical Schools have erected on their cemetery plot, and Anne’s plans for assisted dying. Thanks to […]

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland and the Apprentice Boys of Derry will soon take part in a march in Edinburgh to oppose Scottish independence. The march is organised by the Scottish Orange Order. At face value it is what you would expect from a pro-British, pro-Union organisation. But in a significant way, this march […]