The idea must be to pretend we all agree on the basics.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ex-fundamentalist: God Does Hate Women
Religious circles just aren’t friendly to a woman who thinks herself an equal.
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Tom Stern Visits the Creation Museum
Some ‘science is like religion’ stuff but interesting all the same.
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Homeopathy is Cheap but Useless
British scientists ask WHO to condemn homeopathy for serious diseases such as HIV, TB and malaria.
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Prince Abusing His Power Again
Used his connections to block a building project that’s not to his taste.
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Caspar Melville on the Orthodoxy of Offence
Restitution via alternative epistemologies and patrolling the borders of acceptable speech.
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John Gray Lies Down With Dogs, Gets Up With
fleas. New atheism, intolerant, utopianism, scientism, bodies, Nazism, positivism, liberals, dogma, faith.
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Theistic Evolutionist Beats Hasty Retreat
Ken Miller’s first and only defense seems to be a denial of most of the implications of an interventionist deity.
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Coyne on Mooney and Testing the Supernatural
Clearly some claims about the supernatural can be tested (and rejected) by science.
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Jason Rosenhouse on Methodological Naturalism
The problem comes when you try to make MN into a rule that now and forever defines what science is.
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Night Waves on Whether God Hates Women
Madeleine Bunting calls DGHW strident and shrill, Humera Khan defends patriarchy. (c. 23 minutes in)
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NHS Spent £12 Million in 3 Years on Homeopathy
Dr Peter Fisher of the Royal London Homeopathic hospital said there is an issue of democracy.
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Cardinal Declined to Meet With Angry Survivors
We would have loved to, but we had to attend a meeting.
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Irish Abuse Victims March
‘It was as if you were inside prison and you don’t talk about it. You didn’t dare speak out against a religious order.’
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Bishops Met to Discuss Fallout from Ryan Report
Said it would be wrong to remove religious orders from the managing of schools.
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More Emetic ‘Faith’ Blather from Blair
‘Faith matters. Even if you are not of religious faith yourself.’ Heavy, dude.
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Dublin: Solidarity March for Abuse Victims
The scandal of the abuse was described as Ireland’s mini holocaust by several campaigners today.
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Alternative ‘Medicine’ Goes Mainstream
An underground medical system with millions of people using it on blind faith.
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Baptist Pastor Offers ‘Imprecatory Prayers’
Wiley Drake is asking the deity to kill Obama.
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Malaysia: Islamists v Sisters in Islam
Sisters in Islam should be investigated and declared ‘haram’ if it is found to be anti-Islam.
