Are we all then to be hanged because we question dogma?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Football, Race and ‘Identity’
Leipzig fans spit and hoot at Nigerian footballer. There’s solidarity for you.
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Christians in Afghanistan
Persecution has turned Afghan converts into a closely knit underground organization.
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Dude, I Bedazzled These Jeans
Padma Lakshmi like talks to a Times reporter.
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Phyllis Chesler Talks to John Sutherland
Sutherland quotes the wisdom of Islamophobiawatch.
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Dennett Replies to Bunting and Ruse
Reporters should avoid being complicit in publicity stunts by the likes of Dembski.
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Ronald Aronson: the Left Needs More Socialism
The left is doomed without a vision, a sense of direction and an effective call to arms.
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Peer Review and ‘Media Science’
How do we tell good science from bad? By looking at how it is published.
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Study Finds Prayer Non-medicinal
Intercessory prayer doesn’t help and, if mentioned, may hinder.
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Empire of Pseudoscience Peddled in Schools
Just kicked Brain Gym Teacher’s Edition around the room for two minutes and feeling minty fresh.
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Exercise Brain Without Pseudoscientific Nonsense
A popular technique with a scientific explanatory framework that is barkingly out to lunch.
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An Alumni Mag Profile Gone Horribly Wrong
Scott McLemee notes a confusion between sententious comments and profound thought.
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Yardley Reviews a Memoir by John McGahern
‘In that one life of the mind, the writer could live many lives and all of life.’
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Fouad Ajami on Sen’s ‘Identity and Violence’
The Almohads’ pitiless warriors put to the sword the fabled world of Andalusian tolerance.
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Professors Called Liars and Bigots
LRB article on Israel lobby set off firestorm, drawing condemnation from left and right.
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LRB Editor Defends Article
Some charge anti-Semitism, others call article a shoddy piece of pseudo-academia.
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Stephen Greenblatt on Marlowe
Is there any connection between his spying and his writing?
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Pakistan Considers Extraditing Blasphemers
Oregon bloggers on the list because they published the Motoons.
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Catholic Bishop Questions Vatican Condom Ban
Bishop notes papal teaching also includes the law: ‘You should not kill.’
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Danish Muslim Organizations Sue Editors
Lawyer calls text and drawings ‘gratuitously defamatory and injurious’.