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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Atheist Books Top Best-seller Lists
Publishers Weekly said the business has seen ‘a striking number of impassioned critiques of religion.’
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Parliamentary Motion on Science Education
Literature being sent to UK schools by ‘Truth in Science’ is full of scientific mistakes.
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Media Ignore MMR Correction
They were all over 2002 report, but now that new study suggests there were false positives – yawn.
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Protests at ‘Faith’ Schools Quota
Catholics and Jews irritated about quotas or ‘faith’ schools or both.
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Darwin Online Debuts
Look at all that…
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Niqab for a Day
Hard to breathe, hot, can’t eat or drink, feels like oppressing and isolating oneself. Good fun.
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Asylum from Female Genital Mutilation
Law Lords ruled female members of tribes where FGM is common are a group fearing persecution.
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Pinker on Lakoff: Angels and Demons
Lakoff ‘divides the world into blocs of angels and devils, based on his own fantasies of what the devil believes.’
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Terry Eagleton Wandering
Like Zelig or Forrest Gump, Eagleton seems to have been there at all the crucial moments.
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Bruce Ackerman and Todd Gitlin Defend Liberals
Against nonsense on stilts from pundits on the right and Tony Judt on the left.
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Turkish Archaeologist Faces Trial
Wrote scientific article about hijab; prosecutor charged her with ‘inciting hatred based on religious differences.’
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Darwin’s Complete Works to Go Online
Cambridge makes the whole shooting match available for free.
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Darwin Online Will be Launched October 19
Never before has so much Darwin material been brought together in one place and made available free of charge.
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Iran Bans Fast Internet Service
Iran filters more websites than any other country apart from China.
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Older Students Still Required to ‘Worship’
‘The Government’s refusal is an abuse of Human Rights,’ says Keith Porteous Wood.
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Nadia Jamal on Veils, Faces, and Different Rules
If the beach is good enough for men, it should be good enough for women too.
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‘Faith’ Schools Must Cross Religious Barriers
By being secular schools? No, by having quotas for ‘other faiths’.
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Interview with Stephen Law
We need citizens raised to think and question.
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Hamid Dabashi Accuses Azar Nafisi
‘To me there is no difference between Lynndie England and Azar Nafisi,’ he told Z-net.