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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘DNA Shows the Tomb is That of Jesus’
‘Tests on samples’ show Jesus and Mary Magdalene were a couple. Eh?
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Stuart Jeffries Moans Over ‘Dearly Held Beliefs’
Dean of Southwark calls atheists as fundamentalist as tube-bombers. Really.
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Ben Goldacre on Transgressive Genius
An academic journal that publishes a fringe review of a fringe book owes readers some background.
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Prospect Asks 100 Thinkers The Big Question
What’s next? What will take the place of left and right?
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Gillian McKeith is Feeling Bullied
She can’t call herself Dr any more; it’s so unkind.
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Catholic School Expels Student for Tattoo
Hey, kid, appearances matter. Jesus was a snappy dresser.
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Nick Cohen on Censorship of the Internet
Saudi Arabia’s theocrats have banned ‘Women in American History’ Encyclopedia entry.
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Debut of TPM Blog
Is philosophy like health food or therapy?
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MoD Document on Remote Viewing
Freedom of Information in action.
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Islam-jokes Return to Düsseldorf Carnival
Last year’s joke about women never made it off the drawing board.
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Mediawatchwatch Has the Joke
Jacques Tilly ‘was particularly pleased with the Muslim women piece’ – this one.
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Holocaust Denier Ernst Zundel Sentenced
In Germany, to five years for inciting racial hatred.
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Prosecutor Denounced Kareem as ‘Apostate’
Kareem’s father has called for him to be killed if he does not ‘announce his repentence.’
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HRW on Karim’s Imprisonment
Arrested after he criticized Muslim rioters and Islam in a blog post about sectarian clashes.
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RSF on ‘Kareem Amer’
Egypt is on the list of 13 Internet enemies which Reporters Without Borders compiled in 2006.
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MCB Guidelines for Schools
The list is long, the word ‘should’ appears a lot.
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MCB School Guidelines
Swimming out, dancing out, Ramadan in, hijab in.
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MoD Seeks ‘Psychic Powers’
Funded tests into ability of volunteers to use psychic powers to ‘remotely view’ hidden objects.
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Gambia’s President Claims to Cure AIDS
Yahya Jammeh says his herbal medicine cures AIDS in three days.