The consensus was possible because no one investigated the gruesome origins of the techniques.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ben Goldacre on Swine Flu and Hype
Media pundit-seekers wanted him to say it’s all hype. But it isn’t. But they wanted him to say it is.
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Tough Enough?
The claim of courage in the commission of deeply immoral acts is to be deplored and not admired.
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Kristof Asks: Is Rape Serious?
The refusal to test rape kits seems a throwback to antediluvian skepticism about rape as a traumatic crime.
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New Hampshire Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill
It is unclear whether the governor will sign the bill or veto it.
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Ireland Considers Blasphemous Libel Amendment
A new crime of blasphemous libel is to be proposed in an amendment to the Defamation Bill.
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Secular Summer Camp
But where are the camps for children who don’t want to go to camp?
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Review of Eagleton on ‘New’ Atheism
Calls it a fascinating, original, prickly work of philosophy.
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NY Court Rejects Men’s Studies Lawsuit
Plaintiff claimed Columbia was violating the first amendment because ‘feminism is a religion.’
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Judge Calls Claim Absurd
Feminism is no more a religion than physics, and at least the core of the complaint therefore is frivolous.
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Charles Abusing his Power Again
Some of the world’s leading architects say he is abusing his position to unfairly influence planning decisions.
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Charles v Rogers
PC has rarely, if ever, attacked the rape of small towns by inappropriate housing developments.
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Guardian to Charles: Shut Up or Step Down
Charles is circumventing the proper procedure by exploiting privilege he enjoys purely through fluke of birth.
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Ronald Aronson on the Rise of Atheism in America
The impressive increase among those willing to check atheist or agnostic is dramatic tribute to the success of the ‘new atheist’ writers.
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Steven Lukes on the Right to Judge Others
Who are we to apply our standards to the adherents of other moral and religious systems?
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Paul Krugman on Looking Forward not Backward
Laws aren’t supposed to be enforced only when convenient.
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Christina Lamb Returns to Herat
‘In the past three years, going back and forth to Afghanistan, I have watched the situation for women deteriorate.’
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Israeli Official: ‘Swine’ Flu Name is Offensive
Says the flu should be renamed ‘Mexican’ influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities.
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American Atheists Exiting the Closet at Last
It worked for the gay rights movement, so why not for the unbelievers?
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Israeli Oranges for Sale in Iran Shock-horror
Sinister Jaffa oranges arrived in boxes marked as Chinese…but surely that’s a ploy…