United Farm Workers urges unemployed Americans to sign up for backbreaking jobs at low pay in dangerous conditions.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ron Rosenbaum is back from the Templeton gig
And he has ever such a good idea about how to be not one of those pesky atheists but something much nicer.
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Vatican fighting US criminal investigation
Equates itself to the “United States President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense and ambassador.”
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Widdecombe to be next UK ambassador to Vatican
The Coalition wants ” to stress a commitment to the Catholic Church.” Why?
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Russell Blackford on the uses and abuses of anonymity
If you use it to defame real, identifiable people who do not possess vast political power but do have real reputations, then be careful you’re not abusing the privilege.
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Investigation of a complicated but clumsy fraud
Noisy public deception gets taken apart over a period of nine days.
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Sock puppet blog flames out
An anonymous blog that spent most of its time misrepresenting four bloggers and writing fake comments has suddenly shut down.
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Pope demands impunity for self and colleagues
Is enraged at Belgium; Vatican calls Belgian law enforcement worse than “the old communist regimes.”
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We’re bad at making rational decisions about risk
Should government decisions about risk reflect our irrational foibles or the rational calculations of sober risk assessment?
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Emily Dickinson was an extraordinarily powerful woman
An artist who was intimidated by nothing—the opposite of a fear-driven recluse or a lovelorn spinster.
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Nick Cohen on a startling rebirth of big money
Conspicuous consumption thrives while the humble are punished for a recession brought on by the mighty.
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Russell Blackford on “extremism” and dogmatism
One’s position on a spectrum says nothing about how dogmatic one is.
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Atheist bashing at the Evolution meetings
A 2 hours symposium was devoted to accommodationism; someone from AAAS said atheists are extremists.
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No, rape is not “cultural”
The European aid worker who dismissed the violence as “cultural” implied that Congolese women should expect to be raped.
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Crispian Jago: Skeptic Park with Evan Harris
Ben, Dickie and Simon ask questions.
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David Colquhoun on herbal medicine
It need not be mystical nonsense, but it usually is.
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Study finds fetus can’t feel pain before 24 weeks
Nerve connections in the brain are not sufficiently formed to register pain.
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Sholto Byrnes: Rethinking Islamism IV
It’s much much much nicer than you think. Really.
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Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being right-wing.”
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Reporter has opinions, resigns
Is it possible to report accurately despite opinions?