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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Bankers Defend Their Bonuses
Say they work hard, ‘earn’ their bonuses; call disagreement ‘socialism.’
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The Logic of Bonuses for Bad Performance
The bonuses for 2008 were the sixth-largest on record and paid for by taxpayers. What’s the thinking here?
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Octuplets Not Really an Occasion for Rejoicing
‘The cost of taking care of multiples is huge. It’s not going to finish when the babies go home.’
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Drink Coffee, See Dead People
Ben Goldacre takes a closer look, finds the usual confusions; academics are sadly unblameless.
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No Reason to Worry About Thimerosal in Vacs
Researchers find no risk of thimerosal in vaccines causing brain problems.
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FGM in Denmark
A Danish woman has been convicted of having two of her daughters genitally mutilated.
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Forced Marriage in Syria
Muna, 15, dreads being married off to cousin who hits his mother with an iron bar.
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Abu Hamza Gets it Wrong Again
If a husband rapes a wife, she might call the cops, or ‘accept it with laughter and embarrassment.’
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Michelle Goldberg on Tragic Ted Haggard
By preaching against homosexuality and allying with anti-gay politicians, he caused real damage – and trapped himself.
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Women Gather to Cheer Female Submission
Signers affirm that women and men were designed to reflect God in ‘complementary and distinct ways.’
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Obama Calls Wall Street Bonuses Shameful
Rewarding themselves for trashing the economy and causing mass impoverishment not okay.
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John Patrick Diggins
‘He was the most philosophical-minded of the American historians,’ said the political historian Paul Berman.
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Mother of Octuplets Has Six Children Already
So she needed fertility treatments because…
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HRW on Crisis Without Limits in Zimbabwe
New 33-page report details the government’s responsibility for Zimbabwe’s humanitarian crisis.
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Godless Virtue
In secular Denmark and Sweden rates of violent crime are among the lowest on earth.
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Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy
Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.
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Obama Wants UN to Put Pressure on Mugabe
He is discussing a US-led diplomatic push to get tough new UN sanctions imposed against the regime.
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The Pope and the Irony Meter
Jesus and Mo ponder the Vatican on the arrogance of elected officials.
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Christopher Hitchens on Assassins of the Mind
Almost every historic battle for free expression has begun as a struggle over what is and is not ‘blasphemy.’