On his Templeton ‘Fellowship.’… Read the rest
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.
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Fox News Accuses Obama of Favoring Atheists 
Feb 27th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sean Hannity claims religious leaders have not been invited to the White House. Oh please.… Read the rest
Fundamentalists Pitch Fit at Atheists in White House
Feb 27th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The fact that this meeting is happening at all is an affront to the vast majority of people of all faiths.’… Read the rest
Allen Esterson on Alana Cash on Mileva Marić
Feb 26th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Evidence lacking, evidence pointing the other way, evidence twisted then twisted again.… Read the rest
Russell Blackford on Stanley Fish
Feb 26th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Fish thinks the classical liberal tradition of Locke, Mill, and Rawls leads to an impoverishment of politics.… Read the rest
Simon Singh and the Silencing of the Scientists
Feb 26th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘It is what is not published or has to be omitted because of a lawyer’s letter,’ notes Evan Harris.… Read the rest
A Festering Problem in Internet Culture
Feb 26th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Anonymous flaming. Richard Dawkins has had enough of it, and he’s not the only one.… Read the rest
Chris Mooney is Named a Templeton Fellow [pdf]
Feb 26th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What a surprise!… Read the rest
‘Saving the Sacred in a Secular Age’ Conference
Feb 25th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Templeton Foundation co-sponsors conference presenting ‘religious responses to contemporary secularism.’… Read the rest
Timothy Egan on the Missionary Impulse
Feb 25th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Laura Silsby owed her former employees unpaid wages, so she thought she would be useful in Haiti.… Read the rest
Rushdie is Writing a Book on the Fatwa
Feb 25th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What it’s like to have theocrats in charge of your life.… Read the rest
Intelligent People Have Evolutionarily Novel Values
Feb 25th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Intelligence does not correlate with values old enough to have been shaped by evolution.… Read the rest
Senior Saudi Cleric Orders Killing of Muslims Who
Feb 25th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Who allow the sexes to mix freely in the workplace or in educational institutions.… Read the rest
Pregnant Nicaraguan Woman Denied Treatment
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
For metastatic cancer. If she wanted cancer treatment, she shouldn’t have gotten pregnant!… Read the rest
The Freethinker Talks to A C Grayling
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
About life the universe and everything.… Read the rest
Stanley Fish Has Read Another Book
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
This one by Steven Smith, who says there are no secular reasons. Fish is impressed.… Read the rest
Francis Collins ‘Proves the Rationality of Faith’
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And he does it once and for all, at that.… Read the rest
No Anti-Hate Banners for Wyoming!
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Not if they include no hate for gay people. All very well to oppose hate, but there is a limit.… Read the rest
Pope Should Come Clean About Magdalenes
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The church that revered Mary the Mother of God, yet treated all mortal women as sinners and whores. … Read the rest
Religious Schools Allowed to Teach Nonsense
Feb 24th, 2010 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There’s no subject other than sex that schools can teach with their own version of the truth. … Read the rest
