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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Times Interviews Richard Dawkins
‘There’s a widespread perception that I am polemical and strident and shrill…I don’t think I’m strident and shrill.’
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Dawkins Wants to ‘Convert’ ‘Islamic World’
Or rather, he wants to popularize evolution in places where Islam is the dominant religion.
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Novelist Says Atheists Are Intellectually Lazy
Self-righteous – as bad as fundamentalists – fashionable absolutism – Stalin – elite – smug.
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Joan Smith on Women Defying the Taliban
Khaled Hosseini: ‘The struggle of women against traditional forces dates back before the Taliban.’
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Robert Wright Lectures ‘Strident’ Atheists
‘When you define the system this broadly, it takes on a more spiritually suggestive cast.’
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Atheist Teacher Shock-horror
An inquisitor at the ‘Illinois Family Institute’ is frantic that an actual atheist is teaching math.
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Geology and the Evolution of Understanding
17th and 18th century geology shows how views of the world evolved not by ideology but by the growth of a body of evidence.
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Woman to be Caned for Drinking Beer
‘In sharia the punishment is not in the force of the whipping but to bring shame,’ said ‘whipping officer.’
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Human Rights Groups Not Pleased About Caning
In Kalentan authorities have decreed that supermarkets must have segregated checkout queues.
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The Science of Origins
How did the universe begin? Is our universe unique? How did life arise? How does consciousness arise?
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WHO Warns: Homeopathy Not a Cure
Homeopathy does not protect people from, or treat, TB, infant diarrhoea, influenza, malaria and HIV.
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‘More or Less’ Checks Statistics
Radio 4 and the Open University ask a lot of questions.
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Debunking YouTube Hit ‘Muslim Demographics’
Population projection is an inexact science. Making up statistics doesn’t make it more exact.
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Jobeda Ali on Sex Segregation and Sexism
Gender segregation maintains that society is the domain of men, and women are just visitors in it.
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Kenya: Prayer Enlisted in War on Corruption
‘The Church in Kenya is actually very corrupt,’ says evangelical group, but offers Bible guide anyway.
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Boko Haram Introduces Itself
‘Western ways’ are forbidden, first example being ‘the rights and privileges of Women.’ How do you do.
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Tariq Ramadan Fired From Rotterdam Jobs
City of Rotterdam and Erasmus University dismissed Ramadan as ‘integration adviser’ and professor.
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Afghanistan: Threats, Anger, Empty Polling Stations
One universal theme was the low turnout by women. At one station in Kabul, no women had voted.
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Tariq Ramadan Cites ‘Islamophobia’
He argues for a ‘European Islam’ but also speaks of the supremacy over secular law of the Koran and sharia.