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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Russell Blackford on the virtues of moral scepticism
We can get by with more modest aims, such as each doing what we can, consistent with our other projects, to reduce the world’s burden of suffering.
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Mubarak gives it up
Protesters began hugging and cheering, shouting “Egypt is free!” and “You’re an Egyptian, lift your head”
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Blackford on Beattie on Pigliucci on Harris
We like our meta to be meta around here.
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3 doctors investigated in Bangladesh whipping death
Justice Chowdhury ordered the religious affairs ministry to end funding for madrasas and mosques that issue fatwas. Yessssssss.
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Vatican says no you can’t confess to your phone
It has to be a priest. Phones can’t talk to god, stupid!
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A visit to the science wooseum
The homeopathy stand tells the case study of a girl who had allergies from the age of 3-5 and they say that she was cured by homeopaths.
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Homeopathy and other quackery at the Science Museum
The museum has devoted a ‘small area’ of the gallery to ‘Personal Stories’ without clarifying that these do not lend alternative medicines any credibility.
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“My mother and I became Faith and Blasphemy”
She stood in the doorway: “If you go to the demonstrations and get killed, I won’t come for your body.”
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Ireland and the church
As the economy has crashed, the Irish have come face to face with a church-state relationship that was and is perversely antimodern.
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One Law for All holds “Enemies not Allies” seminar
Far-right groups and Islamist groups deserve each other.
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Mubarak may step down
Hassan al-Roweni, an Egyptian army commander, told protesters in the square that “everything you want will be realised”.
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Never mind Scientology, what about Catholicism?
Is one any less ridiculous than the other?
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So how about that Scientology piece?
Is it the beginning of the end or just same old same old?
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Lawrence Wright on Scientology
Recruits had a sense of boundless possibility. Mystical powers were forecast; out-of-body experiences were to be expected; fundamental secrets were to be revealed -
Salvation? There’s an app for that
It lets you pick a commandment and tick off all your sins, keeping a running tally to bring into the confessional with you.
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Jesus gives birth control advice
Why bother when God can just impregnate at will?
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Can we have a godless US president? Ever?
Obama seems to claim a direct channel to the Almighty and to see himself as God’s representative on earth.
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Dan Fincke on the A word
It is in the theist’s interest to convince people that atheism necessarily involves much more certitude than it does.
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Aikin and Talisse on accommodationism and atheism
Religious believers have an inflated sense of the strength of the evidence in support of their view.