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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Randi Foundation Teams With Dawkins Foundation
And a dozen other secular groups to set up a way to donate money to help the people of Haiti.
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Science and the Battle for Free Speech
Science progresses only through open criticism, and UK libel law makes this impossible.
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Jeremy Havardi on ‘Blasphemy’
If religious beliefs appear absurd and immoral by liberal standards, let us feel free to say so.
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Hitchens on Blaming Geology, not the Devil
If any single thing explains the abject misery of Haiti, it is the prevalence of religious cultism.
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Tel Aviv: ‘Guru’ Arrested for Enslavement and Rape
He was ‘romantically involved’ with 17 women, is suspected of raping several of them. How dreamy.
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‘Guru-like Saint’ Had 17 Women, 60 Children
Ratzon banned the women from communicating with men and demanded absolute obedience.
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One Good Thing About Pat Robertson
His claim underscores the absurdity of religious belief, instead of obscuring it with touchy-feely doubletalk
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Bishops Horrified by Equality and Rights
Believers must be able to insist that homosexuality is a sin and that only men and women can marry.
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Senior Member of Hizb ut-Tahrir Teaches at LSE
Reza Pankhurst is a postgraduate student and teaches for the course ‘States, Nations and Empires.’
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Pope Blames Atheists for Copenhagen Summit
Moral sense comes from God; look at those materialistic and atheistic regimes; case closed.
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UK: Government is Friends With MCB Again
The ‘communities secretary’ said the separation was simply too tragic.
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The Never-ending Horror of Pat Robertson
Writing horror stories in the blood of innocent victims of a monstrous natural occurrence – again.
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Why Do Newspapers Report on ‘Miracles’?
Why are editors who are so resistant to the evidence for climate change so uncritical about this nonsense?