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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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David Colquhoun Looks at Snoring Studies
‘Oh dear: looks like yet another undisclosed financial interest in a clinical study.’
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Ben Goldacre in Praise of Quack Hunting
Nerdy appraisal of research is fun once you’re catching people out and making them look silly.
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Herbal Sex Aids Herbal but not Sex Aids
Fast Formula Wild Pink and Fast Formula Horny have been taken off the shelves.
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MHRA Press Release on Herbal Sex-meds
‘Only licensed medicines may be advertised to the public.’
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Muslim Scholars Call for End to FGM
Said governments should enforce existing laws against the practice.
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FGM Education Project
Background.
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WHO Urges Vatican to Hurry Up on Condoms
‘Could we please have this debate in a hurry. Lives are at risk and time is short.’
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Abuse of Women in Afghanistan
In many areas women are viewed as chattels and beaten accordingly.
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Kirklees Council Sacks Aishah Azmi
Tribunal dismissed her claims of religious discrimination and harassment on religious grounds.
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Sexist, Homophobic Bullying of Teachers
Sexist jokes and put-downs made female pupils feel degraded too, the NUT said.
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BA Must Grovel to Religion
‘People of faith expect not just tolerance, but respect. BA needs to show it.’
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Jersey Looks for Water on Advice of Diviners
Drilling, supervision, analysis and interpretation costs expected to be about £61,000.
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Jersey Fails to Find Water With Help of Diviners
Diviners said it was there, but when boreholes were drilled, it wasn’t.
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Animals and Mental States
Evidence that psychology is conserved between human and nonhuman species.
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Swallowing a Toad for Breakfast
Teaching Schopenhauer in prison can get tricky.
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Jonathan Wolff on Writing and Repetition
‘Repetition and boredom, then, are our trademark. Excellent. I shall go out and tell everyone I know. Many times.’
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Steven Pinker Asks for Less Faith, More Reason
Universities are about reason; faith – believing something without good reasons – has no place except in a religious institution.
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University and Class
‘Class values riddle British universities much more confusingly than elsewhere.’
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The Quiverfull Movement – Breeding for God
Quiverfull parents have many children, homeschool, favor male rule and female submissiveness.