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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Review of Frederick Crews’s Follies of the Wise
Reports on a zone where political preferences often determine fact claims.
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Polling Data on Science and Religion
Should we ‘frame’ the discussion or should we just tell the truth as we see it?
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‘Honour’ Killings in Iraqi Kurdistan
Many of the murders are disguised as suicides or accidents with burning oil.
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Sciency ‘Study’ of Sexiest Walk
‘We haven’t conducted the survey yet but we know what results we want to achieve.’ That’s the spirit!
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Memorial for Magdalen Women in Galway
Women of the Magdalen Laundry endured backbreaking work, grim living conditions, and ostracism.
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YouGov Poll on Religion
Nearly half the British think religion is harmful; more than half believe in God ‘or something.’
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Addled Visitors Challenge State Park Naturalists
After visit to Answers in Genesis’s Creation Museum they set the naturalists straight.
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No Let’s Not Make Science Easier
Athletes aim high; why shouldn’t students?
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EP Takes Up Pegah Emambakhsh Case
European Parliament will take up the case of the Iranian lesbian who risks expulsion from the UK to Iran.
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Credulity Toward ‘Mavericks’ Can be Dangerous
The recent upsurge in measles cases in Britain is a sad tribute to the climate of irrationality.
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Interview With A C Grayling
If political views cannot be protected from a cartoonist’s pen, why should religious views?
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Secular Turks Want a Truly Liberal Society
The danger is creeping Islamisation of social life, and a conservatism which puts pressure on secular Turks.
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‘Religious Viewpoint Anti-Discrimination Act’
‘Protection for religious expression in class assignments’ – including science class.
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HB 3678 is a Stealth Bill
A biology teacher may not penalize a student for giving answers that invoke non-scientific explanations.
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Age of the Inoffensive Bland Tame Newspaper
A cartoon due to appear in the Washington Post was pulled after it was deemed ‘offensive to Muslims.’
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Go On, Be Offended
Lola Granola finds a new spiritual path: radical Islamist, the new new thing.
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Sweden ‘Regrets’ Prophet Cartoon
The queue to grovel forms on the right.
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The Importance of Doubt
Certainty bad, doubt good, therefore one should have faith. Eh?
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Hitchens on Mother Teresa’s Doubts
The tribute that doubt paid to certainty: a strenuous effort to drown out the awful fear of ‘absence.’