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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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FDA Approves OTC Access for Plan B
Women 18 and over can get emergency contraception without prescription; girls under 18 can’t.
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Planned Parenthood on Teenage Pregnancy
Dismay at scientifically baseless restrictions that deny teenagers otc access to backup birth control.
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Scary Opinions on Politics and Religion
69% agreed that liberals have ‘gone too far in trying to keep religion out of schools and government.’
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Barriers to Muslim Women in Sports
Hard to swim in a chador.
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Don’t Wanna Be Cohered
Opaque waffle about cohesion and communities on the ground.
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Malaysian ‘Apostate’ Under Death Threat
Civil courts said Malays could not renounce Islam because Constitution defined Malays as Muslims.
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Tom Morris on a Confused Reverend
Who moans about that old canard ‘genetic determinism’.
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Pamela Bone: Muslim Sisters Need our Help
Why do few Western feminists speak out about the cruelty blighting the lives of millions of women?
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David Thompson on Cultural Equivalence
It underlies the fashion for religious protectionism, whereby reason and science are called religions.
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Cass Sunstein on Fear as a Political Tool
Visceral fear and outrage may lead people to prefer the candidate who seems more aggressive.
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Islamists Oppose Rewriting Hudood Ordinance
Women must produce four male witnesses to prove rape or risk 100 lashes or death by stoning.
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Focus on Evidence is not ‘Fascist’
If the authors are interested in European thought, they should reflect on what Sartre meant by ‘bad faith.’
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Events of Interest to Skeptics
Edinburgh, Norwich, Glasgow, London.
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Somali Woman Publicly Flogged
11 lashes for selling $1 worth of cannabis; she pleaded innocence while being beaten.
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Ehsan Masood on Leadership Troubles
It’s time to move on from the idea of (mostly male) British Muslim ‘community leaders.’
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Francis Wheen’s ‘Biography’ of Das Kapital
Elements of the Gothic novel, Victorian melodrama, black farce, Greek tragedy and satirical utopia.
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A N Wilson Reviews Roger Scruton
For a man whose calling is telling the truth it was a blow to be ‘exposed as the lickspittle of tobacco giants.’
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Roger Scruton: Beware Irony-free Religion
It is from a posture of irony that every real negotiation, offer of peace, acceptance of the other, begins.
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Jesus and Mo Do Religion With Irony
The barmaid helps them.