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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Obama hosts “Easter prayer breakfast”
So tough shit, people who think the state should stay out of religion.
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Surprise! MB candidate says sharia is the main goal
Oh, gee, didn’t they say they were going to be “moderate” or something?
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Pakistan will punish parents who don’t vax children for polio
The country is one of three – along with Afghanistan and Nigeria – that have failed to eradicate the virus.
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John Forrester reviews The Freud Files
“Is it convincing to claim that, shorn of the myth, the poverty or the plain ordinariness of psychoanalysis will be plain for all to see?”
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Simon Blackburn on dignity: its history and meaning
We all have a special dignity because we are all, alike, children of God and equal in His eyes. This is a divinely ordained, supernaturally guaranteed L’Oréal advertisement.
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L’Express: “The psychoanalysts fight back”
“We will resist, by continuing to strongly defend our beliefs. French psychiatry, which is admired throughout the world, must not be swept aside using evaluation criteria as the means.”
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Why are the French still blaming mothers for autism?
A controversial new film by French documentary filmmaker Sophie Robert reminds the world that in France these discredited and dangerous ideas still hold considerable sway.
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India: historian denied visa renewal
Peter Heehs is a scholar of Sri Aurobindo, but some devotees consider his book “blasphemous” and sued to get his visa canceled.
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In France autism is treated with psychoanalysis
“In France it is the psychiatrists – heavily influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis – who remain in charge. And they have shut themselves off from all the changes in our knowledge of autism.”
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Hire a bully to end bullying
He calls himself The Scary Guy, and his price tag can run as much as $6,500 a day.
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India: parents ditch their newborn daughter
The couple refused to accept the girl after accidentally being given the boy, who belongs to another couple, the hospital says.
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Activists persecuted for promoting women’s rights
Many British Asian women report hate mail and death threats for dealing with issues such as forced marriage and honour-based violence.
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Priest accidentally shows naughty slides at primary school
He projected the images onto a screen during a meeting for parents preparing for First Holy Communion. They were naughty pics of [gasp] men.
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Girl, boy killed in Afghan acid attack ‘over friendship’
No one has claimed the bodies, which are still in Ghazni hospital, police said.
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Andrew Copson on getting the bishops out
The arguments for keeping them in are all terrible.
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Anti-abortion campaigners target women at Brighton clinic
Virtually every woman, including staff, is accosted by opinionated protesters as she walks through the gates of the clinic.
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Eric MacDonald on the heathen’s manifesto
Baggini never really identifies any of these supposedly rude, self-centred, self-praising atheists, nor does he provide an example of the kind of thing that he seems to object to so much.
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US military hosts concert for atheist soldiers
“I’ve been an atheist pretty much my whole life, and where I was growing up in Texas, I didn’t know another atheist,” said Pfc. Lance Reed.
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Maryam Namazie’s talk at QED
Secularism is not an enemy of the religious; this is the propaganda of the religion industry which some secularists have bought into. Secularism is an enemy of religion in power.
