Category: Rationalist Society of Pakistan
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A Rebuttal Against Conspiracy Theories on COVID and Dr. Fauci
Dr. Akif Khan (This is a point to point rebuttal of Dr. Faraz Siddiqui’s video (in Urdu language) titled FAUCI: Science, Power and Dollars on his Youtube channel called Billionneurons Faraz Siddiqui) I am not an authority on the technical questions of virology, and specialists in that field can answer them better than I can.…
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سائنس کیسے کام کرتی ہے اور ہمارے سوشل میڈیا دانشور
Science Experiment Vectors by Vecteezy تحریر: ڈاکٹر عاکف خان مختصراً سائنس ایسے کام کرتی ہے کہ جب آپ کوئی مشاہدہ کرتے ہیں اور اپنے سابقہ علم کی بنیاد پر کوئی مفروضہ بناتے ہیں تو سائنسی طریقہ کار کے مطابق آپ یہ نہیں کرتے کہ اس مفروضے کے حق میں ثبوت اور شواہد اکٹھے کرنا…
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گرم ٹھنڈی تاثیر، مچھلی اور یرقان (جانڈس)
پروٹین کو میٹابولائز کرنے کے لیے جسم کو زیادہ کام کرنا پڑتا ہے۔ اس لیے گرمی لگتی ہے اور پھر پروٹین کے میٹابولزم سے مزید حرارت پیدا ہوتی ہے اس کے بعد امائینو ایسڈز جو کہ پروٹین کے بریک ڈاون یا میٹابولزم سے بنتے ہیں وہ نئے پروٹین بناتے ہیں یہ عمل بھی ایگزوتھرمک یعنی…
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Why Homeopathy is a Fraud?
I am writing this blurb because being a Chemistry PhD and my position on homeopathy, I am often asked why I consider homeopathy a fraud (my detailed intro is at the end of this article). In this blurb, I will dwell into the details of homeopathy and principles of chemistry with references on the research and…
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Moon sighting: Discussing scientific perspective with astronomer and scientist Salman Hameed of Hampshire College, Massachusetts
Akif Khan and Salman Hameed discuss the topic of moon sighting, the method through which the start of months of the Islamic calendar are identified. Khan jokes that it could also be called “moon fighting”, as announcements about the sighting of the moon (or not) can make the beginning of holidays rather chaotic. They start by…
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ملالہ کا ڈرامہ – سازشی نظریے
پوری دنیا کے ٹی وی، اخبارات اور نیوز چینلز پر چلنے والے آج کل ایک رجحان کی ہی بات کرتے ہیں جس میں ہماری قوم گھری ہوئی ہے۔ ڈرامے کا مرکزی کردار ٹین ایجر ملالہ یوسفزئی نے انجام دیا، ڈرامے میں نام نہاد طالبان عورتوں کے حقوق اور تعلیم کے لیے آواز اٹھانے پر ملالہ…
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The Battles of (Ir)Rationality
Last week I shared an article of Greenwald, which was in reply to Sam Harris and Dawkins “irrational Islamophobia” and alongwith it the emails exchange between Sam Harris and Greenwald on RSOP, when he retweeted Murtaza Hussain’s (A toronto based columnist) article on Sam Harris and Dawkins attitude. This is Dawkins infamous quote which spurred…
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Getting high on Muslim Conversions in West
Today in RSOP, a guy, religiously very passionate posted some text (his own thoughts or maybe some copy paste stuff) that there is a 25% rise in the Muslim conversions in France last year. Well to many of my friends and readers of this blog, it will be exciting enough, really cool and a big…
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Thy Love is Hypocrite – Editorial
Originally published in The Rationalist, Vol 1, Issue II, Oct-Dec, 2012 After the success of our inaugural issue of “The Rationalist Pakistan”, the first online magazine of Pakistan that seeks promotion of “rationality and humanism“ based socio-political discourse , here we are with the second issue of our e-mag. With over 1500 online subscribers of…
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Movie Review – The Devil Inside
Since the advent of 21st century, the world has moved away from superstitions and heading more towards rationality. However, still there are conscious efforts being made to divert people from rationalist behavior. This movie, “The devil inside”, is a similar futile attempt in this regard. Released by paramount pictures this january, the story revolves around…