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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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Ben Goldacre on Scare Stories
Deputy political editors write science articles.
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Religious Police at Saudi Book Fair
The presence of report in semi-official Saudi newspaper indicates discontent with the religious police.
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Another ‘Honor’ Killing in Jordan
Fourth since January.
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Life Sentence Upheld in Danish ‘Honor’ Killing
Teenage daughter killed because she married without her family’s consent.
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Conservapedia Cites ‘Bias’ at Wikipedia
Bias in favor of evidence and reason, apparently.
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Three Women Murdered in Gaza
‘Not an honor crime, or a family crime; this is organized crime.’ So that’s worse?
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Sean Wilentz on Arthur Schlesinger
‘He often quoted the great Dutch historian Peter Geyl, that “history is argument without end”.’
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Not Just Bad History but Bad Politics
Legislators are not the best people to answer the question ‘What is truth?’
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Caspar Melville on Stuart Jeffries
Since when is writing books and making arguments comparable to mass murder?
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Scott McLemee Looks at the Inspiration Biz
Faculty had chance to attend ‘Making a Difference: It Begins With You.’ They skipped it.
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Letters to Guardian About Stuart Jeffries Piece
‘Adherents to the supernatural explanation of life apparently cannot bear to hear any opposition.’
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Russian Schoolgirl Loses Evolution Lawsuit
When schools impose this theory on children, they violate the human right of free choice.
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Richard Sykes Talks to Alok Jha About Science
‘We live in a world that likes things to be mysterious and not explained in detail all the time.’
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Terry Eagleton Prides Himself on Being ‘Difficult’
‘As Britain’s answer to Derrida, Althusser and Deleuze, Eagleton has standards to maintain.’
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No ‘Third Way’ Between Islam and the West
To have to defend the Enlightenment against an accusation of fundamentalism is pretty ludicrous.
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Stuart Sim Defends Postmodernism
‘When religions enter politics, they have a depressing habit of gravitating towards theocracy.’
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Do Women and Girls Have Human Rights?
Christian and Muslim conservatives unite to block women’s rights and freedom.
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Nick Cohen Talks to Simon Baron-Cohen
Evolutionary explanations of the brain are not as politically hazardous as they once were.
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Tests Accused of Mocking Muhammad
Which is odd, since they were sponsored by the Iranian government.