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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘Faith Crime’ Under Investigation
Gay Police Association has ’caused offence’ to Christians by linking Bible to homophobic violence.
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Deleuzo-Guattarian Military ‘Operational Theory’
‘Naveh references such canonical elements of urban theory as the Situationist practices of dérive.’
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Hitchens on Mel Gibson
‘He spoke this way because of his religion, not just his warped personality.’
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Christian Police Association’s ‘Prayer Watch’
Police and Christian groups in Lincolnshire plan to fight crime with the ‘power of prayer.’
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Terry Glavin on Stoppers in Canada
Support for Hezbollah marks ‘one of the most squalid months in the history of the “left” in Canada.’
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Optimistic View of Bush’s Stem Cell Veto
Medical progress has stirred religious and moral objections throughout history.
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Sunny Hundal on the Brick Lane Fuss
‘This controversy has all the elements of being conjured up and playing along expected lines.’
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Wheel Successfully Reinvented
Postpositivist realists discover what philosophers of science already knew.
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Evolution Opponents Lose Kansas Board Majority
Kansas voters set stage for return of science teaching that broadly accepts theory of evolution.
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John Gray Welcomes Return of Religion
‘It is time Paine, Marx and other secular prophets were gently shelved in the stacks.’
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The Health Effects of Illiteracy
Many researchers describe low literacy as a silent epidemic.
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When Dry Drunks Go Bad
They drive dangerously and rave about Jews.
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Johann Hari on the Brick Lane Fuss
It’s about men silencing women.
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Ramin Jahanbegloo and Universal Values
‘Cross-cultural learning’ is a more effective method than imposition by force.
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Bookburners Don’t Speak for All of Brick Lane
Journalists don’t talk to women, for a start.
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Novelists ‘Hit Back’ at Brick Lane Whiners
‘Novelists have attacked community groups, the police and the media.’ Attacked?
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Hitchens on Tom Paine
Lincoln used to deploy arguments from The Age of Reason in his disputes with religious sectarians.
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Iranian Student Leader Dies in Hunger Strike
Akbar Mohammadi was on hunger strike to demand his release.
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Surprise! Godbotherers are Superstitious
According to a UK study, nearly all churchgoers admit to practising superstitious behaviour.