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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Churches Are Involved in Child Witch-hunts
A growing number of children in Africa are accused of witchcraft by pastors, then tortured or killed.
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Oklahoma’s Grotesque New Abortion Law
Will require women to reveal an array of personal information, which will be posted on an official website.
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London: More Religious School Holidays
The policy is intended to ‘raise awareness of different faiths and cultures within the school community.’
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Nick Cohen on the Rebranded BNP
The ability of democratic Britain to expose sectarianism will be on trial when Nick Griffin appears on ‘Question Time.’
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Research Shows: Pain is Pain
Defenders of religious slaughter claim that unstunned animals don’t feel the pain, study says they do.
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Jurors Consulted the Bible During Deliberations
But the execution is going forward; the Supreme Court has declined to review the case.
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Michael Shermer to Bill Maher on Vaccinations
On alternative medicine and vaccinations you have fallen prey to cognitive biases and conspiratorial thinking.
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Ben Goldacre: Chiropractors Cause Controversy
For those with the finances to try to silence their critics, this has been a week of spectacular own goals.
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Vatican ‘Diplomat’ Scolds Secularists
Secularized citizens must not deny that religious images of the world may express truth.
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‘I Feel the Children Will Later Suffer’
A Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple.
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Shuggy on ‘Postmodern Theology’
Funny that Paul took so many days off from apophatic theology.
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Jack Miles on Robert Wright and Karen Armstrong
‘A god whose existence you can prove is a god to whom you cannot pray, postmodern theology argues…’
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There Should Never, Ever Be an Ayn Rand Revival
All bargains in a market system are characterised by an information deficit on one side or the other.
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Matthew Parris Visits the Relics of ‘St’ Thérèse
And there he bumps into Tony Blair.
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30 Republicans Vote Against Rape Amendment
Government has no business telling corporations not to force employees to sign away their rights!
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ASA Upholds Complaint Against Danone Ad
Viewer challenged the claim that Actimel was ‘scientifically proven to help support your kids’ defences.’
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Two Die at Arizona ‘Spiritual Retreat’
The resort offers colon cleansing, healing by harnessing the consciousness of a dolphin, ‘vortex experiences.’
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BCA Claims Singh ‘Maliciously Attacked’ BCA
‘BCA would never seek to stifle legitimate open scientific debate.’ Oh obviously not.
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BCA Alleged Malice in Simon Singh Case
‘This is a shocking and serious (and indeed defamatory) accusation.’
