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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Normblog Writer’s Choice: Julian Baggini
Humans cannot conquer nature and nor can they just hold hands with it and skip along the lane singing la-di-da.
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Death Sentences for Two Iranian Journalists
Iran has sentenced two dissident journalists for being ‘enemies of God.’
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The Subconscious Mind
Everyday sights, smells and sounds can selectively activate goals or motives that people already have.
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The Afterlife as Information?
Maybe minds are like radio signals and brains are like radios? Or maybe not.
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Another ‘Honour’ Killing
Bachan Athwal and her son Sukhdave arranged the murder of Surjit Athwal ‘to defend the family honour.’
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Colorado Regents Vote to Fire Ward Churchill
Research misconduct cited, but Churchill and supporters say the decision was political.
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Academic Freedom Matters; So Does Truth
3 panels unanimously found that chunks of Churchill’s work met his own criteria for intellectual dishonesty.
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This is not a Parody
‘Research misconduct is in the eye of the beholder.’ Ah yes – so is perjury, fraud, falsification…
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Deborah Lipstadt on Ward Churchill
He called DL an Eichmann for ignoring the genocide of Native Americans; she was ‘destroying another people.’
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Dylan Evans’s Utopia Experiment
‘The logs were symbolic of the enormity of what I’d taken on and I just froze.’
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Cyberbullying
Anonymity brings out the shark in people.
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Foreign Policy Lists the Stupidest Fatwas
From Pokemon to Polio.
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Celebrating the Sanctity of Tuberculosis
Supporters took part in a pooja ceremony celebrating the sanctity of life at the temple enclosure.
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Hindu Expert Says Monks Got it Wrong
Their interpretation of Hinduism was naive and simplistic, said Jay Lakhani.
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Muslim Support for Suicide Bombing Falls
Pew Survey reports fall in support since 2002, but in Palestine support is still at 70%.
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Dangerous Ideas
Pinker and Dawkins discuss.
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South Africa: Men Tell Women to Wear Skirts
A trouser-wearing woman in Umlazi township was stripped naked and her shack burnt down.
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Roger Scruton on the Anthropology of Religion
The important thing is not god or gods but the sacred.
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More Immunity for Religion, Islam in Particular
Malaysian government warns it could use anti-terrorism laws against bloggers who ‘insult’ Islam.