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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Stan Persky on Dawkins and Baggini on God
‘Though I don’t agree with believers, I have considerable empathy for their yearnings.’
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Partial Free Secondary Education in Uganda
Many students have been dropping out of secondary school because of the high cost of school fees.
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Dominionists are Different From Fundamentalists
Chris Hedges argues that dominionism is ur-Fascism.
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Can You Do Philosophy on a Weblog?
Nigel Warburton says one of the best ways of conceptualising blogs is as published commonplace books.
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Arizona Bill Would Forbid Academics to
Advocate ‘one side of a social, political, or cultural issue that is a matter of partisan controversy.’
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Hossein Derakhshan on Internet Censorship in Iran
Many reformist-backed websites were filtered in the past couple of years.
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Alok Jha on a Worked-up Ethical Debate
Opposition to creation of animal-human hybrid embryos for stem cell research is irrational.
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‘I won’t be happy until I lose my legs’
‘I have something called body identity integrity disorder.’
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Indiana State University Plans to Economize
Is a university without philosophy and physics really a university?
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‘Voice’ of the Muslim Community is Always Male
Muslim society, Gina Khan says, is based on male domination and the oppression of women.
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Supporters Join Gina Khan
‘It’s not right that the spokesman from the Central Mosque should be able to talk for us all.’
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Bomb Kills Polio Immunization Official in Pakistan
He was returning from a meeting of tribal elders to persuade them to end opposition to immunization.
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David Aaronovitch Reviews Nick Cohen
Exploration of a perverse phenomenon, in which pacifism turned into a tolerance of Nazism.
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Rebecca Weisser Reviews Nick Cohen
His ambition is to show how the Left of the 20th century ended up supporting the far Right of the 21st.
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Ben Goldacre on Patrick Holford
‘Dealing with Holford is like playing Bad Science Bingo.’
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Kenyan Principal Expels Uncircumcised Boys
Taboos, bullying, tradition, public institutions, parents, expense.
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Oddities of Texas Legislature
Evolution is the Pharisee Religion; Einstein and Sagan were Kabbalists; Hollywood did it.
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Brian Opera Awakes Blasphemy Worries
‘It has got to be offensive to anyone who values music as means of expressing great ideas.’
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Congress Considers Armenian Genocide Bill
Turkey rejects the genocide label, argues that 300,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife.