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Zurairi AR describes himself as a humanist & sceptic who does good for goodness's sake. He runs Unscientific Malaysia which promotes science & freethought @ http://unmsia.com.

There is no easy cure for cancer

March 15, 2013

MARCH 15 — A friend’s mother was diagnosed with Stage III cancer recently, and together with the commiserations came introductions to “Islamic treatments” and various types of … Read More

Religious institutions, beware the scourge of the Internet

February 19, 2013

FEB 19 — The Malaysian Insider had to take down a story a week and a half ago on Malaysian religious authorities spreading hatred against Valentine’s Day celebrations — after a … Read More

The virtue of ‘I don’t know’

July 28, 2012

JULY 28 ― “Why is the sky blue?”“Where do people go when they die?”“Where do I come from?”Kids are born as natural scientists. They love to ask these sorts of questions ― … Read More

Moving away from comfortable answers

July 20, 2012

JULY 20 — I had the bad fortune of getting a fever right on the first night of my honeymoon. For a moment, I thought how people can imagine this might be a supernatural … Read More

In defence of pseudo-intellectualism

July 06, 2012

JULY 6 — By the time you read this, I’ll be away from the city enjoying my honeymoon, probably reading Greg Epstein’s Good Without God and pondering on a Nietzschean thought or … Read More

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