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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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From the people threatening to sue Simon Singh
Medical researcher and WDDTY contributor Joseph Hattersley says that the risk of cot deaths increases five-fold at times of geopathic stress.
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Alt health mag threatens to sue Simon Singh
Singh offered to meet the distributors and introduce them to medical experts, but they declined and told him they had “sought legal advice.”
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Jury finds Deanna DeJesus guilty of child neglect
Mistrial on aggravated manslaughter charge for failing to prevent her heavily armed husband from killing their child.
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Soldiers forced to attend prayer for suicide prevention
The students were not given an opportunity to remove themselves. The entire theater was forced into a mass christian prayer.
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Ikea apologizes for airbrushing women out of catalogue
“We are now reviewing our routines to safeguard a correct content presentation from a values point-of-view in the different versions of the Ikea catalogue worldwide,” it said.
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Washington Post reports on Secular Coalition lobbying
“Rogers, in a glittery gold blouse and knee-high boots with four-inch heels…” Say what?
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Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
An unrepentant Marxist, he acknowledged the failure of 20th Century communism but said he had not given up on Marxist ideals.
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Pakistan: Muslims charged with “blasphemy”
Protesters attacked the Sri Krishna Ram temple, broke religious statues, tore up a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, and beat up the temple’s caretaker.
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Katha Pollitt notes that blasphemy is good for you
The rise of the Russian Orthodox church in the former Soviet Union shows that Islam has no monopoly on religious freakouts or their exploitation for political purposes.
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Protesters torch Buddhist temples over FB photo
Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam.
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Woman prosecuted for “letting” her children’s father stab them
The father stabbed every member of his family before killing himself with the knife.
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No Jesus Christ Superstar for Rostov
Orthodox Christians complained, so that was that.
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Iran state media fooled by The Onion
Fars News Agency, a semi-official mouth piece of the Iranian regime, earnestly published a word-for-word duplicate of an article from the Onion.
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Stop calling criticism of Islam ‘Islamophobia’
One doubts that a formulation like “Infidelophobia” will gain traction anytime soon.
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More on “Elder Pastitsios” and blasphemy laws in Greece
Four days before the arrest, MP Christos Pappas from the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party had brought the page to the attention of the justice minister.
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Report on the Creation Evidence Expo in Indianapolis
They have a funny idea of what “evidence” means.
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What is SlutWalk London doing backing Julian Assange?
SlutWalk London has inadvertently lined itself (and its unwitting supporters) up with an unappealing gaggle of rape apologists and victim blamers.
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Obama haters now calling his mother a whore
A pseudo-documentary that slimes Ann Dunham is being mailed to swing-state voters, while D’Souza’s book essentially calls her a fat slut.
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Morsi tells New York Times he is a cultural relativist
He says the US must respect the Arab world’s history and culture, even when that conflicts with Western values.
