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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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“If they get on a haredi bus”
“…they should get on in the back, they need to respect us,” said a woman on the 56 bus.
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Israel: hundreds board segregated buses in protest
Hundreds of men and women boarded gender-segregated buses in Jerusalem and Ramat Gan on Sunday, in protest of the exclusion of women from the public sphere.
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Laurie Penny on tabloid sexism
The British tabloid press is oozing with the very worst sort of malicious, heavy-breathing misogyny.
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How Tim Tebow looks from across the pond
“Unusually for a sportsman, Tebow talks openly about his relationship with Jesus Christ in interviews.” His wot?
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2 abortion providers arrested for murder of fetuses
Maryland allows murder charges to be brought against someone accused of killing a viable fetus. The 2005 law had been used only for cases of assaulting or killing pregnant women.
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Phil Plait says: Stop antivaxxers. Now
Why? How about Dana McCaffery, 5 February 2009-9 March 2009. Pertussis.
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Uganda: acid attack on ex-Muslim Christian bishop
Bishop Umar Mulinde, a sheikh before his conversion to Christianity, was attacked outside his Gospel Life Church International building in Namasuba.
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Vaccination saves lives
Advising Aboriginal parents not to vaccinate their children is a little bit like the deliberate manufacture and sale of shonky children’s play equipment.
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More revelations of threats to Pakistani journalists
A level of danger pervades the industry, and for the last two years, CPJ has ranked Pakistan as the world’s deadliest country for journalists.
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Celebrities and Science 2011
Sense About Science issues its annual report on celebrities pushing claims that appear to make little scientific sense.
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Haredi man hurls sexist slurs at woman aboard public bus
Shlomo Fuchs called soldier Doron Matalon “slut slut slut” because she would not move to the back of the bus when he told her to.
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Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests fight each other
Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms while cleaning the church in preparation for Orthodox Christmas.
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Jesus appears in a sock
He looks a bit peevish.
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Israelis rally against Haredi extremism
They held signs reading “Free Israel from religious coercion” and “Stop Israel from becoming Iran.”
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Cameron in praise of theocracy
“He staunchly defended the role of religion in politics and said the Bible in particular was crucial to British values.”
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When PMs link religion and state – be afraid
Then you get “We have to base our behaviour according to scripture, God’s revealed message,” and hell on earth.
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Ron Paul signs “Personhood Pledge”
“Personhood USA received a signed copy of the pledge along with a statement attempting to clarify his position on the personhood rights of the preborn.”
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Na’ama Margolese and religious coercion in Israel
Grown men spit on an 8-year-old girl and call her a slut.
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Thousands protest gender segregation in Beit Shemesh
On Monday, violent incidents continued as Haredim clashed with police officers and attacked two television news crews.