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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Postmodernism and Shopping
Modern retailers are only just getting to grips with the fragmentation of narratives.
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R Joseph Hoffmann on the Baylor Religion Survey
The study is so “extensive” that cherry-picking topics is the only way to do it the injustice it deserves.
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Leakey Fights Church Campaign Against Fossils
Evangelical church leaders want Kenya’s national museum to hide hominid fossils in back room.
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Bad Astronomy on Carl Sagan
Who died ten years ago today.
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Remembering Carl Sagan
A lot of people do.
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Little Atoms Remembers Carl Sagan Friday
Special edition commemorating Sagan on 22nd December, with Ann Druyan, Louis Friedman, more.
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Cornell Remembers Sagan
‘Carl was a candle in the dark. He was, quite simply, the best science educator in the world this century.’
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France’s Best-selling Philosopher [link fixed]
‘Against the rabbis, the preachers, the imams, ayatollahs and mullahs, I persist in preferring the philosopher.’
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Satan is Hot
Over the past half-century, the Devil has rarely been out of fashion.
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Teacher Threatens Students With Hell
‘If you reject his gift of salvation, then you know where you belong. If you reject that, you belong in hell.’
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Theo Hobson Attempts a Joke
He probably thinks women aren’t funny.
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Paola Cavalieri on Animals and Justice
Does extending rights to animals weaken rights for humans?
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The Financial Times Does Lunch with Dawkins
‘I don’t want just to annoy people – I want to change people’s minds.’
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Anti-Ahmadinejad Students Flee for their Lives
His supporters have threatened them with revenge.
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David Thompson on Art Bollocks Revisited
Art bollocks has become institutionalised and normalised, is now almost the default way of writing.
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Two Books of Philosophy That Aren’t Really
Colin McGinn on Shakespeare’s philosophy and a Critique of Criminal Reason.
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Jesus and Mo on the Efficacy of Prayer
God is amazing.
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Jesus and Mo Quiz the Barmaid
Why are atheists so angry at the religious?
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Jesus and Mo on the War on Christmas
They want people to remember it’s Jesus’s pretend birthday.