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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Religious Riots Spread in Orissa
Hindu groups accuse Xians of forced conversion, Xians say lower-caste Hindus convert willingly to escape caste system.
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Jerry Coyne and Matthew Cobb Letter to ‘Nature’
Can science bring about ‘advances in theological thinking’? Or is atheism the only advance available.
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Religious Group Causes Mumps Outbreak in BC
BC health official says mumps outbreak began with Fraser Valley religious group that shuns immunization.
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Candidates Spurn Science Debate
Forum on ‘faith,’ you bet; forum on science, no thanks. Great priorities.
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‘Just do it, just do it,’ he said
A Shia Muslim was convicted of child cruelty after he forced two boys to flog themselves during a ritual.
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Atheists Are the Last Outgroup
The Democratic Convention is all ‘faith’ all the time. Dissenters are requested to leave.
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The Miscalculation of Small Nations
Fred Halliday notes that ‘the flaws of nationalism can match or exceed those of religion.’
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Ali Eteraz on Pakistan’s Political Soap Opera
The Taliban are not resistance fighters standing up to a dictatorship; they are cold-blooded serial killers.
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Pankaj Mishra on Kashmir
In 2005 MSF found that Muslim women in Kashmir, prey to the Indian troops, suffered pervasive sexual violence.
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Voices of Disbelief
Russell Blackford says it will be a strong book.
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India: Mob Torches Orphanage, Killing Woman
The mob torched the orphanage in rising religious violence sparked by the killing of a Hindu leader.
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The Ecstasy of Communication
It is possible to minimize this distracted state…by Googling ‘how to develop iron self-discipline.’
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How to Teach Evolution to Evangelicals
Carefully.
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PZ on Teaching Evolution Carefully
Always strain to allow students to accommodate science to their personal superstitions.
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Susan Neiman on Idealism and Mockery
Obama’s speech gave Europeans a chance to hear the difference between optimism and idealism.
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Catholic Primate of All Ireland Frets About EU
It’s too secular; there’s a loss of Christian values; there’s unease in the hearts of Christians.
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Saudi Girl, 8, Seeks Divorce From Man, 58
Fathers sell daughters for lotsa money.
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The Costs of Marital Rape in Southern Africa
Victims of domestic violence, including marital rape, are at increased risk of HIV infection.
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Karzai Pardons Men Convicted of Gang Rape
Armed men took Islamuddin; his mother confronted them; they raped her and cut her with bayonet.