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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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An Atheist Writes a Commentary on the Bible
Even if the principles of morality were in need of foundations, the Bible would be too nefarious for the purpose.
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Paween Mushtakhel in Hiding as Taleban Return
Her husband was murdered after defying months of phone warnings to stop his wife appearing on television.
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Cherie Blair Says Christians Are Marginalized
Also notes that women are marginalized by Christianity. She seems a tad confused.
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Forced Religion in the US Military
Federal lawsuit accuses military of ignoring laws and policies banning mandatory religious practices.
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CIA Destroyed 92 Interrogation Tapes
As Congress and the courts were intensifying scrutiny of CIA’s detention and interrogation program.
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Japan Tobacco Offers Perks to Researchers
Fun evening for parliamentary aides as legislation to ban the display of cigarettes is before MPs.
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Julian Barnes on Eric Blair
The national Orwell is that of plain writing and moral clarity, but things are never so simple.
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Philosophers Hate an Untenable Dualism
Is there a principled difference between memories and notebook entries?
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Bobby Jindal the Exorcist
Hey, he’s governor of Louisiana, a state full of charismatic Christians and religious hysterics.
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Ben Goldacre on Datamining for Terrorists
Even with the most brilliantly accurate test imaginable, your risk of false positives increases to unworkably high levels.
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Obama Admin Says No to Durban II
The document being negotiated has gone from bad to worse, and the current text is not salvageable.
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US Joins Canada in Boycotting Durban II
Proposed drafts include assaults on free speech under the guise of defending religions from ‘defamation.’
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Amartya Sen on the UDHR
The UD took the firm view that human rights do not depend on legislation for recognition.
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Williamson ‘Apologizes’ But Not Really
‘The one thing he doesn’t say, and the main thing, is that the Holocaust occurred, that it is not a lie.’
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David Colquhoun on the Opposite of Science
As soon as you apply science to homeopathy or naturopathy, the whole subject vanishes in a puff of smoke.
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Recruiting for Jesus Camp
Church sends ‘youth leaders’ into schools to flatter children into attending meetings.
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Jesus and Mo on the Westboro Baptist Church
They’re right, but they’re so tacky.
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Questions of Truth
The god of the gaps was grandfathered in; discuss.
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Nigel Warburton on God and the Buses
There probably isn’t, there definitely is; the epistemology of advertising.
