A statement suggested she had been cleared but a private letter to the NSS said the complaint was partly upheld.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The AAAS “Dialogue on Science and Religion”
Some of the scientists said unfriendly things about “the new atheists” – surprise surprise.
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Michael De Dora on science and religion
The “appeal to common practice” is a fallacy.
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Women’s rights and “peace” in Afghanistan
We are told that violations of women’s rights are part of someone else’s culture, and that we have no business interfering.
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Ben Goldacre on the Independent on bad science
A worrying resistance to the idea that anyone should dare to engage in legitimate criticism.
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If the earth quakes, blame the scientists
Italian seismologists are now being indicted and investigated for manslaughter, because they failed to shout “earthquake!”
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Matt Ridley on rational optimism
At some point in human history, ideas began to meet and mate, to have sex with each other.
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Do you care if what you believe is true or not?
Greta Christina wonders about people who explicitly say they don’t care whether the things they believe are true.
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George Pitcher “leaves” the Telegraph
Did he jump, or was he pushed? Were his attacks on Evan Harris too much even for the Telegraph?
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New report on sharia in Britain
Sharia courts work against rather than for equality, and are incompatible with human rights.
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Ireland: rights groups tell bishops where to go
ICCL seriously doubts that the Irish Catholic bishops retain sufficient moral authority to pontificate on the Civil Partnership Bill.
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TV imam Zakir Naik banned from UK
BBC is oddly evasive about why.
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Clash of “communities” in Israel
Ultra-orthodox Ashkenazi parents don’t want their daughters going to school with Sephardim.
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Bunting thinks the MCB is “the Muslim community”
Still. After all this time.
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Journalists face obstacles
And harassment and intimidation tactics by federal officials and local police, as well as BP employees and contractors.
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BP and government still blocking media access
BP says they’re not, but they are.
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FGM at Cornell
But at Cornell they call it clitoroplasty, so it sounds sciency.
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Oxytocin promotes parochial altruism
Researchers at U of Amsterdam find that oxytocin appears to lead to “defensive” aggression against threatening outgroups.
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OIC states push for UN action on ‘Islamophobia’
The new mandate is likely to see increased UN pressure to prevent criticism of Islam.
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Teenage couple tortured to death in Delhi
By the girl’s father and uncle, because the boy was of a “lower” caste.