Peter Atkins and Keith Ward discuss on Today.
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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The Community Must Communicate to the Community
Blair cannot go into the community, but the community can go into the community and commune with it.
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Pope Pitches Yet Another Fit About Gay Marriage
On account of how it will destroy the family.
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The Pain of Female Genital Mutilation
“While the pain was convulsing me the woman there said, ‘Stop crying, your case is still tolerable’.”
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Ya Think?
‘In many respects the phrase “Muslim community” is itself misleading.’
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Dalits Face Caste Discrimination in UK
Dalit Solidarity Network publishes a new report.
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Fun With Google and Diversity
Methodological problems, context, meaning, Berkeley, Halliburton; it all adds up.
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Michael Tomasky on Lakoff on Whose Freedom?
Freedom is a concept that needs thinking about, but Lakoff is not the ideal thinker for the job.
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Anathema for Stem Cell Researchers
Vatican says scientists who carry out embryonic stem cell research will be excommunicated.
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BBC on Witchcraft in Zimbabwe
Incoherent article seems to imply that witchcraft works.
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Inayat Bunglawala on Darwin and God
Advises against a Galileo moment for Islam.
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I Want My God Helmet and I Want it Now
You really can try this at home.
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Carlin Romano on Richard Hofstadter
His books show that America’s history not only can but must be rewritten by each generation.
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories
What happens when science tries to function in a fringe crusade?
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‘Evidence-based Prejudice’ Can Save Time
If one claim is false, there is no need to demolish all the others.
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Blogs are not Science. Who Knew?
‘Despite the growing popularity of blogs’ scientists don’t consider them reliable sources.
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Dutch Government Resigns Over Hirsi Ali Case
The D-66 party objected to Verdonk’s handling of the issue, and walked out.
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Cass Sunstein on Court’s Stunning Decision
Plurality said that Hamdan’s proposed trial violated Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
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Spiegel Looks at Hamdan Ruling
Supreme Court insists on rights accorded by the US legal system and by the Geneva Convention.
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Spiegel on Fall of Dutch Government
Coalition government collapsed in acrimony after D66 party supported a vote of no confidence.