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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Cairo Rights Group Criticizes OIC, Arab League
Accuses the league of using national sovereignty to remain silent about human rights violations.
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Archbishop Complains of Labour’s Cruelty
The government treats ‘faith’ as a problem, an oddity. Shock horror!
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Theodicy: Francis Collins or Primo Levi
Theodicy involves justifying horrors.
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The New Statesman on Islam and Feminism
The Qur’an has plenty of verses hostile to women, but if you spend most of your life at it, you can……
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Magdalenes Should Get Compensation Too
The church should compensate all the people whose lives it wrecked. That’s a lot of people.
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TES Says How Great Steiner Schools Are
Yes, anthroposophy seems a bit odd, but not to worry, because.
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Holfordwatch on Steinerism and Bad Science
Relying on bad science to justify educational choices is a truly sorry situation.
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Uganda Bans Female Genital Mutilation
About three million women and girls undergo FGM globally every year; nearly 140 million already have.
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Ugandan MP Alice Alaso Welcomes FGM Ban
‘It’s a very bad practice. It’s cruel, it traumatises people, it’s led children to drop out of school.’
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Jesus and Mo and the Bloody New Atheists
Always asking how we know what we claim to know – it’s so obnoxious.
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Jesus and Mo Want Tolerance
And the barmaid to cover up.
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Victims Left Cold by Pope’s Statement
‘No one has taken responsibility for what went on in Dublin. There is no accountability.’
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16 Organizations Rebuke Yale Over Motoons
ACLU and others sign statement chastising Yale for not including the cartoons in Jytte Klausen’s book.
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Sense and Nonsense About ‘Evil’ and ‘Rationality’
On the peculiar form of naïve rationalism that currently labels itself the ‘rational actor’ approach.
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Pope ‘Distressed’ by Irish Child Abuse Report
Now that it’s all been public, he expresses ‘his profound regret.’ Too late, diddums.
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Greta Christina on the Atheist Ladies’ Auxiliary
Women don’t want to argue about what’s true, we just want to get along. Not.
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Religion and Jurisprudence
Six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholics, but it’s impermissible to talk about that.
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Spain: Men Planned to Stone a Woman to Death
Nine men kidnapped a woman, held her prisoner, and sentenced her to death by stoning for ‘adultery.’
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Women Challenge Irish Abortion Ban in Court
Lawyers argue that the ban breaches several articles of the European convention on human rights.