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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Define Multiculturalism Before Debating It
Otherwise you get a fruit salad of a debate.
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Taji Mustafa Pipes Up for Sharia
It’s a good thing. Really.
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Scientologists in a Huff at BBC
Official says it is considering legal action and a formal complaint to Ofcom.
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Lewis Wolpert on Belief, Philosophy, Qi
‘I think philosophers are terribly clever but have absolutely nothing useful to say whatsoever.’
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Bush Stands by His Wolfowitz
Thus consolidating reputation for cronyism, incompetence, corruption, and venality.
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Esfandiari Being Investigated for ‘Security Crimes’
The Woodrow Wilson Center scholar is in Evin prison.
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A Skeptical View of the Sacredness of Bulls
If bullocks are sacred, what was Indra doing scarfing one?
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From D N Jha’s The Myth of the Holy Cow
‘The evidence from the epics is quite eloquent. Most of the characters in the Mahabharata are meat eaters.’
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Wolfowitz Blames Riza and World Bank
She was intractable, bank made him do it; he is blameless. Bank thinks otherwise.
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Silence, Infidel
No you may not criticize Islam; truth is no defense.
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Jerry Falwell Dies
If only he were the last of his kind.
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Zimbabwe to Head Development Commission?
Perhaps as shining example of how not to develop?
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Anthony Gottlieb on Atheists With Attitude
Interpreting the nature and prevalence of religious opinions is tricky, particularly if you depend on polls.
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Mark Vernon on Philosophy Going Public
High-profile academics working in analytic philosophy want their discipline to become engaged again.
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Dennett Reviews Hitchens on God
‘At times, his impatience with the smug denial of the self-righteous gets the better of him.’
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DRC Journalist Detained After Questioning Official
Lutette was imprisoned for three weeks in 2005 and a month in 2006 over critical articles.
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CPJ Outraged by Police Beating in Zimbabwe
CPJ calls for investigation into police beating of Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa.
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Scientology Fights Off BBC Investigation
Reporter has been shouted at, spied on, denounced as a ‘bigot’ by star Scientologists.
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The Flawed Scholarship of Alister McGrath
Inaccurate quotation after inaccurate quotation.