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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ben Goldacre on How Myths Are Made
A web of systematic and self-reinforcing distortion, resulting in the creation of a myth.
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Des Moines Offended That Atheists Exist
Ads said ‘Don’t believe in God? You are not alone.’ They were taken down after three days.
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Iowa Governor ‘Disturbed’ That Atheists Exist
‘Can understand why other Iowans were also disturbed.’ Indeed; it is very disturbing.
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Bush Went to War to Thwart Gog and Magog
So he told Chirac in 2003 at least. Sans blague.
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Leo Igwe on Child Rights and ‘Witchcraft’
Thousands of children alleged to be witches have been tortured, thrown out, abandoned or killed by family members.
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Jerry Coyne Reviews Unscientific America
A book slight in both length and substance…
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Norm Allen on the Nigerian Nightmare
George Ongere of the Center for Inquiry/Kenya says the violence will not deter humanists in Kenya.
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Tampa ‘Town Hall Meeting’ Turns Ugly
Idiots shouting ‘tyranny’ tried to silence The Enemy.
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More From Leo Igwe
Condemnation of the recent campaign of terror inflicted upon the so-called ‘child witches’ at CRARN.
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Susan Neiman on Moral Clarity
Rejections of the Enlightenment result in premodern nostalgia or postmodern suspicion.
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Bill Cooke on Paul Kurtz
Kurtz’s attempts to articulate a positive, active and compassionate humanism are a constructive contribution.
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Nigeria: Church Attacks Humanist Conference
Leo Igwe was attacked by church members at a conference he organised on ‘Child Rights and Witchcraft.’
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Child Abuse in Nigeria
In Akwa Ibom State children were labeled witches, abused and thrown out into the streets.
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Raid on ‘Witch’ Children’s Shelter in Nigeria
Raiders accompanied by lawyer who represents evangelist Helen Upkabio, who spreads belief in ‘witches.’
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Gerald Cohen on Philosophy Bites
Can differences in income be morally justified? Should we expect rich people to give their money to the poor? G A Cohen discusses.
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Vatican Cracks Down on RC Sisters in US
A ‘distrust of women who are not directly and submissively under male, ecclesiastical control.’
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Potions to Prevent Swine Flu
You don’t get swine flu because you’re out of shape or under stress.
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The Wisdom of Crowds
Research into how people behave at mass gatherings shows that crowds act in a highly rational way.
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Nesrine Malik on Lubna Hussein
Some 50 female protesters braved tear gas and baton beatings from police outside court yesterday.