Some 50 female protesters braved tear gas and baton beatings from police outside court yesterday.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Royal Family’s Support for Homeopathy is a Joke
BMA and MHRA have condemned Ainsworths and ‘Swine Flu Formula.’ Time the Royals did the same.
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The Home Office Have Assembled Some Evidence
Ben Goldacre takes a look at it. He asks if it is a joke.
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Prince Declares Mind Unchanged
‘This study hasn’t changed His Royal Highness’s views one bit.’
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Holford Watch on the FSA and Organic Foods
It is inappropriate to put figures about purported nutritional advantages of organic food into the public debate in the absence of any context.
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Ben Goldacre on Soil Association’s Bad Arguments
SA seek to undermine the public’s understanding of what a ‘systematic review’ is.
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Police Beat Women Protesting Lubna Hussein Trial
Hussein said she would take the issue all the way to Sudan’s constitutional court if necessary.
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Andrew Brown Pitches a Fit at ‘Militant’ Atheists
Clock strikes twelve.
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Daughter Turns Atheist – Call the FBI
Or an exorcist.
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The Epistemology of Photoshopping
Bachelard, Lacan, Heisenberg, Peggy J Bowers – it all adds up.
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Homeopathic ‘Pharmacy’ Sells Sugar Pills
Ainsworth’s, homeopaths to the royal family, sells sugar pills as swine flu treatment.
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The Chiropractors’ World Unravels
They are getting more attention than they wanted. Sad.
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Americans Have No Sense of Humour
Says BBC reporter on his way out the door.
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Rosenhouse on Unscientific America Part 2
Isn’t it obvious that the problem is the attitude that places religious faith in a privileged position relative to science?
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Kara Neumann’s Father Convicted in her Death
But they are devout Christians who were faithful to their convictions, so…
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Marjane Sur Tous les Fronts!
Marjane Satrapi, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Bernard-Henri Levy protest the Iranian election.
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Oregon Faith-healing Father Gets 60 Days
Convicted in the death of baby from illness that could easily have been cured with antibiotics.
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The Huffington Post on Enemas v Swine Flu
Why bogus treatments and crackpot medical theories dominate HuffPo.
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Debut of an Expatriate Blog
The essence of foreignness is a difference in common sense.
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Why Markets Can’t Fix US Healthcare
Because paying for your health care is a loss from the insurers’ point of view