Science

Many studies show that abortion rates recede if decision makers are provided enough information and a wider range of contraceptive choices.

What went down at the "Faces of the RH Bill" forum at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health last Jan. 18, 2011.

I just visited the Filipino Freethinkers site and I was pleased to read comments on my “Darwin’s Missing Link” article. However,...

Since my political commentaries aren’t always publishable here at the Filipino Freethinkers site, I decided to just focus on themes that...

The Latin Fallacies are being called out so frequently in arguments, you'd think they were Spells like in Harry Potter.

The claim that life begins at fertilization is not only provably false, it cheapens the breathtaking reality of nature.

...should I be open about my secular humanism to my students when I know well that my opinions will bear the seal of a teacher’s authority? After all, am I not a math and science teacher, not a social science teacher? Can’t I just be silent about my opinions, wear the robe of neutrality on sensitive issues and get on with science education? After all, a good science education is an avenue to progressive thinking, is it not? Perhaps there’s no need to use my influence as teacher to “preach” secular humanist values. Perhaps I can just teach science well and let the brightest among the kids find their own way to secular humanism.

What conservative Catholics continue to call as "immoral" is the simple admission that human suffering is wrong and that we should do everything in our power to prevent it.

If there was any branch of science that could have ever vindicated the doctrine of vitalism (the belief that something nonphysical is the force behind the phenomenon of life), it would have been molecular biology and its study of the genetic and chemical underpinnings of life.