Wants a public apology from several newspapers that published a Motoon in 2008.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Dawkins Caused the Sedalia T-shirt Problem!
He is an atheist. He defends evolution. Ergo we must freak out over a T-shirt to fight this atheist assault on our schools.
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Is Depression an Evolutionary Adaptation?
A pair of evolutionary psychiatrists claim it is, and say that drugs only make things worse.
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What Happens to Pets After the Rapture?
Kind helpful blaspheming atheists will give them a loving home. [link fixed!]
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Bishop Warns of ‘Aggressive Secularism’
Says the established religion must speak out more to preserve the country’s Christian heritage.
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No Evolution T-shirts for High School Band
‘The district is required by law to remain neutral where religion is concerned’…and evolution is a religion.
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‘Western Feminist’ Rebukes ‘Western Feminists’
We should support religious feminism abroad; otherwise we’re arrogant and full of ourselves.
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Ben Goldacre on Advertising via Journalism
Newspapers are short of cash, and they print PR-reviewed ‘research’ straight from the press release.
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Goldacre and Science Minister Debate: Tix Free
An important issue, good that a politician is taking it seriously.
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Health Warning: Exercise Makes You Fat
The kind of headline you want to see: it’s affirmative, it’s reassuring, it gives you permission to sit on your arse all day.
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Faith Healers Watched Boy Die of Appendicitis
State law has an exemption for ‘a duly accredited Christian Science practitioner’ but no other religion.
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Women and Islam
In Turkey, 69% of all female health workers polled said violence against women is sometimes excusable.
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Jason Rosenhouse Reviews Keith Ward
What could be simpler than a disembodied eternal intelligence capable of bringing worlds into being with an act of will?
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Moses Inspires Jesus and Mo
Jesus has these friends at the Templeton Foundation…
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Ziauddin Sardar Explains About the Koran
Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd, Muslim Spain, the Blue Mosque! See?
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Clive James on ‘Honor’ Murders
The words “community” and “culture” are starting to sound like weasel words for institutionalised sadism.
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Nick Cohen on Turning a Blind Eye to Misogyny
Mainstream opinion does not consider the oppression of women a pressing concern when it is done in the name of culture or religion.
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Normblog on Wisdom from Slavoj Zizek
Or not so much wisdom as sorry claptrap.
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Mali: Women’s Rights Bill Blocked
Muslim groups have been protesting against the law ever since parliament adopted it in early August.
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Mali: Wives Must Obey Husbands
‘We’re not trying to make women slaves. The head of the family is the man, and everyone in the family has to obey him.’