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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Fundamentalist Exams on a Par With A-levels
Material taught includes ‘the Loch Ness monster helps to disprove evolution.’
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Pope Tony Launches UK Tour
Will begin in Durham then process South.
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Tageszeitung Talks to Activist Alham Abrahimnejad
When women stand up in public and say they want the same rights as men, it is a major protest.
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John Gray the Apocalypticist Dreamer
Why is Gray rebuking Garton Ash for repudiating the term ‘Enlightenment fundamentalist’?
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John Gray Makes a Huge Concession
‘Although they are often intolerant, today’s evangelists for secular humanism do not preach or practise violence.’
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Joan Smith Reviews ‘Does God Hate Women?’
‘The authors demolish any amount of modern cant.’ Ah, music.
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On Communication: a Philosophical Dialogue
Shut up he explained.
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Texas: Board of Ed Wants More ‘Faith’ in History
Appoints conservative non-historians who want to emphasize the bible and drop Thurgood Marshall.
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Texas Curriculum Debate Marred by Ideologues
The board appointed a family-values activist and a minister who specializes in ‘Christian heritage.’
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Former Doctor Helped Pay for Trip to Dignitas
‘Arrest me,’ says Michael Irwin to police. Poll shows 3/4 of Britons want assisted suicide made legal.
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‘Atheist’ Camp Will Disappoint Children
Because most people aren’t rational. So children should go to Irrationality Camp?
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The Rise of Atheist Stand-up
All share an intellectual approach to the world and to comedy itself.
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Adam Hochschild: Rape of the Congo
Almost all the warring factions have used rape as a calculated method of sowing terror.
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Letters Reply to Sam Harris on Francis Collins
‘Science reaches beyond itself to undervalue mythic insight’ etc etc.
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Sleeping Bags and Critical Thinking
The camp insists that when it comes to God, it is not telling the children what to think but how to think.
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Unartistic America Reviewed
To improve art literacy in America, neorealists should pretend to respect crap that could be painted by a 5-year-old.
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Scientists Protest Lack of Evolution Teaching
Say the new science curriculum for English primary schools should include teaching on natural selection.
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Khartoum: Lubna Hussein Trousers Trial
Lubna Hussein was among 13 women arrested by Sudan’s public order police for wearing trousers.
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Nigeria: Islamist Group Kills 150 People
Radical Islamists, who claim to be linked to al-Qaeda, have killed more than 150 people in two days of violence.