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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jonathan Derbyshire Profiles Amartya Sen
Sen taught Labour that the first question to ask about equality and inequality was ‘equality of what?’
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Alabama Freethought Association Meets
AFA attracts people from communities where strong religious norms treat atheism as unthinkable and despicable.
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Obama is a Furriner! From Hawaii!
Everbody kno this and it is being cuvvered up by the libruls. It is a skandle!
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To Serve God and Wal-Mart
New book chronicles Wal-Mart’s role in mainstreaming evangelical and free market values.
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Jesus and Mo Toast Ireland’s Blasphemy Law
The more seriously we take our beliefs, the bigger fools we feel we are being called.
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Possible ‘Honour’ Acid Attack in Leytonstone
Victim reportedly suspected of having an affair with a married Muslim woman; she has been told her life is in danger.
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Possible ‘Honour’ Killings of Four Women
Montreal couple and son suspected of killing three daughters and husband’s first wife.
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A Discussion of the Ethics of Book Reviewing
Alain de Botton makes an energetic contribution.
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Malaysian Court Sentences Woman to Whipping
She drank beer in a nightclub. Six strokes of the cane and a $1400 fine.
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Islam, Women, Double Standards, the West
The argument about chastity in Christianity and Islam is undermined by the difference in outcomes for women.
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The Six Lives of Malalai Joya
‘is the responsibility of our own people to fight for their rights, to achieve values like democracy and women’s rights.’
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150 Women to be Flogged for Having Sex
The men are acquitted, because they say they didn’t do it.
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Amnesty International Accuses Saudis of Torture
AI said said torture methods include ‘severe beatings with sticks, punching, suspension from the ceiling,’
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Fairies at the Bottom of the Schoolyard
A tour of Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophical Twilight Zone.
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Greg Fish on Mooney and Kirshenbaum
This is another case of picking on a minority rather than telling the truth.
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Creationist Film Company Tricks 3 Historians
Fathom Media was revealed to be a subsidiary of Creation Ministries International.
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Historians Misrepresented by Creationists
Phil Bell, CEO of Creationist Ministries UK, acknowledged that Fathom Media was established as a front company.
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Johann Hari on ‘Bruno’ and Missing the Point
Baron Cohen is taking a prejudiced position to its logical conclusion, in order to expose its absurdity.
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Steven Pinker to the Boston Globe
Shame on you for publishing two creationist op-eds in two years from the Discovery Institute.