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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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NPR on Human Rights in Iran
NPR talks to Hadi Ghaemi and Roya Boroumand.
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Abortion Caused Australian Bushfires
Pentecostal pastor says he must tell people the truth, not what they want to hear.
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Iran: Journalists Sentenced to Prison, Floggings
Despite the head of the judiciary’s admission that they had been tortured into confessing.
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Bad Ideas Dept: Homeopaths without Borders
Their goal is to transfer homeopathy to countries where public health care is sub-standard.
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Florida Legislator to Introduce Flat Earth Bill
No, a bill to require teaching of evolution to be balanced with discussion of ID.
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Times: Andrew Wakefied Fixed Data on Autism
Medical documents and interviews have established that AW manipulated patients’ data.
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Steiner Waldorf Schools and ‘Anthroposophy’
The pseudo religion/science at the heart of Steiner education is a ‘spiritual’ form of racism.
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Theos Report Doesn’t ‘Reclaim’ Darwin
Instead it talks the usual nonsense about selfishness. Ho hum.
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Roger Scruton on Forgiveness and Irony
Forgiveness and irony underlie our conception of citizenship as founded in consent.
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Texas: Teacher Suspended for Being Atheist
And a libbrul. History teacher for 30 years has now resigned.
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Richard Mullens Meets the Texas Taliban
He was on a list of people the board wanted to fire because a board member believed he was an atheist and a liberal.
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AU Dismayed But Not Giving Up
There must be an end to religious discrimination and proselytism in ‘faith-based’ programs funded by the taxpayer.
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Christopher Booker Sets Darwin Straight
Darwin wrong, made leap of faith regardless of the evidence, whatgoodishalfaneye.
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Vatican and Berlusconi Defy Court Ruling
Eluana Englaro, despite 17 year coma, is ‘in the condition to have babies,’ says Berlusconi.
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Taliban Says It Has Beheaded Polish Hostage
Taliban boss said the engineer was killed after govt refused to release any member of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.
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Giles Fraser Wishes Atheists Would Get a Life
Instead of always following believers around demanding to join in.
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Zentangle is a Miracle
It has benefits for self-esteem, panic attacks, relaxation, insomnia, stretching, anger management…
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Nightwaves on The Satanic Verses
Kenan Malik points out: it’s a myth that all Muslims were offended by Rushdie’s novel.
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New Bus Ads: There Is a God There Is There Is
Christian Party ad says ‘There definitely is a God’; does not say how Christian Party knows that.