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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Complete Coverage of McKeith
Including links to Quackwatch and more.
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Gillian McKeith to Drop ‘Dr’ From Advertising
Has agreed to drop the title from her company’s advertising after a complaint to the industry watchdog.
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Ben Goldacre on McKeith
The advert allegedly breached two clauses of the code: ‘substantiation’ and ‘truthfulness’.
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John Searle Interviewed
Searle’s forte is his determination to see how science reformulates traditional questions of philosophy.
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School Fights Niqab Case
School in 1995 ‘conspired in gender apartheid carried out in the name of “cultural inclusion”.’
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Nick Cohen on Unelected Unaccountable Lords
Under Labour’s proposals, patronage and the disastrous influence of organised religion will remain.
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Terry Sanderson on Clerics in the House of Lords
No other western democracy gives religious representatives automatic seats as the UK does.
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Shahid Malik Rebukes MCB Leadership
Solely ‘defending’ Muslims reinforces the victim narrative that dominates Muslim discourse.
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Daniel Dennett and H Allen Orr on Dawkins
They disagree.
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They Have to Recruit People, You Know
Haggard proves that the ‘homosexual agenda’ is so aggressive that it can recruit even the holiest.
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The More Religious, the Less Willing to Reflect
For those who are religiously correct, critical reflection breeds doubt and must, therefore, be resisted.
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College Officials ‘Utterly Distraught and Disgusted’
Student publishes prophet cartoon; officials tell police, meet to decide what to do with evildoer.
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Kenan Malik on the Ethics of Hybrid Embryos
Time to stop pretending the moral high ground belongs to those who restrain scientific research.
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Stephen Law on Moral Relativism
Four reasons why it is fashionable, politically correct codswallop.
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Norman Levitt on Anti-science Right and Left
The Bush version is far more dangerous than the postmodernist version – but there is overlap.
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Comment Parler des Livres que l’on n’a pas Lus
That’s how to talk about books you haven’t read. Answer: pretentiously, of course.
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AI Condemns the Murder of Hrant Dink
Amnesty International called for the repeal of Act 301 and condemned his prosecution.
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Head Defends Epithet-laced Textbook
‘The school is owned, funded and run by the government of Saudi Arabia’ and located in Acton.
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Portugal Considers Legal Abortion
Women can be sent to prison for up to three years for having an abortion.