Now that he’s dead, it’s safe to call him a fascist – twice.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Another Anecdote
The New Atheists + modern biblical scholarship = infidel.
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Cartoonist on the Pope’s Kind Invitation
To all those unhappy disaffected Anglicans looking for a home…
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Scientists v Politicians
Government refused to accept expert views of a council set up to judge relative harms of different drugs.
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US Opposes Ban on Religious ‘Defamation’
As the OIC is pressing the UN HRC to adopt a resolution condemning the ‘defamation’ of religion.
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Nick Cohen: a Policy at Once Sinister and Naïve
The entire FCO hierarchy was supporting a policy of encouraging the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies.
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Norm Levitt 1943-2009
Co-author of ‘Higher Superstition,’ author of ‘Prometheus Bedeviled,’ defender of science and reason.
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Scientologists Convicted of Fraud
Unlike the US, France has always refused to recognise Scientology as a religion.
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First Order of Business: Inspect Women’s Bras
Somalia is a wretched country in the grip of famine and chaos but officials there are busy inspecting bras.
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Sharia Spreading in Indonesia
Islamist parties tanked in elections, but local governments pass Sharia-based rules on conduct and dress.
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Plot to Avenge Motoons
Two men men allegedly planned to kill Flemming Rose and Kurt Westergaard.
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Priests Told: Ignore That Letter on Child Abuse
The letter attacks the Catholic Church for making itself immune from being sued over clerical sexual abuse.
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Dawkins on the Vatican’s Outreach
Ratzinger urges the Anglican church to send its misogynists and bigots over to Rome.
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Leaving Scientology
Better late than never.
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Wafa Sultan’s ‘A God Who Hates’
The god who hates, she says, specifically hates women.
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James Richmond Disputes Dvir Abramovich
How are we are to decide which parts of the holy books are to be taken as the inflexible Word of God?
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Can We Talk About Religion, Please?
We should discuss religious institutions as we would others – courteously and vigorously.
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Hitchens on What He Has Learned From Debates
That religious believers are not all as convinced as he’d expected.
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University of Chicago Darwin-fest Oct 29-31
Richard Lewontin, Ronald Numbers, Marc Hauser, and more.
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Stephen Law on 50 Voices of Disbelief
Even better than he was expecting; a great read.