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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Bible-verses on Defense Memos Inappropriate?
Nah. Bush and Rummy ‘appreciated’ them, and that’s the important thing.
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Russell Blackford on Fish on God
While chains of inference cannot be justified all the way down to all comers, it does not follow that none are better than others.
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Massimo Pigliucci on Fish on Epistemology
Fish seems to think that once one has refuted the naive logical positivist view, all knowledge has been shown to be a matter of faith.
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How the Light Gets In, Hay, May 22-31
Philosophy and music festival: Blackburn, Grayling, Malik, Neiman, Bauman, more.
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Ed Brandon Reviews Galileo Goes to Jail
The important issues on the borders of science and religion are matters of what supports X rather than Y.
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Daniel Hauser Fails to Appear at Court Hearing
District Judge John Rodenberg has issued an arrest warrant for Hauser’s mother; the two are missing.
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Warrant Issued for Mother of Daniel Hauser
The father testified that he doesn’t know the whereabouts of his son and his wife.
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Orac on the Hauser Case
It will take time for CPS to find them. Meanwhile, his tumors are growing.
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Peter Tatchell Arrested at Gay March in Moscow
Mayor has called gays ‘Satanists’; authorities said the march was banned to prevent ‘moral degradation.’
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Shuttle in Silhouette During Solar Transit
That’s some snap.
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Fish Offers More God Talk
‘The religions I know are about nothing but doubt and dissent.’
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Russell Blackford on the Arrest of Peter Tatchell
Tatchell puts his body on the line for his causes, when that’s what it means to stand up to authority in the name of human rights.
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The Administration Can’t ‘Just Keep Walking’
A major cover-up of corruption took place at the Bush Pentagon just six days before Bush left office.
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Brian Leiter Asks a Question
Does the NY Times not realize that Stanley Fish is philosophically incompetent?
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Martin in the Margins on Fish on God
The anti-rational evasions of Eagleton and Fish discredit the very cause they claim to defend.
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‘Evidence’: Scientific Word or Legal One?
‘Bogus’ is a word with many appealing applications when commenting on business and politics.
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Wendy Grossman on the Terrible Judgment
Libel law balks responsible reporting; the public is deprived of knowledge they need to make informed decisions.
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Can Reform Save Saudi Arabia?
Wahhabism is, in its essentials, the totalitarian creed espoused by Osama Bin Laden to justify his murderous jihad.
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Other Inmates of Evin Prison
The allegations against the Baha’is are as nonsensical as they are unjust.