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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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UK: Catholic Church Issues Report on Morality
‘The Church says society will rediscover its ability to trust by practising virtue.’ Yes, really.
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How Culture Affects Genes and Vice Versa
Any species that can change the environment can be viewed through the lens of ‘niche construction.’
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Religion-based Homophobia Spreading in Africa
Christian and Muslim clerics have publicly condemned homosexuality for years, calling it a sin.
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Australian Xian Schools Find Science ‘Strident’
School board requires ‘teaching of science as an empirical discipline’ – oh yes, that is pretty strident.
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The Many Theories of Evolution
There are currently twelve, including Madame Blavatsky’s.
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Ninjas in Birmingham
‘Islamic dress is partly an assertion of a challenged identity.’
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HRW: Egypt Should Drop Charges Against Blogger
Ahmad Mostafa, a student charged with blogging about corruption, is being prosecuted in a military court.
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Louis Menand: Can Psychiatry be a Science?
The epistemology of depression is confusing.
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Saudi Woman Sentenced to 300 Lashes
And 1.5 years in jail, for filing harassment complaints without a male guardian present.
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DR Congo: Children Accused of Witchcraft
‘She tried to kill me with a knife. It really hurt and I cannot understand why my mother did it.’
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Maintaining Scholarly Standards in Feminist Literature
If feminism is to be effective, it must subject to serious scrutiny even notions in accord with its societal perceptions.
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Islamists ‘Infiltrate’ the Labour Party
Muslims in London say IFE are enforcing hardline views, curbing behaviour they deem ‘un-Islamic.’
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Flogged for Drinking a Beer While Female
In Malaysia caning is not permitted under civil law, but it is allowed under the Shariah Criminal Code.
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Catholics and Mormons Unite Against Secularism
And a Stanley Fish shall lead them.
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‘I Should Have Read My Islamic Marriage Contract’
She tried to read it, but her grandmother, mother and father persuaded her not to. It’s all about ‘trust.’
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Martha Nussbaum on the Politics of Disgust
‘You can see the role of disgust in racism, anti-Semitism, the subordination of women.’
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How Ireland Lost its Faith
All those dressed-up men in an opulent palace, kissing the pope’s ring, sent the Irish over the edge.
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Jerry Coyne on the Templeton Bribe
Templeton pays journalists to examine ‘the region where science and theology overlap’ and the journalists oblige.