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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Christianity’s War on Women
This is why AI is pro-abortion – the unnecessary deaths of thousands upon thousands of women.
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Are ‘Evangelical Atheists’ Too Outspoken?
‘What disturbs us is the preposterous outcry that atheists have gone too far in their criticism of religion.’
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Kian Tajbakhsh Released from Evin Prison
Iranian government accused Tajbakhsh of spying and trying to help organise a ‘velvet revolution.’
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Cardinal Wants Stem Cell Researchers Punished
Scientists who engage in stem cell research using human embryos should be excommunicated.
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Mo Says the Cartoon is Nothing Like Him
If people are going to commit blasphemy by portraying him, they should at least do a decent job of it.
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Which Century is This?
Advances in knowledge are not enough to dispel the primitive impulse to look skyward for signs and portents.
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Erdogan Urges End to Hijab Ban
The PM’s Islamist-rooted AK Party began drafting a new constitution after its election in July.
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Bangladesh Authorities Arrest Cartoonist
A Home Ministry statement said Arifur Rahman’s sketches ‘hurt the religious sentiments of the people.’
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Ernst Tugendhat on Certainty
The desire to be on sure ground is the relict of an authoritarian frame of mind.
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Saudi Women Challenge Driving Ban
Conservatives argue that if women are allowed to drive, they will be able to mix freely with men.
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Matthew Nisbet on Paul Kurtz on ‘New Atheism’
No mention of ‘the Atheist Noise Machine’ though.
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Gen-X humanism for the Passionately Confused
R. Joseph Hoffmann says Epstein has abused his links to Harvard ‘as a shortcut to the legitimacy he craves.’
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Nebraska State Senator Sues God
Lawsuit admits God goes by many aliases, names, titles and designations; also notes defendant is ‘Omnipresent’.
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Olivia Judson on Altruism
Examples of selflessness can be found throughout the animal kingdom; why?
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No Clash Between Science and Religion – ?
When scientific evidence contradicts religious claims, believers ‘rely on faith.’
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Reasons not to Fly Nepal Airlines
Officials sacrificed two goats to appease Hindu sky god after technical problems with Boeing 757.
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Doudou Diene on ‘Islamophobia’
Some countries called for international treaty to compel states to act against any form of defamation of religion.
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Swedish Cartoonist Says We Must Not Give In
Helena Benouda, head of the Muslim Council of Sweden, denounced the threats.
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Larry Moran on the AAAS and ‘Framing’
We believe it is wrong for scientists to alter their message in order to appease religious citizens.