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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ben Goldacre on “biological cause” and stigma
Does a “biological cause” story about mental health problems always reduce stigma? Not necessarily.
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Crispian Jago’s alternative therapy flow chart
Acceptable risk?–>Setting head on fire–>Ear candling.
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Finns quit church during gay marriage tv show
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church in Ireland is making it impossible for Church members to formally quit.
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No atheists in collapsed mines
People in horrible situations often turn to god, so there neener neener.
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Catholic church not processing paperwork
The Dublin archdiocese is telling people who want to leave the church that it can’t process applications until canon law is clarified.
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Science Museum opens psychoanalysis exhibition
The Science Museum? Yes.
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Sue Blackmore on aggressive theists
They call atheists aggressive, but they’re spoiling for a fight.
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Imam says rape is impossible in marriage
The president of the Islamic Sharia Council in Britain says men who rape their wives should not be prosecuted because “sex is part of marriage.”
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New BBC guidelines protect religion
“Any content dealing with matters of religion and likely to cause offence to those with religious views must be editorially justified and referred to a senior editorial figure.”
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17 year old girl whipped 100 times at mosque
As all the men of the village stood around her she was beaten on her back with the hard centre stem of a coconut frond.
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Biden, 5 Supreme Court Justices attend Red Mass
To hear a Vatican archbishop tell them secularism is bad and laws are from God. Srsly.
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Hitchens major and Hitchens minor discuss god
The event was put on by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
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Italy: Pakistani woman beaten to death with brick
By her husband, because she opposed an arranged marriage for their daughter. Meanwhile the brother beat his sister with a stick.
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Supreme Court: Christian schools lose appeal
Christian schools wanted U of California to grant college-prep credit for courses using textbooks that replace science with the Bible. -
Jason Rosenhouse on new accommodationism
Atheist spirituality, such as it is, has almost nothing in common with traditional religion.
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16th miner on the way up
Daniel Herrera, the truck driver.
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Hemant Mehta: no need for accommodation
The friendly atheist no longer feels a need to give religion a pass; cites Myers and Coyne.
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Albert Mohler on Jerry Coyne’s article
The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary says “any true science will be perfectly compatible with the truths we know by God’s revelation.”
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PZ v Mooney and Hecht on Point of Inquiry
Yes, that’s one v two. Hecht was supposed to be the interviewer, but…