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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Dependence of Morality on Religion
From Stephen Law’s The War For Children’s Minds.
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No, Really, I Felt the P-values in my Soul
Our abilities to distinguish an actual pattern from mere background noise are deeply flawed.
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EU Makes Incitement to Xenophobia a Crime
Armenians not mentioned; Turkey mollified.
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Phelps Church to Disrupt Virginia Tech Funeral
A church news release explains: ‘God is punishing America for her sodomite sins.’
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Women Break Silence on Honour Killings
Abu Ghanem family has been killing its women; eight have been murdered here in the last six years.
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The Superintendent Keeps a Stash of Body Bags
After the last killing, of Hamda Abu Ghanem, 18, female relatives decided to speak up. Twenty of them.
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Disbelief Can Be Passionate
‘Sometimes it should provoke a great shout: “Stop. You don’t know that. You have no right.”’
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Jesus and Mo Demonstrate Against Secularists
Their lack of deference is oppressive.
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Jesus and Mo Argue About Nuns
Nuns are too so useful.
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Buffoon Enacts Stupid Rambo Fantasy
Say hello to the banality of evil.
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Supreme Court Bans Intact D and E Abortions
Lack of exception for woman’s health not a problem because who knows, maybe it never is one.
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David Barash on the DNA of Religion
The era of deference to religious belief is ending as faith is subjected to gimlet-eyed scrutiny.
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Carlin Romano Remembers Robert Solomon
The go-to guy in philosophy when it came to emotions, the scholar the encyclopedia editors called first.
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Basil Fawlty’s Idea of Literature?
Hating pretentiousness is a bracing sentiment but it jumps easily to mere philistinism.
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2 Mormon Women on Trial for Torturing Children
Abuse included hitting with rolling pins and nettles, and forcing them to eat red-hot chillies.
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Student Apologizes for ‘Anti-Islamic Material’
‘A collective decision was taken to pursue a course of restorative justice and reconciliation.’
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Johann Hari on an Imperial Historian
‘How should this American Empire exercise its power? One useful tactic, Roberts believes, is massacring civilians.’
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Andrew Roberts and Johann Hari Disagree
Hari cites chapter and verse.
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Norman Levitt on Theodicy for Atheists
‘What I tell you three times is true’ but what I tell you forty-two times maybe not.