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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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On religious texts and the modern world
Only in religion do ancient texts brimming over with superstition and ideas contrary to modern human rights get a pass.
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R Joseph Hoffmann on pedantic multiculturalism
A zealous mullah and a zealous priest wear different tunics, but the intolerance that makes their lives happy has the same source.
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Sam Harris on what “moderate” imams should say
“Our traditional ideas about martyrdom, jihad, blasphemy, apostasy, and the status of women must be abandoned…”
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Scientists criticize stem cell ruling
But Tony Perkins of the “Family Research Council” welcomed it.
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Ben Goldacre wonders: are exams getting easier?
Some people say they are, some say they aren’t, but how do they know?
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Soldiers required to attend evangelical concert
“Spiritual Fitness Concert” featured a band “who aren’t afraid to take an aggressive stance when it comes to spreading the gospel.”
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IHEU condemns attack on Leo Igwe’s family
Protests to the Nigerian government.
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Priest suspected in bombing was protected
Seán Brady said he accepted the report’s findings, but said the church did not engage in a cover-up.
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NY Times says stoning is misunderstood
It’s not prescribed by the Koran. It’s rare. It requires strict conditions. Anyway societies evolve.
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Forced adoptions in East Germany
All it took to be judged a bad parent was to infringe on vague “socialist guidelines.”
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Swaziland: albino girl, 11, murdered
Witch doctors think the blood and body parts of albinos can bring good luck when used in potions.
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Sex segregation for Jerusalem light rail?
Not a problem, says CEO Yair Naveh. A problem, says Rachel Azariya of Jerusalem city council.
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Smug self-satisfied atheism shock-horror
“Unlike you, a believer,” the smug atheist boasts, “I lack the hubristic will to know about life, the universe, and everything.”
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Judge rules against Obama’s stem cell policy
“Embryos are preborn human life that should be protected and not destroyed,” said one of the Christian zealots who sued.
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Terry Glavin on telling lies about Aisha
Reactionary scum are reactionary scum, the world round.
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Lauryn Oates on Day of Action Against Stoning
How does one write a law mandating burying a woman up to the neck and throwing jagged stones at her head while she screams through a death by torture?
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AI urges Saudis not to sever a spinal cord
A court in Tabuk asked hospitals about cutting a man’s spinal cord to carry out the punishment of qisas requested by the injured victim.
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Do you believe in Zeus?
Kali? Athena? Loki?
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Phil Plait on reactions to his “don’t be a dick” speech
Oddly enough, many of them pointed out the lack of evidence and examples. Hey there are lots, ok?!