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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Tunisian women fear Islamist return
Dorra Bouzid, a well-known journalist and feminist, said women had to be prepared to fight to keep the rights they had won.
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Kylie Sturgess interviews Desiree Schell
Skeptically Speaking is a show for people who are curious about the world, whether they consider themselves skeptics or not.
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Iran hangs two for taking pictures
Iranian prosecutors said Kazemi and Hajaghaei had taken photos and footage of the protests and distributed them on the internet.
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Iran hangs 2 activists for election protests
Iran has sentenced around a dozen activists to death for their role in the post-poll unrest.
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Montaigne and empathy and mirror neurons
For Montaigne, as for contemporary neuroscientists, humans have an inbuilt imitative, sympathetic capacity.
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A doctor who believes in choice in dying
She rejects the argument that assisted dying undermines trust in the medical profession. “It is the other way round – not being able to assist undermines trust.”
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Astrologers demand fair and balanced coverage
The pursuit of meaningful predictions in astrology isn’t so much flogging a dead horse as punching a piece of rock and wondering why it won’t say anything.
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“New” atheists overlook the comforts of animism
Religion’s chief virtue is as a “coping mechanism” for our troubles.
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Jesus and Mo channel BioLogos
New atheists are so patronizing. Their tiny minds just can’t grasp our profundities.
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Jesus and Mo on Warsi
Mo should go into politics.
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“Human rights” used against human rights
It’s remarkable that Human Rights Commissions could so easily be hijacked in support of suppressing criticism of extreme ideologies.
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Religion clashes with human rights
Religitigants seem to want a trump card that puts them above the subtle considerations of fairness.
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Andrew Anthony on Warsi and “Islamophobia”
She wants to give greater voice to religion in the political arena, yet she also wishes there to be less criticism of religion, in other words, power without scrutiny.
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Charles Moore on Warsi on “Islamophobia”
This is an argument between those who think that only violence need concern us, and those who believe it is from bad ideas that bad actions spring.
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Pope says Berlusconi should be moral
Who is less moral, Berlusconi or Ratzinger?
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Giles Fraser worries about “Islamophobia”
Offers two random comments at Dawkins’s website as “evidence.” Yes really.
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Soumaya Ghannoushi has such a good idea!
She thinks an alliance of independent socialists, Islamists and liberals would be just the thing for Tunisia.
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The Council of Ex-Muslims needs your support
CEMB is a hugely important sanctuary for women and men who face threats, intimidation and/or isolation for leaving Islam.
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Why Tunisia’s revolution is not Islamist
Observers hoping Ben Ali’s fall will portend a similar fate for other Arab autocrats may be left waiting a lot longer than they think.