Mothers do this, fathers do that, therefore gays shouldn’t have children. Gilligan disputes conclusion.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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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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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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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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The Financial Times Does Lunch with Dawkins
‘I don’t want just to annoy people – I want to change people’s minds.’