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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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CFI London: Science and Religion
Simon Singh, Mary Warnock, Jack Cohen, Stephen Law, 25th April, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square.
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Child ‘Witches’ in Nigeria
Unbearable to read.
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‘Faith-based’ Groups Fret About Future
Obama said he would not allow religious groups to get federal funding if they discriminate in hiring.
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Charles Hates Secularism and Science
‘Faith — any faith — is important in the crusade against the rising tide of secular materialism and scientific reductionism, both of which he detests.’
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Prop 8 Won and Religious Bigots Smell Victory
Godbotherers want to prevent Obama from expanding the rights of gays and lesbians.
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Ireland: Priests Abused Children in Bulk
The horrendous scale of clerical paedophilia in the Dublin archdiocese since 1940.
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Gene Robinson on Obama and Secularism
‘We don’t impose our religious values on the secular state because God said so.’
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Michael Walzer: Charisma Will Not be Enough
In these potentially ‘transformational’ moments, ginger groups on the left can make a difference.
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Catholic Church in Ireland Opposes Gay Rights
Cardinal said ‘marriage and the family are of public interest,’ so it is appropriate for the Church to meddle.
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Goldacre and Colquhoun Investigate Quack Degrees
This latest batch of course notes from TVU sound more like religious evangelism than science.
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Nutritional Fairy Tales from Thames Valley University
TVU is one of those shameful institutions that offer Bachelor of Science degrees in homeopathy.
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John McWhorter Says Skip the Glum Thoughts
‘Our job as serious people is to always contest. We must always Speak Truth to Power.’
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Alan Wolfe on an End to the Culture War
The culture war was a replay of earlier conflicts between black and white.
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Hitchens and Rabbi Wolpe Debate Religion
Is it good for the world?
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Denmark May Boycott Durban II
Unless OIC removes proposal to equate criticism of religion with racism, Denmark will not attend.
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Full Text of Obama’s Grant Park Speech
If this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.
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Prop 8 Passes in California
But Washington state voted to allow doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill people.
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U.S. Airstrike Reported to Hit Afghan Wedding
Afghan officials said the strike killed 40 civilians and wounded 28 others in Kandahar Province.
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International Reaction to Obama
America’s choice of such a skillful straddler of global identities cannot help but transform the nation’s image.