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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Hitchens on Glenn Beck and tea partiers
Beck’s “9/12 Project” is canalizing old racist and clerical toxic-waste material that a healthy society had mostly flushed out of its system.
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Stockholm: email threats, then explosions
The writer of the e-mail mentions the presence of Swedish troops in Afghanistan and Lars Vilks.
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AAA rejecting science?
“Interpretation” opened not just one but dozens of exits from scientific rigor and was the beginning of the postmodern moment in anthropology.
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Did Joe pull a fast one on Jesus and Mo?
Oh surely not. He’ll be back tomorrow, or the next day…
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Ashtiani forced to incriminate herself on tv
“To organise a televised ‘confession’ midway through a judicial review of a serious case makes a mockery of Iran’s legal system.”
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Vatican was “offended” by Irish requests for info
Vatican dug in its heels, then had the gall to claim it “shared the outrage.”
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American Anthropological Association: no science for us
The AAA decided at its recent annual meeting to strip the word “science” from a statement of its long-range plan.
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Discussing science and morality
Simon Blackburn, Sam Harris, Steven Pinker, Patricia Churchland, Peter Singer, Laurence Krauss.
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US: most scientists are Democrats
Well no kidding. Sarah Palin anyone? John Shimkus? James Inhofe?
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Lehrer on Lehrer on the decline effect
In poll after poll, Americans have dismissed two of the most robust theories of modern science: evolution by natural selection and climate change.
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Coyne on Lehrer on the “decline effect”
It’s a mistake to imply that all scientific truth is simply a choice among explanations that aren’t very well supported.
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BBC on Ashtiani “confession”
And the difficulty of getting at the truth about what is happening to her and her son and her lawyer.
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Press TV boasts of Ashtiani show
Read and feel sick.
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Guardian reports Ashtiani is free
Ecstatic campaigners hailed the news. “This is the happiest day in my life,” said Mina Ahadi of the International Committee against Stoning.
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Ashtiani and her lawyer are free
We have got news from Iran that they are free,” Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the Anti-Stoning Committee, told AFP.
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Zimmer posts full responses to arsenic article
What 13 scientists told him.
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Martin Robbins on NASA’s arsenic debacle
It’s a story of everything that’s wrong about the relationship between science, peer review, publishing, and the media.
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Aasia Bibi’s family is on the run
Murderous thugs are panting to kill her and her husband and 5 children.
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Rushdie gets Lifetime Achievemen Award from PEN
So there ha.