1. Gay scientists isolate Christian gene

Comment #150103 by fergusg on March 26, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Almost as funny are the comments on the hosting site. It seems lots of people (guess which sort) don't understand that it's a spoof.

2. Christopher Hitchens on Books & Ideas

Comment #123329 by fergusg on February 7, 2008 at 1:34 am

Richard Morgan: it's a "bug" in the forums - the character set is wrong. Try changing your browser's Character Encoding to UTF-8.

3. 'Root of All Evil? The Uncut Interviews' Released on DVD

Comment #67900 by fergusg on September 5, 2007 at 5:09 am

Just in case you didn't realise (I almost didn't!) - this DVD doesn't contain the original series, just the extended interviews.

4. The hitch in Hitchens' thinking

Comment #58745 by fergusg on July 26, 2007 at 3:08 am

Unfortunately even sceptics can make up new verbs. Here's Michael Shermer saying "Science is a verb":

http://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/ted_shermer_m_2005.mov

5. Richard Dawkins on Hardtalk

Comment #58505 by fergusg on July 25, 2007 at 4:15 am

I think you're "all" being overly harsh on Stephen Sackur. The programme is just fine. This long running series is called "HARDtalk" for a reason. Not interview. Not debate. Sackur isn't an expert on this topic but a (direct, and very good) journalist. So much better than almost every other Dawkins discussion I've seen.

6. Is Christianity Good for the World?

Comment #39148 by fergusg on May 10, 2007 at 5:04 am

Rtambree, I wish that lives debates were like that. But did you see the recent one (q.v., this site) between Hitchens and (Rev.) Al Sharpton? Sharpton repeatedly tried to probe Hitchens about "God", but the insisted on replying with a Christianity-is-bad argument. Formal give-him-time-to-answer debates rarely satisfy either.

7. Hitchens, Sharpton and Faith

Comment #38895 by fergusg on May 9, 2007 at 12:13 pm

Has anyone written down that "Jewish minx" quote? I fancy having a T-shirt printed with it on.

8. A Brief History of Disbelief

Comment #37571 by fergusg on May 5, 2007 at 2:17 am

No DVDs I'm afraid, according to the show's site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/yoursay/disbelief.shtml

"BBC Four: There are currently no plans to release a video/DVD of the series"

9. A Brief History of Disbelief

Comment #35816 by fergusg on April 29, 2007 at 12:58 am

It's mildly amusing that the programmes' titles are "Atheism: A ROUGH History of Disbelief" but they are almost universally referenced as "Brief", even on it's own BBC website page.