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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jesus and Mo on moral bankruptcy
They have their moral compass in good order.
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Telegraph reports its own hatred and parochialism
Media reporter informs us of fury of Odone at C4 documentary on pope.
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Peter Beinart on Zionism and liberalism
In Israel today, humane, universalistic Zionism does not wield power; it is gasping for air.
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Reza Aslan on the academy
We need scholars who understand that there is no division between the world of academia and the popular world.
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Thinking through the freedom flotilla
If there is to be a future, it means thinking through the problems in ways that get beyond the familiar intransigence.
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Nathan Schneider talks to Richard Amesbury
Atheism has always been “otherized” as the opposite of what America represents.
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Jack of Kent on an illiberal judgment
The CPS position on Section 127 is simply intolerable in a free society.
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Iran: 26 people in imminent danger of execution
The Iranian authorities are trying to spread fear to prevent new protests on the anniversary of the elections.
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Gita Sahgal talks to Asaba Post
When identity claims are smuggled in as part of non-discrimination norms, the goal of equality can easily be derailed.
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HolfordWatch on fish oil excitement
The finding is interesting, but it does not show that fish oil pills help with concentration, ADHD or depression.
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Ben Goldacre on the return of fish oil
More excited reporting of not so exciting research.
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Murders of Congolese activists must be investigated
Chebeya was an outspoken critic of corruption and human rights abuses.
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DRC: police chief admits role in murder of Chebeya
Floribert Chebeya, head of the human rights group Voix des Sans Voix, was found dead on Wednesday.
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Australia: doctors oppose FGM
That includes ‘ritual nicking.’
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Cristina Odone demonstrates Catholic liberality
Says Dawkins “peddles lies.” Clearly she knows he won’t sue for libel, so she feels free to libel him.
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Kristof’s strident review
‘Hirsi Ali denounces Islam with a ferocity that I find strident, potentially feeding religious bigotry.’
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Andrew Roberts on Nicholas Kristof on Ayaan Hirsi Ali
For true stridency one should read Kristof’s almost unhinged response to Hirsi Ali’s book.
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Peter Tatchell to do C4 documentary on pope
Widdecombe, Odone, Jack Valero of Opus Dei pitch fits.
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Vatican wants to engage with atheists
But only with the ‘noble’ ones, not the polemical kind – no Onfray or Dawkins or Hitchens thanks.