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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Migrant Workers Face Abuse in Middle East
Domestic workers still face abuse and exploitation because governments have failed to protect them.
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They Appeared Calm and Composed
How disgusting people can be…
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Islamist Terrorists Were Remorseless
‘They were the kind of people with no remorse – anybody and whoever came in front of them they fired.’
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Science as a Way of Knowing
We need both: sound basic knowledge and the ability to discuss complex ideas that have a global impact.
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Mark Vernon: Less Science, More Common Sense
‘Straightforward good judgment’ better than science or reason. But what is straightforward good judgment?
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Scientists Cannot Hide Away in Their Labs
‘It is vital that we help defend our rational, secular society against the rising tide of irrationalism and ignorance.’
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Mumbai
Some residents report in.
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FFRF Plans to Sue Rancho Cucamonga
For having a silly name. No, for taking ‘Imagine No Religion’ billboard down.
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Funding for Humanist Group Shock-Horror
Equality and Human Rights Commission gave a £35,000 grant to BHA; also funds many religious groups.
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Bad Neuroscience Journalism Awareness Month
How will the NY Times celebrate this year? With a study that reveals – sit down – that bullies like to bully.
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Ottawa Citizen on ‘Defamation of Religion’ Ban
‘Canada rejects the basic premise that religions have rights; human rights belong to human beings.’
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General Assembly Bans ‘Defamation of Religion’
Draft resolution tells all countries to alter their legal and constitutional systems to criminalize ‘defamation of religions.’
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Major Media on ‘Defamation of Religion’ Resolution
Deafening silence.
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The Religious Support Behind Proposition 8
Theists voted to revoke the legal right for gays to marry for theological reasons: God doesn’t like it.
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Bush Rushes to Gut Endangered Species Law
Spiteful hacks admit intent to complete changes quickly so that Obama can’t overturn them quickly.
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Is Obama the Antichrist?
Ooh, yes, could be, think some whack jobs in the Rapture Ready community.
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Pickled Politics on the Global Blasphemy Law
A proposal for the criminalisation of speech that would allow clerics to decide what is an ‘insult to religion.’
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UN Urges End to Abuses of Women
In Kenya half of women experience domestic violence; in Iraq women’s rights have eroded in all areas of life.
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New Laws Against Forced Marriage
Court injunctions will forbid families to take people abroad for marriage, seize passports, intimidate victims