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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Sudan: Lubna Hussein ‘Guilty’ of Trousers
A fine instead of lashes; Hussein says she will not pay the fine, she will go to prison.
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He’s Free!
Sayed Pervez Kambaksh is out of prison and out of Afghanistan.
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Phil Plait Quits Bloggingheads
Bloggingheads had full-blown creationists being interviewed, and it called that science. Bzzt: done.
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Life is Still Shit for Women in Afghanistan
Afghan women can now work and become MPs, but they risk their lives to do it.
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Terry Glavin on His Comrade Nick Cohen
‘What the world needs now is an uncompromisingly militant feminist movement.’ Yeah.
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Richard Dawkins Talks to The Herald
The teaching of science is under threat by well-funded creationists on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Guardian Reviews The Greatest Show on Earth
‘Still he plugs away at the fundamentalist opposition, courageously getting nowhere.’ Really?
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Extract From The Greatest Show on Earth
Imagine trying to teach Roman history to people who think history started 50 years ago.
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PZ Myers Quits Bloggingheads
The softball interviews made creationists look reasonable, because their peculiar ideas were never confronted.
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Greg Fish on Sticking a Fork in Bloggingheads.tv
Why not to teach the controversy.
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Sholto Byrnes on Religion and the New Statesman
We know nothing, therefore let’s talk about God a lot.
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Yale Graduates Circulate Letter to Yale Press
Letter calls on Press to include toons. Note correction: free speech is not a ‘conservative’ issue.
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Some Catholics Outraged by Kennedy Funeral
Because he was a ‘pro-abortion extremist.’
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Roeder Considering ‘Justifiable Homicide’ Defense
Is it justifiable homicide to shoot an abortion doctor?
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Mediawatchwatch on Saudi Money and Yale
It was the university that called in the ‘experts’ who advised against publishing the toons.
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Religions Class Does Not Infringe Religious Freedom
What parents were demanding was the right to ignorance. This right is certainly not protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Khamenei Warns of Danger of Education
Humanities and liberal arts based on ‘materialism and disbelief in godly and Islamic teachings.’
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The Ayatollahs Fear the Students
Khamenei told students and teachers that study of social science ‘promotes doubts and uncertainty.’
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Lunatics Freak Out Over Obama School Speech
Socialism! Propaganda! The speech will urge students to work hard and stay in school.