The revolution is proceeding with breathtaking impatience; it is Jacobin in its disdain for tradition and precedent.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Battle of Ideas: The Resurrection of Religion
Stephen Law, Frank Furedi, Ruth Gledhill. October 27, Upper Gilbenkian Theatre, the RCA, London.
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Stephen Law on Galileo and Bruno
They were hauled before the Inquisition for their scientific views as well as their theological views.
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Pope Demands Respect for Sunday
Tuesday and Thursday are offended, Wednesday is an apostate, Monday has become a Mormon.
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Swedish PM Meets With Muslim Ambassadors
‘Causing offence does not belong to the concept of freedom of speech,’ said Iran’s ambassador.
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Parody Dawkins Review on the Valve
Dawkins cannot afford to entertain the possibility that Fascism fills a deep-seated need in people.
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Celibate Priest Urges More Breeding
Pope warns Europe not to ’embrace’ abortion, urges it to embrace Xianity.
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Scott McLemee on The Last Intellectuals
The zeitgeist overlooked features of Russell Jacoby’s argument that did not fit into a simplified history.
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Ben Goldacre on Conflict of Interest
It is extremely common for journalists to take money from pharmaceutical companies.
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Iraq Freezes Funds of Women’s Rights Group
The Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq shelters women who are threatened by honor killing.
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Bible Study More Important Than Doing the Job
Says head of U.S. government agency that pays benefits to disabled veterans.
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Secular Group Sues Round Rock School District
Americans United for Separation of Church and State: allowing a majority vote on prayer violates federal law.
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More Kack from Madeleine Bunting
Dawkins doesn’t understand myth, he’s arrogant, Cornwell’s book is a powerful riposte.
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Excerpt from Grayling’s Towards the Light
A Western citizen is a possessor of rights and opportunities that only an aristocrat could hope for in the past.
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Primates Expect Others to Act Rationally
A new study shows that non-human primates infer others’ intentions in a sophisticated way.
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Man Jailed for Taking Woman to Hospital
His neighbor was ill, he helped her, so he was accused by religious police of immoral behaviour.
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Two Women Beheaded in Pakistan
A note found on the bodies said ‘We have started doing this to end obscenity in the area.’
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Dawkins Meets (and Reviews) Hitchens
America is far from the know-nothing theocracy that two terms of Bush had led us to fear.
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Dawkins Reads John Cornwell
Cornwell does some annoyingly creative reading of Dawkins.