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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Richard John Neuhaus 1936-2009
The conservative Catholic theologian helped build an influential coalition of right-wing Protestants and Catholics.
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Deepak Chopra is Cross With Steve Salerno
He and Weil are ‘highly trained MDs with almost 40 years of clinical-experience’ so shut up.
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Choprabollocks
Integrative health care, high-tech medicine, blind allegiance, mainstream, vast field, empower, right to choose.
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NY Times Transcript of Caroline Kennedy Interview
Says ‘you know’ 144 times. Substance noticeably absent.
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2008 Counterknowledge Prize Goes to…
The person or institution that has done most to spread bogus science or history: Prince Charles wins.
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Unprecedented Rise in Measles
The Health Protection Agency says too few children are receiving both doses of the MMR vaccination.
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Unhealing Touch
Feeling a tad listless? Perhaps your DNA is insufficiently activated.
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Mississippi Considers Antievolution Bill
Every textbook that discusses evolution would include a disclaimer calling evolution ‘a controversial theory.’
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Maggiore’s Cause of Death Does Not Matter
Regardless of why she died, her denialism has caused much harm.
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Living and Dying with HIV/AIDS Denialism
HIV/AIDS denialism is not ‘skepticism’ or ‘rethinking’ any more than creationism is a ‘skepticism’ of evolution.
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Quackometer Best Books of 2008
Ben Goldacre, Richard Wilson, Rose Shapiro, Damian Thompson, Edzard Ernst.
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Review: Richard Wilson’s Don’t Get Fooled Again
Wilson explains the psychology of pseudoscience and other flawed thinking.
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Jesus and Mo Take a Nice Detox Bath
Then they stimulate their lymphatic systems with a detox brush. Mmmmm.
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Telegraph Misquotes Scientist, Refuses to Correct
Hey, who’s the expert here, some pesky scientist or a newspaper editor?
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AI Appeals for Release of Mukoko and Takawira
Mukoko is being held at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
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Zimbabwe Court Rules Against Rights Activists
Defence lawyers had argued that the activists had been abducted, not legally arrested.
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Zimbabwe Court Orders Probe of Alleged Torture
Lawyers on Wednesday told the court that the activists were ‘severely tortured’ by police.
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WHO Says Zimbabwe Cholera Deaths Over 1700
The World Health Organisation is reporting over 1,700 deaths out of more than 34,000 cholera cases.
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Philippe Sands on a Legacy of Torture
Torture is an international crime, which any nation can prosecute.