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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Chet Raymo on Knowing You Don’t Know
Wisdom is willingness to say ‘I don’t know.’ Why is there something rather than nothing? ‘I don’t know.’
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Danny Postel on Hossein Derakhshan
Why did openDemocracy publish an article that justifies the repression of intellectual freedom?
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SciAm on Dikika Baby
Skeleton provides new information on A. afarensis locomotion.
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Michael Shermer on Conservatives and Evolution
Ways to find compatibility.
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The Economist on The God Delusion
‘If nothing else, his book should help bring the atheists out of the closet.’
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Bad Science: the Fish Oil Files
Equazen won’t let Ben Goldacre review the research evidence unless he signs a confidentiality agreement.
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Dawkins on Newsnight Tonight
Talking to Jeremy Paxman about The God Delusion.
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Johann Hari: the Real Reasons to be Cross at Pope
Hari has heard priests tell people that condoms come pre-infected with AIDS and are the reason people die of it.
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Scott McLemee on Walter Benn Michaels
‘Michaels will have none of this repackaging of racist pseudoscience as “anti-racist” cultural relativism.’
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Andrew Brown on Dawkins on God
Why does religion persist in the face of arguments and evidence?
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No Good Blaming the Internet for Sockpuppetry
Deception is deception, whatever the medium.
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Michael Walsh on the Pope
Pope’s desire to re-Christianise Europe underlies his Regensburg address.
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Elif Shafak Acquitted of ‘Insulting Turkishness’
Government may amend Article 301 which makes ‘denigrating Turkish national identity’ a crime.
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Why the IAEA Matters
Because once the inspectors are barred, speculation and exaggeration move in.
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Conspecific of Lucy Found in Ethiopia
Stunningly complete skeleton of 3 year old female Australopithecus afarensis found in Awash region.
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Bush Muses on Flawed Logic
If you object to torture you must think Murkans are no better than those Bad People. QED.
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Indolink on Nussbaum on Hindutva
New book traces background of Gujarat riots in ideology of the Hindu right.
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Gore Writing Book on ‘the Assault on Reason’
On public hostility to reason: problem-solving impeded by unwillingness to let facts drive decisions.
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Walter Benn Michaels on the Trouble with Diversity
‘We like to talk about the differences we can appreciate, and we don’t like to talk about the ones we can’t.’