“There are discrepancies between some of the information that appeared on Ms Dorries’ blog and the information she supplied to the Commissioner.”
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Allah honored wives by instating beatings
Don’t make them ugly now, the helpful deity said.
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Joan Smith on romanticized violence
Today’s Islamists display a familiar sense of grievance, self-aggrandisement and contempt for democratic processes.
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Freethought Kampala on reporting on witchcraft
Our concern is that the local media tend not to take a skeptical-enough approach to stories pertaining to witchcraft.
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Italian women are not amused by Berlusconi
He says it’s better to chase women than to be gay, then he says he’s a victim of the mafia.
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My Jesus is bigger says Polish priest
He looks meaner, too.
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Famous 900 foot Jesus appears in Polish town
Ok it’s 108 feet, but that’s close enough.
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New resource to confront misleading CAM claims
The Nightingale Collaboration seeks volunteers to help challenge misleading claims made by practitioners on websites and elsewhere.
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Some things children should not be taught
Leaders at Soul Survivor meetings have told children that witch doctors can stunt the mental and physical capacities of children by cursing them.
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Jerry Coyne reviews “What Technology Wants”
Technology is teleological, but evolution is not.
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Hitchens on the phenomenology of cancer
It’s no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don’t have a body, I am a body.
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Philosopher and psychologist discuss brain training
Through brain training we may be able to develop new ‘second’ natures, and reprogram our responses to things.
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Joseph Hoffmann ponders the election
We can never count on the American people to do the right thing, whether they choose kings over republics or republics over kings.
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Could there be evidence of a god?
Greta Christina says yes, but we need a coherent god-hypothesis to begin with.
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How to write about gnu atheists: a guide
Gnu atheism shouldn’t be presented as an intellectual position. Repeatedly emphasize hostility to organized religion as the source of their disbelief.
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Politics: sexism hasn’t disappeared yet
It discourages a lot of women from running for office.
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Charles Freeman reviews “God’s Philosophers”
Hannam has no understanding of the intellectual inhibitions that arise from ring-fencing large areas of knowledge as “faith.”
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Is Britain an anti-Christian country?
Of course not, but it’s fun to pretend it is and make a big fuss.
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YouTube takes down al-Awlaki videos
There’s an issue with incitement to murder.
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Student gets life sentence for stabbing MP
She watched Anwar al-Awlaki on YouTube and decided to kill the Labour MP for East Ham.