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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Six Basic Scientific Questions
Dunno. I forget, 100 million? 60 billion? It closes a circuit. Something about entropy?
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Egypt Bans FGM After Girl’s Death
Yet the Guardian goes on calling it circumcision.
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Examine the Data, not the Author
Popular forums like newspapers critique the person who did the research, not the research itself.
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Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson on Iran
A feminist activist told us she feared a return visit to “Hotel Evin” – Evin Prison, where she had been tortured.
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The CIA’s ‘Family Jewels’ Released June 26
Documents catalog domestic wiretapping, assassination plots, and spying on journalists.
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Toronto Woman Returns to Iraq to Fight for Women
‘Nobody has the right to tell us that we are second-rate citizens,’ Yanar Mohammed said.
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Burning Car Rams Glasgow Air Terminal
Witnesses describe a car being driven at speed towards the building with flames coming out from underneath.
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Guardian Calls Glasgow Attack ‘al-Qaeda inspired’
Security sources believe the attack is linked to two car bombs in London.
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Farish Noor to Rushdie: We’re Proud of You, Bro
‘For many a young Asian academic and student then, Rushdie was our spokesman, our voice of reason.’
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The Word ‘Rape’ Banned from Rape Trial
It’s prejudicial to call it rape, but then what is it to call it sex?
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Isreal Boosts Image via Undressed Female Soldiers
‘Maxim was approached by the Israeli consulate to be a part of reshaping Israel’s public image.’
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Massimo Pigliucci on Disgust
Are liberals morally stunted? Or are conservatives morally bloated.
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Bunglawala Does Better
Well done. Let’s hope it catches on.
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Grayling on Hitchens on Ungreatness of God
The anti-religion case has never been put so well or so comprehensively as in this razor-sharp book.
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Hitchens Book Flying Off Shelves
‘This is atheism’s moment,’ says publisher.
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Thailand Withdraws ‘Persepolis’ From Film Festival
Iran applied pressure, Thai government caved. Another win for the ‘glorious Islamic Revolution.’
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Falsifying Hitchens
Saying MLK wasn’t a true Christian is a dodge; lose ten points.
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Liberals Don’t Get the Purity/Sanctity Thing
Liberals are blind to the disgust ‘argument’ against homosexuality, Jonathan Haidt claims.
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Ian Buruma Says No Problem
‘The prospect of an Islamised Europe is remote’ – and that’s all that matters?