Bush administration puts industry officials in charge of worker safety regulations.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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US House Committee Hears About Wartime Lies
Egregious examples of officials’ twisting the truth for public relations in wartime.
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More Complaint About ‘Strident’ Atheism
Winston calls Dawkins insulting and patronizing; Grayling calls Winston’s claims tiresome guff.
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Newspapers are Ditching Book Sections
Hey, books are expendable.
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A C Grayling on the Debate Around String Theory
Lee Smolin enters an eloquent plea on behalf of the original thinkers, the sceptics, the eccentric minds, .
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Jesus Love-Bombs You
Believers are taught to emphasize personal experience rather than reasoning.
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George Felis on What Atheism Isn’t
A religion; a matter of faith.
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Say What? Is This a Hoax?
A PhD thesis consisting of a reality tv show that mocks two intellectually disabled guys?
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David Halberstam 1934-2007
His dispatches infuriated policy makers, but they accurately reflected the realities on the ground.
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50% of News Must be ‘Positive’
New managers tell Russia’s largest independent radio news network what’s what.
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Israel’s ‘Voluntary’ ‘Modesty’ Buses
‘This really is about positive discrimination, in women’s favour.’ Hence the need to hit them if they refuse.
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Pittsburgh Imam on Death Penalty for ‘Defamation’
No punishment for children though. ‘It’s a very merciful religion if you try to understand it.’
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More Than 100 Women Arrested in Iran
For ‘dressing immodestly.’ The sluts.
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Zambian Conservationist Wins Goldman Prize
Hammerskjoeld Simwinga helps women, local communities and elephants all at once.
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Pope Abolishes Limbo
It was a mere hypothesis, and not nice, so it goes. Next up: about this god fella…
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Atheists are Splitters!
‘New’ atheists are fundamentalists, says ‘humanist chaplain’.
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Evangelist Saves Sinners From Enjoying Park
‘All of you will burn in hellfire, so sayeth the Lord,’ Hilson informed a toddler. [The Onion]
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Gen-X Humanism for the Passionately Confused
Cynical misappropriation of Harvard’s national reputation as a way of bottling humanism.
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A Hazy Notion of Civic Responsibility
A class divide is opening up between taxpayers and tax avoiders; Labour is on the wrong side.
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Stephen Law Interviews Nigel Warburton
What is clarity, and why is it important in philosophy?
