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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Can Science and Religion Find Common Ground?
Many scholars believe rapprochement is possible and desirable. A few disagree, and EO Wilson is one of them.
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Spain’s Law of Historic Memory Condemns Franco
A preamble condemns the rule of a man who ruthlessly disposed of tens of thousands of opponents.
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Fadela Amara: a Feminist With Some Power
The head of Ni Putes ni Soumises is Sarkozy’s junior minister of urban policy.
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Steve Fuller’s Sociological Blinders
‘What we get is, roughly, postmodernism in the defense of old-time religion. A toxic combination.’
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Biker With Bad Heart Tries Reiki, Wins Races
He ‘defied medical advice’ to race. Good move.
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Ofcom Rejects Charge Against ‘Dispatches’
West Midlands Police said Channel 4distorted what the imams were saying; Ofcom said no.
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Archbish to Target Non-homophobic Bishops
Unity, schism, controversial, divisive, agenda, openly, compromise, pressure, boycotts.
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PBS Ombudsman: Reactions to ‘Judgment Day’
Hey it was so totally one-sided!
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ID Supporters Play the ‘That’s Religion’ Card
Saying evolution is not inherently anti-religious is religious, thus unconstitutional. Eh?
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Every Group is Sacred
Press Complaints Commission should ‘consider distorted inaccurate coverage of groups and communities.’
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Nick Cohen on a Mayoral Snow Job
Ware pointed out that all the criticisms of the MCB he broadcast came from liberal-minded British Muslims.
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Children Accused as Witches, Abused, Expelled
Massive number of children in Angola and Congo cast out, often as a rationale for not having to feed them.
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Belief in Interventionist God Not All That Rare
New atheists’ view of religion is far too crude, critics say; the criticism itself is out of touch with reality
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Tutu Rebukes Church for Attitudes to Gays
Why the obsession with sexuality when we have poverty, Aids and wars to worry about?
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Another Religion Journalist Loses Faith
Bates was turned off by the intolerance towards gays and the self-righteousness of Christians.
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The Religion Beat Demolishes Faith
What really surprised me was the mendacity and sheer nastiness with which the feuds were conducted.
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Jesus and Mo Protest Homeopathy Conference
Ridicule is a powerful weapon in the struggle against silly beliefs. Barmaid is speechless.
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Why Evidence-based Medicine Matters
Winterson tries to tell us that for some mystical reason the healing powers of homeopathic pills are special.
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Jeanette Winterson Hugs Homeopathy
‘Homeopathy seeks to understand everything we are, everything we do, as a web of relatedness.’