Findings have outraged Muslim students’ leaders; they have dismissed the research as flawed.
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.
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MP Views Homosexuality as an Abomination
Iris Robinson said as a Christian she viewed homosexuality as an abomination.
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Egyptian Film Director Youssef Chahine Dies
Made his first film in 1950, tackled authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism.
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Pharmacists Urged to Tell Truth
Pharmacists are selling homeopathic remedies without saying they are no more effective than sugar pills.
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Smoking Ban Inspires New Religion
Café owners in Netherlands are joining religious movement ‘the One and Universal Smokers Church of God.’
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Are Non-violent Islamists the Solution?
Depends on whether you want to live in a caliphate or not.
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Alternative Therapy for Evil Homeopaths
Health shops were an obvious hiding place for genocidal maniacs. Remember all that talk of cleansing impurities?
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The Saudi Guide To Piety
You have to hate unbelievers. No excuses.
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Hudson Inst Report on Saudi Textbooks [pdf]
Unbelievers – everyone except Wahhabi Muslims – are hated ‘enemies.’
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Is Either Amis Any Good?
Neil Powell thinks the first is better than the second.
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Texas Board of Ed Fantasizes Biology
The new wheeze is to teach non-existent ‘weaknesses’ of evolutionary theory.
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Where Religion and Authority Mix
Conversion tends to be a no-no.
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Islam and Apostasy
The main traditions of jurisprudence in Islam draw on Hadiths to argue in support of death for apostates.
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Patriarchy Makes Men Crazy and Stupid
Sometimes men sulk until women give up the debate.
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Catholics to Pope: Lift Contraception Ban
Groups said Church’s ban has had catastrophic effects, particularly in prevention of AIDS.
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Happy 40th Birthday ‘Humanae Vitae’
Vatican refuses to change disastrous policy on contraception.
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Vatican Priest Calls Letter ‘Paid Propaganda’
Obscurantist nonsense about spiritual relation between husband and wife and fecundity.
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Priest’s Sudden Insight About Sexuality
‘The gift of love should be allowed to be fruitful. This simple idea lit up everything like lightning in a storm.’
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Jersey ‘Bone’ is Probably a Piece of Wood
Experts have told Jersey police that multiple tests show the fragment is not bone.
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Michael Shermer on a Habit of Human Cognition
We have evolved brains that pay attention to anecdotes because false positives are usually harmless.
