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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘Barefoot Doctor’ Comments on Dawkins
The Barefoot Doctor is an ‘expert’ on holistic ‘medicine.’ He says Dawkins is old-fashioned.
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Naipaul’s Cold Gaze not Acceptable in Polite Circles
‘What happens when people believe their principles are higher than reality.’
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Postmodern Science
Uncomfortable scientific findings are ‘deconstructed’ so as to reinterpret them as desired.
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Sue Blackmore on Benjamin Libet
Philosophers and scientists have argued that free will must be an illusion. Libet found a way to test it.
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Peter Tatchell on Nigeria’s Anti-gay Witch-hunt
There are vociferous local demands for the men to be stoned to death.
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Alleged Gays Stoned in Nigeria
The stoning youths felt bitter that instead of being executed the suspects were granted bail.
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Hitchens Does a Miraculous Book Tour
At the airport, strangers approach to say, ‘Thanks for coming to take on the theocrats.’
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H E Baber on the Aesthetics of Toughness
Lots of liberals just don’t understand that aesthetic preference for hard, tough, aggressive and angular.
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Nelson Mandela Statue Unveiled
Though this statue is of one man, it should symbolise all of those who have resisted oppression.
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Religious ‘Rules’ Trump All, Irish Police Told
‘The turban is a vital part of the rules of the Sikh religion,’ said MP.
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‘God is Bigger Than Amnesty International’
US Bishops’ Conference said promoting access to abortion undermines AI’s moral credibility.
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Abuse Plagues Muslim Women in Germany
There is a new willingness to discuss forced marriage and spousal violence against women.
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Arrests in Politkovskaya Murder
Her writing was often polemical, fervent in support of human rights and the rule of law.
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Secular Schools: Children of the Enlightenment
The pedagogy is predicated on provocative questioning, rational thought, argument and logic.
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The Curse of Modernity [link fixed!]
George Scialabba on Philip Rieff’s problem with freedom.
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Missing the Point of Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – you can see where it’s going, so why bother?
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Ben Goldacre Offers Homeopathy Journal Club
The experimental papers from the special issue of Homeopathy on the memory of water.
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Pink is Girly and Blue is Butch, or Perhaps Not
Ben Goldacre leafs through the Ladies Home Journal.
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Blasphemous Balls
Saudi flag – pillar of Islam – name of Allah – foot – mullahs – offence – sensitive – oh no.