And sexist vocabulary never left the New York Times, apparently.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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 How to Get the Figures Wrong
It’s a tricky process, and then at the end you still have to inflate at will.
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The Chimpworks Z-1000 Taurean Stool Detector
Q-zone crystal quantum z-rays in its homeopathically-advised dodecahedron-shaped water molecule engine.
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Libraries Should Put ‘Holy Books’ on Top Shelf
‘No offence is caused, as the scriptures of all the major faiths are given respect in this way, but none is higher than any other.’
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Women Fought Fundamentalism Before the Fatwa
Women are the first to feel the chill of religious fundamentalism when their freedoms begin to atrophy.
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Vatican Attempts to Censor ‘Blasphemy’
An Israeli comedian jokes about Jesus, Vat lodges a formal complaint with Israeli government.
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Jesus and Mo on Creationism
Of course Jesus does not believe the earth is six thousand years old.
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Ben Goldacre on Pay to Play
In an ideal world, all drugs research would be commercially separate from manufacturing and retail.
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Goldacre on the Dangers of an Ill-informed Media
This is a ‘debate’ where one person asking stupid questions has complete control over the microphones.
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Free Speech or Freedom to Hurt?
‘If playing with people’s beliefs and trampling on all that they hold sacred is freedom, then we’re better off without it.’
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Pakistan: 32 Bullets in Murdered Reporter
Hundreds of journalists protested the murder of Musa Khan Khel in Swat.
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Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists Protests
‘A journalist has become the first victim after the peace deal in Swat, which is most alarming.’
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Mental Torture and Bullying in an Indian Convent
‘There are many nuns undergoing ill-treatment from the order, but they are afraid of challenging it.’
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A C Grayling on Secularist Students
‘This critical, evidence-based, enquiring mindset also thinks afresh about the good for human lives and societies.’
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Atheism is on the March
‘Public statements of non-belief are treated as threatening, an affront to the religious, while the reverse is not true.’
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Andrew Brown Notes That Differences Matter
The difference between a theocracy and a secular state with bits of religious ornament is important.
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Dawkins, Dennett, Coyne, Myers to New Scientist
What on earth were you thinking when you produced a garish cover proclaiming that ‘Darwin was wrong’?
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HRW on Censhorship and Repression in Sudan
It is unsafe to criticize the Khartoum government or call for justice for victims of horrific crimes in Darfur.
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More Vatican Wisdom on ‘Sin’
How each sex scores on ‘the seven deadly sins.’ Does the Vatican have nothing better to do?
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UK Home Secretary Bans Westboro Preachers
Peter Tatchell disagrees with the decision to ban the Phelpses and Geert Wilders
