Collins said that he was stunned by Judge Lamberth’s decision, as were most researchers.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jane Mayer on libertarian billionaire Koch brothers
“They have a pattern of lawbreaking, political manipulation, and obfuscation,” says Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity. -
“Past life regression therapy”
Woo has become mainstream; booyah.
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Fewer men training as priests in Ireland
16 men are due to start training for the priesthood this autumn, compared to 39 last year.
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Evan Harris on doctors, religion and medical ethics
A more appropriate headline would have been “Religious doctors less likely to ask your opinion on treatment option when you’re terminally ill”.
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Erfana Bora explains why Dawkins is wrong
She teaches her students science then sends them off to learn the Qu’ranic version; they will then attempt to integrate two worldviews.
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“Faith” schools and religion-and-science
What children are taught in science lessons is undermined by what is taught in religion classes, and by the overall emphasis on faith.
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Nails removed from tortured Sri Lankan maid
Doctors say LP Ariyawathie was deeply traumatized and could not sit down or walk properly.
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PZ Myers tells the CHE what he reads
A book every day or two, Nature, Science, and other journals, blogs by hard-edged godless science writers who don’t mince words.
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Oh no I circumcised my baby!
I didn’t want to, I knew better, I think it stinks, but but but blah blah blah so I did it anyway.
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Jesus and Mo on something from nothing
Jesus asked her, what would a godless universe look like?
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Image of toaster appears on Virgin Mary painting
Church officials report the toaster appears to be a KitchenAid KMTT200OB which is a medium quality four-slice toaster with a one year warranty.
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Journal editor concludes Hauser fabricated data
The editor of Cognition has seen Harvard’s internal investigation. “The graph is effectively a fiction.”
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Irshad Manji on that mosque and Imam Rauf
What will be taught about homosexuals? About agnostics? About atheists? About apostasy? Will Rushdie be lecturing there?
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Hitchens on that “mosque” and Imam Rauf
I do not find myself reassured by the fact that Imam Rauf publicly endorses the most extreme and repressive version of Muslim theocracy.
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Iran limits number of humanities students
Last year Khamenei said humanities “promotes skepticism and doubt in religious principles and beliefs.”
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Ötzi may have had ceremonial burial
Researchers believe his many possessions were funerary items rather than camping gear.
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Russell Blackford on confusion about freedom of religion
Religious freedom is likely to flourish in an environment where the various rival religions are not given any particular respect.
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Susan Jacoby on multiculturalism
“I love you” isn’t the first thing that would come to mind if my father told me I had to marry a stranger.
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Afghanistan: chemical gas poisons girls’ school
46 girls and their teachers were poisoned at the Tuteya Girls’ Primary School in Kabul.