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Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Lebanon: clerics reject domestic abuse law
Highest Sunni Muslim authority rejected bill aimed at protecting women from violence and rape, saying it would lead to the demise of the family.
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Aikin and Talisse on various kinds of straw men
When we commit a straw man fallacy, we fail to live up to the responsibilities of the exchange of reasons.
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Devon “witch” receives Christian leaflets
“God bless them, they’re wanting to save her from going to a lost eternity.”
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Catholics who disagree with church teaching shock
“When professors deny the truths of faith and disregard the common good they violate the mission of a Catholic university.”
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Matt Taibbi on Michele Bachmann
Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions.
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Farzana Hassan on burqas and bans
The women’s rights activist explores whether the burqa is a symbol of religious expression or a tool of oppression.
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Nick Cohen on “fashionable atheism”
Trevor Phillips’s attack on “fashionable” atheists for exercising their right to speak their minds shows he does not understand modern sectarianism.
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Tel Aviv buses mandated to “go religious”
New transportation “reform” means buses will no longer be allowed to operate before the Shabbat ends.
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Eric MacDonald on the wolf in sheep’s clothing
They may not eat you up like wolves, but they will, like taxidermists, certainly stuff you with unfounded beliefs and display you.
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Lawbreaking schools failing to teach religion
It’s the law, dammit. They’re breaking the law. The law says they have to. They’re breaking it.
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Misleading money-saving claims help no one
Ben Goldacre shows why.
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US: women prosecuted for having miscarriages
Yes really.
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Cuomo signs marriage equality bill into law
Wall Street donors and gay-rights advocates demonstrated more muscle than a Roman Catholic hierarchy and an ineffective opposition.
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A show called “Leave it to Jesus”
Jesus is like any kid next door…but he’s different. The ABC sitcom that got wiped.
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Padraig Ready on Ireland’s ludicrous blasphemy law
Catholic bullies are pitching a fit about a Mary-tease at University College, Cork.
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Parents to be sentenced in faith-healing case
The Wylands followed their church’s method of treatment: prayer, anointing with oil and the laying on of hands. It failed.
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How to change a state school to a “faith” school
First change it to an academy, then get easy permission to convert the non-sectarian academy to a “faith” academy.
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Salil Tripathi reviews Arundhati Roy
Her critique is almost comic-book like, with sharply edged “good” and “evil” forces.
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Last 3 abortion clinics in Kansas may close
Onerous new “facility standards” the clinics have to meet within 90 days may force them to close.