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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Fatwa Against Taslima Nasreen is Revived
‘Taslima has spoken against Islam and Prophet Muhammad and we will go to any extent to eliminate her.’
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Muslim Clerics Issue ‘Death Warrant’ on Nasreen
Clerics from prominent mosques in Kolkata said she had invited their wrath via ‘repeated criticism’ of Islam.
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India’s Prosperity Enables Sex Selection
New and more widely available technology is fuelling female foeticide.
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Double Standards in Supernaturalism
Heads I win, tails you lose.
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Taslima Nasreen Could Face Prison
For being attacked. (Note Center for Inquiry banner behind her.)
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Simon Callow on Michael White’s Galileo
Italy produced no physical scientist of the slightest importance for two centuries after Galileo.
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‘Verifier’ Exposes Gaps in Logic
That can result from expert biases and mistakes and invisibly skew research results.
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Scottish NHS Gives Ramadan Advice
Doctors and nurses should not eat in front of Muslim patients and colleagues during Ramadan.
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NHS Staff Given Eating ‘Rules’ for Ramadan
Staff have been told not to eat at their desks to avoid offending Muslim colleagues.
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Amartya Sen on India’s Democratic Success
India became overnight the first poor country in the world to be a full-scale democracy.
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Shashi Tharoor on Indian Pluralism
For now, the sectarian Hindu chauvinists have lost the battle over India’s identity.
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Oscillating Between Science and the Paranormal
Scientists who indulge religious fantasies in the interest of popularisation are betraying their profession.
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Amartya Sen on Independent India at 60
Now we make deals not with the Burmese people struggling for democracy, but with the military dictators of Myanmar.
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Hurriyet Fires Secularist Columnist
Colasan is one of the leading columnists of the secularist front. News that he was fired sparked angry reaction.
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The Right to Write Insultingly
Hurriyet expresses regret at Colason’s departure but says he had a tendency to write insultingly.
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David Baltimore Offers a Defense of Atheism
Religion supplants evidence and logic with faith, so politicians can appeal to faith and let it go at that.
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The Worst Op-ed Ever Written?
Stanley Fish shrewdly notices there are fancy new coffee shops out there. No, really.
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Ramachandra Guha on India’s Internal Partition
Partition was meant to solve the Hindu-Muslim question, but it’s only made things worse.
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Hirsi Ali Criticises Labour Over Jami
Labour leader Wouter Bos has made it clear that his party will not support the ex-Muslim committee.
