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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Jesus and Mo on Sexual Orientation Regulations
Some of their best friends.
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So, Jesus, About Your Mother
Mo is so insensitive sometimes.
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Ben Goldacre on Consumer Drug Advertizing
Doctors are trained to spot bullshit, consumers not so much.
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Raymond Tallis Lecture mp3
A stirring response to everyone who thinks medicine is a scam.
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Index on Censorship on Conflicting Rights
Certain countries not famously defenders of liberty have made ‘defamation of religion’ an issue.
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Chocolate Jesus Canceled
Gallery’s artistic director cites ‘strong-arming from people who haven’t seen the show.’
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Zimbardo Revisits the Zimbardo Experiment
He became part of it himself. ‘”It is terrible what YOU are doing to those boys!” she yelled at me.’
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Terry Teachout on The Joan Didion Show
Many distracting pieces of notice-me trickery disfigure this meretricious play.
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No Human Right to Criticize Religion
OIC pushes through a resolution at UN HRC urging global prohibition on public defamation of religion.
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Leeds Destitution Inquiry Presents its Findings
Calls for a policy in which asylum seekers can contribute to society rather than rely on precarious handouts.
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Julian Baggini on Jack Sprat Solutions
There is no way of being tough and effective without being fair, and no way of being fair without tough choices.
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James Randerson at Westminster Hall
Hitchens, Dawkins, Grayling meet Neuberger, Scruton, Spivey.
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Yum, Chocolate Jesus
Catholic League is irritated. Lack of loin cloth doesn’t help much.
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Louis Theroux Visits ‘God Hates Fags’ Family
Exploring what is cruelty. Start with an angry, cruel, domineering man, and go on from there.
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Pope Promises Eternal Punishment
‘The problem today is society does not talk about Hell. It’s as if it did not exist, but it does.’
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Nick Cohen Talks to Julian Baggini
Philosophical training to be as critical of the biases he and friends shared as of the biases of others.
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People Don’t Talk About Hell Enough Any More
Good to have a pope who doesn’t mess around with no hell and no devil and human rights.
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Steven Pinker on the History of Violence
Romantic theory gets it backward: modernity has made us less violent, not more so.
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Updike Reviews Isaacson on Einstein
Special relativity has a flavor of the patent office.