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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Shock: Vicar Criticizes Atheist Bus Campaign
Who are the BHA to tell parents to stop labeling their children? Who is Jan Ainsworth to tell the BHA to stop?
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Nick Cohen Asks: Where Are the New Atheists?
When we need them, as the government tries once again to ride the Islamist tiger.
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The Onion: Montessori School of Dentistry
Students are encouraged to break away from medical tradition and discover their very own root canal procedures.
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Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God
There are no good reasons to believe that reality is split between two categorically different realms.
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The Manufacture of Conspiracy Theory
Chomsky, free speech, the Bosnian Serb camps, ITN v Living Marxism, Moral Maze.
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R Joseph Hoffmann Reviews Karen Armstrong
Armstrong, friend to all religion, needs to write less and read more. And think about what she reads.
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Ben Goldacre on a Delayed Warning
A story about how risk information is disseminated to patients and doctors, and how it can be disappeared.
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Russell Blackford on the Move to Ban Blasphemy
Deep concern about the implications for freedom of speech is totally appropriate.
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John Gray on the Leninist Cabaret
Zizek is at least honest, while Hardt and Negri mix strangulated jargon and toe-curling uplift.
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Archbishop to Pope: We Disagree
About women, and about other things. Maybe this ecumenical stuff won’t work after all.
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UK: Many Muslim Schools Out of Money
Non-state Muslim ‘faith schools’ may close; some parents may send children to Pakistan.
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The Problem of the Oblivious White Male Atheist
The women of atheism seem to be semi-invisible.
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Peter Tatchell on Tomorrow’s ‘No Sharia’ Rally
‘The religious right, which exists in all faiths, is a serious threat to human freedom wherever it manifests itself.’
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Behind the Public Face of Scientology
Scientology is a joke, but people still subscribe to its pseudo-Freudian science fiction beliefs.
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Algeria, Pakistan et al. Seek Blasphemy Ban
The OIC countries are lobbying a UN committee to agree that a treaty protecting religions is necessary.
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Fox News Runs Wrong Video of ‘Crowds’
Ran video supposed to be Palin drawing crowds now, but was from 2008. Naughty.
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Kinder Gentler Catholic Bishops
Contraception, sex outside marriage, divorce are no longer ‘evil’; they are ‘objectively wrong.’
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‘Psychic’ Cop Claims Religious Discrimination
Claims he was sacked for believing that mediums should be consulted in criminal investigations.
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Iraq Spends Millions on Magic Bomb-finders
A proprietary process of electro-static matching of the ionic charge and structure of the substance…