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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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PZ on Deep Rifts With the Skeptics
Oh noes, trying to bust Ratzinger will ‘hurt the skeptical movement’!
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Rust Belt Philosophy on Hume and Harris
It would be nice if obeying metaphysical rules always led to social goods for the majority of people, but…
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Bishop Blames Jews for Church’s Difficulties
‘They do not want the church, they are its natural enemies. Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are God killers.’
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Connecticut Bishops Fight Sex Abuse Bill
The proposed change to the law would put ‘all Church institutions, including your parish, at risk.’
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Hitchens on the Pope and the Law
Ratzinger and diocese were concerned only with one question: Can this hurt Holy Mother Church?
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Gita Sahgal Has Left Amnesty International
Said her years of working for women’s rights had been a waste of time because of AI’s work with Begg and Cageprisoners.
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Sahgal Case Proves AI’s Critics Are Right
Critics say AI has diluted its defence of universal human rights by allying with a group that rejects that principle.
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Nick Cohen on Gita Sahgal
Amnesty has persuaded itself that Islamism is not objectionable as long as it does not threaten civilians.
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Pope is Not a Head of State
Mussolini declared the Vatican a state. No doubt, but Musso lost that particular fight.
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Massimo Pigliucci Disputes Sam Harris
In what sense can science answer (as opposed to inform) ethical questions?
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Girl Bleeds to Death After Forced Marriage
In Yemen, where more than a quarter of girls are married before the age of 15.
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Nicholas Kristof on Another Dead Child Bride
She was tied down and raped by her husband, according to her mother, police, and medical reports.
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Vatican Can No Longer Ignore International Law
Which now counts the widespread or systematic sexual abuse of children as a crime against humanity.
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Even Ruse is Disgusted by the Vatican
There is no concern whatsoever for the victims. Simply fear of the story getting out and advice for how to prevent it happening.
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Official Body Tries to Hide Scientific Ignorance
National Science Board Survey removed survey sections on evolution and cosmology.
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Nicholas Lezard Reviews Baggini on Spin
The book that started life here as ‘Bad Moves’ column.
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Meera Nanda on God and Globalization Gospel
India is not the only country where markets are supposed to be exorcising the demons of religious fanaticism.
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Canadian Bishops Tried to Hide Abuse
Canadian bishops sought to hide a pedophile priest’s crimes by urging Vatican not to promote him.
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Ratzinger Slow to Defrock Abusive Priest
Priest pled nolo for tying up and molesting two boys; Ratzinger dawdled, citing the good of the Church.