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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Blessed Be the Atheists
They talk about god so theists talk about god so it’s all good hooray.
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Temper Inflexible Religion with Flexible Politics
One need not be a member of Hamas to believe that religion speaks in absolutes.
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Serious Journalism and British Libel Law
Expensive corporate lawsuits will discourage investigations of complex financial affairs..
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A See-no-gene Perspective is Obsolete
It is possible to identify sociology departments in which gene-environment interactions amount to a subfield.
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Dancer Claims ‘Healer’ Cured Mystery Illness
Michael Flatley got his life energy rebalanced, and rose from his chair and walked.
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Sense About Science Launches Detox Dossier
‘Detox’ has no meaning outside of the clinical treatment for drug addiction or poisoning.
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Madoff and the Epistemology of Investment
It it wasn’t hard to see that the profits were too good to be true, yet the SEC turned a blind eye.
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Scientists Dismiss ‘Detox Myth’
Producers and retailers admit they simply renamed processes like cleaning or brushing as detox.
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Sue Blackmore on Thought for the Day
Atheists have thoughts too, but they are banned from Thought for the Day.
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Ben Goldacre, Today, Detox Nonsense
‘I read a quote. She laughed and said I was mistaken.’ But he wasn’t.
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Happy New Year, But Nothing Has Changed
People continue to have stupid ideas, newspapers continue to laud them, and lives will be lost.
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Denialism and the Death of Christine Maggiore
How do AIDS denialists explain the death of Christine Maggiore? Lots of ways.
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Christine Maggiore and the Price of Skepticism
Determined to reject scientific wisdom, Maggiore breast-fed her daughter, who died at age 3.
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BSLS: The Two Cultures in Question
24 January: Gillian Beer, Ben Goldacre, Anthony Grayling, Jonathan Miller, Alan Sokal.
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The Edge Question 2009
Nicholas Humphrey, Ian McEwan, Michael Shermer, the Dysons, Irene Pepperberg, many more.
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Narendra Nayak’s Rationalism Tour of India
The locals are proud of their proponent of the supernatural and proclaim tall claims of their powers.
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Ken Miller on the Discovery Institute
More than three years after Kitzmiller v. Dover, DI spokesman Casey Luskin is still trying to win the case.
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Producer Defends ‘Expelled’
Says ‘Darwinism’ leads to death camps because it does not accept ‘the sanctity of life.’
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The Guardian Chats with A C Grayling
Belief in the tooth fairy but not God is the beginning of wisdom: the tooth fairy might pay up.