Does his “I am a lamp” dance for emphasis.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Pretending that evidence is difficult and complicated
Things get tricky when evidence collides with what people would simply like to crack on and do anyway.
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Coyne on Vernon on “ultra-Darwinism”
There is nothing numinous or celestial about DNA replication.
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Mark Vernon on “ultra-Darwinism”
“Ultra-Darwinism is the kind associated with the new atheism.” Eh?
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Clamp down on those pesky women’s shelters
Women have no business trying to escape violence. Who do they think they are?!
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HRW to Afghan government
Support, rather than control, the work of shelter providers to ensure that women fleeing domestic violence are able to find safe and secure refuge.
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Afghan government’s attack on women’s shelters
In effect, Afghanistan’s few refuges for abused women are about to become prisons.
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Values and the New Atheism
What’s “missing” from the New Atheist world view is the siren call of easy assent to illegitimate authority.
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Journalist has tiny crush on Muslim Brotherhood
Its youth wing, that is. Sure, they want to establish Sharia, but they’re so young and energetic and passionate.
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Egypt: “moderate” Islamist to head panel on constitution
And a former Muslim Brotherhood MP, Sobhy Saleh, will be among the members of the panel.
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Petition to save women’s shelters in Afghanistan
Under a new bill, women and girls would have to appear before a panel which could decide to send them home or charge them with “adultery.”
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Johann Hari: get bishops out of lawmaking
Which two nations still reserve places in their parliaments for unelected religious clerics? Iran…and Britain.
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Religious discrimination in “faith” schools
The new Education Bill would allow a Muslim or Catholic school, for instance, to recruit entirely on religious grounds.
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Ahmadinejad on true, Islamic feminism
It’s not Zionist.
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Free Church minister resigns over music in services
Music is Satan’s fishing rod.
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Religion is no excuse for promoting scientific ignorance
Teachers of science need to understand and convey concepts that are in accord with our understanding of nature.
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When is it ok to “discriminate” against creationists?
By hiring someone else for a science job. James Hannam says never.
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S Dakota shelves you can kill abortionists bill
Several people convicted of killing abortion providers have tried unsuccessfully to use the justifiable homicide argument.
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PZ on atheism and women
Imagine a panel with 5 Christians and 1 atheist. Think about it.
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Dahlia Lithwick on Clarence Thomas
This combination of public silence, private advocacy, and contempt for transparency is the real problem Thomas has created, not the silence itself.