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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Armchair Warriors Pile On Jill Carroll
Ooh, I’m sitting in the Empire State Building, I’m on the front lines.
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Translation of Polittiken Piece by Ibrahim Ramadan
Organisations such as Hizb-ut-Tahrir working to control what other Moslems should believe, think, do.
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Why Not Be a Tattletale?
Sociologist Charles Tilly examines our reasons for giving reasons.
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ID is the Logic of Ignorance, Steve Jones Says
Some ID advocates need glasses; don’t they wonder about the designer?
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Conversation and Cosmopolitanism
Carlin Romano on conversation as a process of learning to live with one another.
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Misinterpretation and Misreporting
Mims, Pianka, the Discovery Institute.
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Ignatieff Interviewed
Even when cabinet ministers admit they’ve lied, nobody believes them, interviewer notes.
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Enough With the ‘Faith Schools’ Already
National Union of Teachers says religious fundamentalists are gaining control of state schools.
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Kanan Makiya on What’s Gone Right and Wrong
The Ba’ath party was hated, but it turned out to be far more deep rooted in Iraq than we thought.
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On Taking the Templeton Foundation’s Dime
If you don’t think science and religion should be reconciled, qualms arise.
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Irfan Husain on Apostasy and Liberal Attitudes
Double standards can be problematic.
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What War on Christians?
Disagreement isn’t oppression.
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André Glucksmann on Separating Truth and Belief
Civilized discourse analyzes and defines matters of fact relating to knowledge, not to faith.
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Only Animists Shout at Their Computers
The danger here, Dennett says, lies in the sacred becoming too sacred.
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Introduction to ‘Living Without God’ [pdf]
Ronald Aronson on finding faith in disbelief.
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Congo Child Sorcery Abuse on the Rise
HRW: self-styled pastors use torture, beatings, denial of food to rid children of alleged sorcery .
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Human Rights Watch on Children in D.R. Congo
War, HIV/AIDS, high school fees, accusations of sorcery increase number of street children.
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Women Sold Into Slavery in Haryana
Selective abortion has made women scarce, so they are coerced and exploited.
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Ishtiaq Ahmed on Apostasy
Are we all then to be hanged because we question dogma?