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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Clash Between Religion and Superstition
Just when faith turns hot and dangerous, the government responds by encouraging more of it.
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Ayhan Surucu Gets 9 Years for Killing Sister
So angry when his sister started to date German men that he put a gun to her head at a bus stop.
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Judge Questions Prosecution of Schoolboy
Racism bad, but is criminal prosecution of ten-year-olds the best response?
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Maruf Khwaja on Jamaat-i-Islami
Pakistan has been eaten hollow by corrosive obscurantism unleashed by Jamaat and its sympathisers.
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Catherine MacKinnon: Are Women Human?
‘If women were human, would we be sexual and reproductive slaves…worked without pay our whole lives?’
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Scott McLemee on Cell Phones in Libraries
How about a taser gun, with trained shooters?
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Ziauddin Sardar on Verso’s Radical Thinkers
‘Traditions, and intellectual traditions in particular, rapidly ossify and degenerate into obscurantism.’
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Worries About ‘Faith’ Schools
Some of the ‘faith communities’ have agendas at odds with reason and science, says chaplain.
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Norm Geras and Nick Cohen on Euston Manifesto
Too many things that should be obvious in the light of the history of the past 100 years seem not to be so.
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Church Refuses to Serve Transsexual Woman
What she has done, Rev. Maxfield said, runs totally ‘contrary to God’s revealed will.’
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Temporal Lobe Stimulus Triggers Sense of God
In some people; not in others. Dawkins did not find god.
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Royal Society on Evolution, Creationism, ID
Some versions of creationism are incompatible with the scientific evidence.
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Enlightenment Values as Islamophobia
One might almost think there was no current cause for concern about Enlightenment values.
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BHL on a Demagoguery Called ‘Youthism’
Popular opinion is another master, no less capricious, emotional, arbitrary, than the master it corrects.
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What Is an Intellectual?
The British are not at all exceptional in suffering from ‘Dreyfus-envy.’
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Ishtiaq Ahmed on National Identity
‘There is always the possibility for manoeuvre in defining identity.’
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Academics Prefer Hedged, Impersonal Language
Case studies are recorded, data are analysed, concepts are defined, all by an invisible agent.
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So Naomi Wolf Has Found Jesus; This is News?
In all those years as an activist, she’d been neglecting her spirit. Ho hum.
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Christians Sue for Right to be Intolerant
Christian Legal Society forms a national group to challenge tolerance policies in federal court.