Madeleine Bunting goes all sciencey.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Charities Urge MPs to Support Research Bill
Cancer Research, British Heart Foundation among more than 200 charities urging support.
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News From Nasim Fekrat in Afghanistan
Situation of women terrible. No free media in Afghanistan. Basir Ahang safe in Italy.
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Winston Disputes Cardinal on Embryo Research
Winston, an authority on human reproductive health, said the cardinal was deliberately misleading the public.
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Bishop’s ‘Frankenstein’ Attack Smacks of Ignorance
‘The Bill is not about creating monsters or mocking the sanctity of human life,’ says Colin Blakemore.
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‘Witch’ Exiled From London to Kinshasa
When I ask her to tell me why her father and step-mother accused her of witchcraft, she does not reply.
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Joe Dunckley on the Church’s Embryology
Fertilised eggs can think and feel, recite their twelve times tables, and lead missions into pagan lands, right?
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Catholics Continue to Fight Medical Research
‘Catholics will want to vote according to their conscience’ to protect horrible diseases.
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Intelligent Design Movie Is Not for Heathens
Russell Blackford on the curious incident at the Mall of America.
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Catholics Fuss Over Embryo Research Bill
Talk of ‘sacredness of human life, its meaning and purpose’; no talk of horrible diseases.
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Cardinal O’Brien Talks Nonsense
‘This bill represents a monstrous attack on human rights, human dignity and human life.’
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Landover Baptist Church Weighs In
‘Shocking information that PZ Meyers trophy wife (paid for by the tax payers of state of Minnesota)…’
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Report Finds Discrimination in Iran’s Textbooks
Describe Iran’s political order as ‘sacred’ and warn that criticism constitutes opposition to divine will.
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Woman’s Suit Against Seminary Dismissed
Baptist Seminary guys believe women are biblically forbidden to teach men, so firing woman is okay.
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NY Times on ‘Expelled’ Expulsion
Two evolutionary biologists tried to go to the movies at the Mall of America in Minneapolis Thursday evening.
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Flemming Rose: bin Laden Wants My Blood
What kind of civilization are we if we refrain from mocking and ridiculing bin Laden and his followers?
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Vatican Says Pope is no Cartoon Fan
The pope has condemned the cartoons several times and stressed that ‘religion must be respected.’
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Happy Cruciversary, Jesus
Mo bakes Jesus a cake. Jesus is sulky.
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Moses Confirms: He Was on Drugs
Jesus and Mo urge the benefits of the natural high.
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Ireland: Church Accused of Abuse of Power
Turning a blind eye to corruption among the elite while concentrating on the minor infractions of the poor.