‘It offended their sensibilities, because the whole course was about problematizing science and technology.’
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Priya Venkatesan Explains About Science
Literary theorist goes to work in a lab, finds that science is science. World tilts on axis.
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Katha Pollitt on Polygynists and the Pope
The pope wants women to be trapped in marriage with 15 children just as the FLDSers do.
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Lecturer Considers Suing Her Students
They disagreed with her. Surely that’s illegal?
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Does science make belief in God obsolete?
Templeton foundation asks; Pinker, Hoodbhoy, Midgley, Hitchens, others answer.
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Review of Mary Lefkowitz’s ‘History Lesson’
Teachers owe it to themselves and their students to get as close as possible to the truth.
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There is no Shortage of Godbothering Books
They far outnumber the putative flood of atheist books. Carlin Romano reads a few.
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Myths About Vaccines and Autism
Proponents maintain their belief largely through the generous application of conspiracy thinking.
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So We Should Prefer a Dim Bulb?
Is Obama called an elitist because he is comfortable with and in command of nuanced ideas?
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Violent Abduction: How Romantic
‘If a woman can tell her children that their father kidnapped her, it’s a great love story.’ Right.
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UCL Withdraws Fellowship from Holocaust Denier
‘Let us hope the schoolchildren visitors are properly taught about the elegant swimming-pool at Auschwitz…’
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UCL Statement on Nicholas Kollerstrom
He’s a Fellow in Science and Technology Studies.
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Bradford ‘Apostates’ Get Death Threats
Sher Azam, of Bradford Council for Mosques, said ‘Islam teaches us respect, tolerance and understanding.’
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Iraqi Women Subjugated Via Murder
‘Honour killings are not actually a crime in the eyes of the government,’ said Houzan Mahmoud.
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Bristol City Council Wracked with Confusion
There’s cohesion, then there’s homophobic bullying, then there’s community, then there’s inclusive…
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The Folly of GM-phobia
With the Earth’s population soaring, it will be the poor who go hungry, not the eco-warriors destroying modified crops.
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Hell for Women in Iraq
Women are harassed if they appear in the streets, educational institutions, or work places.
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Simon Blackburn on Eight Myths
What is usually known as culture is a set of symbols enabling people on the inside to recognise and dislike those on the outside.
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Pamela Bone
Bone wrote recently on what she saw as the betrayal by Western feminists of their Muslim sisters.
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Pamela Bone 1940-2008
She was fearless on matters of politics, human rights, justice and religion
