She plans to hire a voice coach.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Imprisoned by Light Sensors
‘Religious code’ bans electricity on the Sabbath, so they are helpless. It’s tragic.
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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.
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Russell Blackford: There is Only One World
There is no good reason to think a ‘transcendent world’ exists, or that religion can inform us about one.
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Bunting on the Woman Who Hates God
‘The kind of strident atheism which Benson epitomises intrigues me. It’s driven by a curious intensity…’
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It’s Not Religion, I Tell You!
Just because people say it’s religion when they kill you, that doesn’t make it so!
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Chiropractors Told to Take Down Their Websites
Because of a ‘witch hunt against chiropractors…if you have a website, take it down NOW.’
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Toadying and Sycophancy
The greatest exponent of alternative medicine is the future monarch. A little royal patronage can be powerful.
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Improbable Science on Charles’s Foundation
A one-sided affair devoted to misrepresentation of evidence and the promotion of magic medicine.
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Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
PZ Myers reviews a new book on the subject.
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Homeopathy Awareness Week
Homeopaths have been promoting homeopathic sugar pills to treat or prevent malaria and HIV in Africa.
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Homeopathy Awareness: Gloria Thomas
Judge ruled most of the pictures cannot be made public, because they are too horrible.
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Nick Cohen on the Holocaust Museum Killer
He hated Bill O’Reilly of Fox News and neocons as much as the New York Times and Obama.
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The Real ‘Islamophobia’
The explosion rocked the complex, which includes a mosque, library, classrooms, offices and student accommodation.
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Does Religion Have Special Epistemic Authority?
Are there questions that science can’t answer while religion can? Well, what do you mean by ‘answer’?
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Russell Blackford on NOMA
Neither science nor religion can decide what the ultimate point of morality should be.
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All Serious Historians Line Up
To agree with James Hallam on science and religion.
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Who Goes to a Creationist Museum?
No prizes for the answer.
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Another Uppity Woman on God v Women
She never understood why her kick-ass grandmother accepted Greek Orthodox dogma about women being second class humans.
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Cardinal Uninspired by Blair Faith Foundation
Blair thinks religious ‘leaders’ should rethink gay rights, but Catholic thinking is ‘rather different.’ Yes.