A judiciary official says tribunals will process hundreds of ‘rioters’ and ‘thugs’ caught in security sweeps.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Defectors Spill the Beans About Scientology
Physical violence permeated the international management team. Staffers are made to ‘confess sins.’
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Jean Kazez on Metaphors and Book Titles
God: A Biography – what, God was born in Brooklyn? Walking with God – what’s next, going to the movies with God?
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The Tension Between Theocracy and Democracy
God’s will and the people’s wants are not always compatible.
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The Philosophy of Jokes
What is it to find something funny? What kind of thing is humour? How do we explain it?
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C of E Pitching a Fit at the Beeb
Wants to know why the BBC is not a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anglican church.
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Jonathan Derbyshire: How the Left Lost its Language
We ought to return to the arguments over the weight we accord liberty and equality.
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Mick Hume on Liberty in the Age of Terror
Chastises Grayling for looking to written constitutions to protect rights.
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The God-given Right to Bad-mouth Queers
The bill could ban Christians voicing traditional views on sexuality! Except that it couldn’t.
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Witchcraft Not Compatible With Catholicism
They wear such funny clothes, and there are all those candles and incantations – it just won’t do.
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Iran’s Rural Vote and Election Fraud
Is Ahmadinejad’s support base rural? Not if Bagh-e Iman is representative.
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Ben Goldacre Looks at the Numbers
He asked what steps they took to notify journalists of their error, which exaggerated their findings by a factor of ten.
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This Is Ben Goldacre’s Column on Drugs
In areas of political conflict people behave badly with evidence, so the war on drugs is reliably entertaining.
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Justice Eady Strikes Again
Rules that bloggers have no right to remain anonymous.
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Jesus and Mo on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Incompetent people aren’t competent to see that they are incompetent.
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Michael Ruse Drops Jerry Coyne a Line
‘I don’t know who does more damage, you and your kind or Phillip Johnson and his kind.’
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Michael Ruse at the Creation Museum
He has an epiphany, because he is not one of those horrid new atheists.
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Sympathy for the Snookered
None for people who know better.
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Islamist Meeting Ejected Over Sex Segregation
Ordered to leave Conway Hall when it emerged that Al-Muhajiroun were not letting women into the main hall.
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Jerry Coyne on Science v Theism
Offering a god of the gaps promotes public confusion about what science does and does not tell us about the universe.