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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Bush admin “conscience” rules revised
2008 rule granted sweeping protections to health care providers who opposed abortion, sterilization and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds.
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Can we talk about Muslim homophobia now?
Yes, it is “Muslim culture” today to be bigoted against gay people. It was British culture to be anti-gay thirty years ago. Cultures change.
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Priests rape nuns in order to avoid Aids
Forced to acknowledge the problem, the Vatican has tried to play down its gravity.
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A miscarriage could be a felony
A Georgia legislator has introduced a bill that would make miscarriages and abortions potentially punishable by death.
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Atheists are so stooooopid
“According to Scripture, the evidence for God is overwhelming.”
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Jonathan Derbyshire on philosophy for the public
A growing number of professional philosophers are realising that rigour and accessibility need not be mutually exclusive.
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Kadyrov looking for 2d wife, can’t find pretty one
Chechen leader has described women as the property of their husbands and says their main role is to bear children.
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Lysenko’s tomb: Darwin, Dawkins and the left
Misunderstanding the selfish gene, decade after decade.
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Jesus and Mo and Moses don’t want to be specks
Therefore god.
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Hitchens on Obama on Arab uprisings
The Obama administration contrived to come up with an argument that maximized every form of feebleness.
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High school atheists organize, schools resist
Atheists are the most distrusted and disliked of all minority groups in the US – more than blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, immigrants, and gays and lesbians.
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Abortion is not an option in Chile
The Catholic church has a stranglehold on Chile.
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ICC charges initiated against Ratzinger
Two German lawyers have initiated charges against the pope at the International Criminal Court, alleging crimes against humanity.
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Man convicted in “honor killing” of his daughter
He ran over her with his car because she refused an arranged marriage.
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British teenager escapes forced marriage
But many others don’t escape.
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Isn’t atheist morality a leap of faith?
No. Secular morality is an improvement on religious morality – one might even call it intelligently designed.
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Ryan Doyle on Tarek Fatah
People can disagree on almost everything and still be friends.
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Mona Eltahawy on the Muslim Brotherhood
Through a network of clerics, the Mubarak regime used conservative interpretations of Islam to fight the Muslim Brotherhood.