As Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education observed: If schools follow Steiner’s views on science, education will suffer.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Larry Moran takes a creationist quiz for atheists
What do gnu atheists actually believe? That the answer to 1-8 is not “God.”
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Rust Belt Philosophy also bemused by Haught
That’s really Haught’s argument? Yes, that’s really his argument.
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The pope’s visit was such a joy
Everybody found out he’s not an authoritarian but “a little shy”…isn’t that just sweet?
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Anti-gay zeal in Uganda linked to US evangelicals
A tabloid published the names and photographs of “Uganda’s 100 top” gays and lesbians alongside a yellow banner that read “Hang Them.”
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Steiner Waldorf uses bait and switch to get state funding
It has been accepted that because the pedagogy is ‘spiritual’ it must be good.
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Godless bus ads make atheism more familiar
This increases public tolerance of dissenting views and gives more people permission to be open about their unbelief.
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Vatican: Homer and Bart Simpson are Catholics
Executive producer says they are Presbylutherans.
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Freethought Kampala on “scientism”
The invocation of the pejorative term ‘scientism’ is nothing more than a theist’s ploy to derail the debate.
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BBC on women and the economic trainwreck
One big advocate for women’s education is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Managing Director of the World Bank.
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Archbishop Dolan on the New York Times
It “offends Catholic sensitivity, something they [sic] would never think of doing — rightly so — to the Jewish, Black, Islamic, or gay communities.”
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Life with al-Shabaab
“This time, the surgical tool was a plumber’s saw. As before, there were no painkillers.”
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Would atheist schools be a good idea?
The New Humanist asks.
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Jesus and Mo have been reading John Haught
They’re excited about getting carried away by a deeper dimension of reality.
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John Ioannidis researches bad medical information
He charges that as much as 90 percent of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed.
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Activists slam university on Mistry book ban
“Those who should be defending our freedom of speech are not doing their job. If we as civilians also do not speak up, then we are truly lost.”
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Nilanjana Roy on the ratting out of Rohinton Mistry
Roy finds Salman Rushdie’s Luka and the Fire of Life an apt allegory for the Rattistanification of Bombay.
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Bombay U. cuts Mistry novel from reading list
Because Shiv Sena pitched a fit. Mohan Rawale, a Shiv Sena official, said “It is our culture that anything with insulting language should be deleted.”
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UAE: court rules men can “discipline” wives
“According to Islamic law, a man has the “right to discipline” his wife and children.” Just don’t leave a mark.
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Funny how capricious miracles are
If MacKillop were being canonised for being good, there would be less need to question the excessive and sycophantic coverage.