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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Another Turk on Trial for Saying Something
Singer charged with attempting to turn the public against military service, contrary to Article 318.
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Edzard Ernst: Homeopathy Putting Lives at Risk
World’s only professor of complementary med says homoeopathic treatments must be more regulated.
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Steven Pinker Interviwed
What might feel like freewill from the inside is not some mysterious violation of the laws of physics.
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Judith Shapiro on Anti-intellectualism
Many who advocate teaching creationism do so in the name of providing a ‘balanced’ curriculum.
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Zimbabwe: Statement on Violence and Torture
Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights reports dramatic escalation in organised violence and torture.
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Damages for ‘Injury to Feelings’
Muslim woman awarded £4,000 after owner of a hair salon refused to employ her because she wears hijab.
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Iran Police Close Hairdressers, Clothes Shops
Police said 32 clothes shops and hairdressers in Tehran were shut down so far.
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Another ‘Right to Wear Symbol of Faith’ Fight
Bangle joins niqab, jilbab, cross.
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Health Report from Zimbabwe
Most of these fractures will have been sustained in attempts to defend the face and upper body from violent blows with a weapon such as a heavy stick or iron bar.
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BC Tribunal Hears Complaint Against Maclean’s
Nothing wrong with Steyn expressing his view if he does not cross the line with respect to Section 7-1.
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Liveblogging the BC Human Rights Trial
“Those hauled before the human rights tribunal howl about censorship.” Well, yes. It’s not crying wolf if the wolf is in fact at your throat…
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Margaret Talbot on Irene Pepperberg and Alex
In the past decade, dozens of studies have buttressed Pepperberg’s claims about avian intelligence.
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Pitching a Huge Fit About Nothing
Conservative Christians angry that a gay couple used religious ritual at civil service.
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C of E in Meltdown Over Women and Gays
No women! No gays! No women! Arrgh!
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Once the Whack-a-thought Police Get Going
If B.C.’s kangaroo court declares Steyn guilty, we might see two human rights bodies in cosmic collision.
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Why is BC Prosecuting Mark Steyn?
Steyn is effectively being tried, by a quasi-judicial panel in Vancouver, for insulting Islam.
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Free Speech is No Excuse
Freedom of speech is not absolute, therefore, when in doubt, prosecute.
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BC Human Rights Code
BC code doesn’t allow respondents to defend themselves by arguing that what was published was true.
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Pakistan Asks EU to Do Better
Says otherwise more attacks on EU diplomatic missions abroad could not be ruled out.