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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Scientists Duke it Out With Catholic Church
Science Media Centre says Catholic Bishops’ statement on hybrids ‘is a radical violation of the truth.’
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Brandeis Professor Describes Racial Epithet
Student complains, administration orders sensitivity training, professor refuses.
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This University Is Named Brandeis, Remember?
Brandeis University is named for Justice Louis Brandeis, who was famed for his defense of free speech.
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Brandeis Faculty Senate Expressed Concern
The dispute has turned into a showdown over autonomy, academic freedom and governance procedures.
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Debating Holocaust Denial and David Irving
Mention one or both and out come the deniers.
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Colin McGinn on Point of Inquiry
McGinn explores skepticism and concerns about radical fallibilism and post-modern critiques of knowledge.
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Kabul Talks About the Kambaksh Case
‘You cannot criticise any principles which have been approved by sharia. It is the words of the Prophet.’
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Some Clerics in Kenya Are Adding to the Strife
Ethnic identity turns up in the church too.
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MySpace Deletes Atheist Group
Hackers broke into the Atheist and Agnostic Group and re-named it ‘Jesus is Love.’
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Nick Cohen Talks to Martin Amis
‘If you’re ideological you’ve got two people living with you: the cheer-leader and the commissar.’
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Pope on Science and Human Dignity
‘Dignity’ means total respect for the human being as a person from conception until natural death.
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A More Admiring View of the Pope
‘Human beings always stand beyond what can be scientifically seen or perceived.’ Pope can see it though.
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Cardinal Desmond Connell Went to Court
To prevent an Irish state inquiry from examining files concerned with clerical child abuse.
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Jesus Must Have Heard the Archbishop’s Speech
When those beliefs are held deeply and sincerely they become a part of you.
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Daniel Dennett on Blasphemy and Kambakhsh
Blasphemy is not a capital crime in any society worthy of respect.
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Death for ‘Disrespecting the Holy Koran’
By downloading a report saying claims that the Koran justifies oppression of women are misinterpretations.
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Sign the Indy’s Petition
Urge the UK Foreign Office to pressure the Afghan government to prevent the execution of Kambaksh.
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Malalai Joya on Afghanistan and Women’s Rights
The government is trying to use the country’s Islamic law as a tool with which to limit women’s rights.
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MySpace Don’t Allow No Atheists
Rupert Murdoch’s MySpace deleted 35,000 member atheist-agnostic group.