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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Pastor Arrested Over ‘Child Witchcraft’ Cruelty
Allegedly advised parents to beat devil out of them or send them to DRC so that he could pray for them to be killed.
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Eyebrows Raised at Public Order Act
And investigation of Sacranie for merely stating an opinion.
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Johann Hari in Praise of Richard Dawkins
Only as you watch the film do you realise how rare it is to hear arguments against organised superstition.
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Maori Community and Fire Brigade Community
‘Memorandum will help the Maori community and the fire brigade understand each other’s cultures.’
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Oxford Police Horse Homophobia Case Dropped
Student said to officer, ‘Excuse me, do you realise your horse is gay?’ Bystanders were offended.
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Horowitz Admits Not Having Evidence
Says criticism is nit-picking, and that ‘everybody knows’.
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Criticism of ‘Academic Bill of Rights’
Call for ‘other viewpoints’ could invite Holocaust deniers or creationists to demand equal time.
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Hundreds Killed in Hajj Stampede
Bottleneck happened near stone walls representing the devil that are pelted with stones.
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Yet More Guardian Mush About ‘Faith’
Familiar, woolly, starry-eyed.
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Sacranie Under Investigation
Perhaps he said something in the hearing of someone who might be distressed thereby.
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Rochdale Council Sued Over ‘Satanic Abuse’ Case
Social services thought they had uncovered a group of ritual devil worshippers.
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Satanic Abuse Panic in Rochdale
A judge ruled there was no evidence, but the children were taken away all the same.
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Fundamentalism and Freedom
Life in a cardboard box is essentially liberating for women.
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Richard Dawkins is not a Great Fan of Religion
‘We treat it with a politically correct reverence that we don’t accord to any other institution.’
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Politicians Commit Terminological Inexactitudes
Julian Baggini on the morality of lying.
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We Are Not Who We Think We Are
Inability to predict shifts of Supreme Court justices reflects fundamental attribution error.
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Ishtiaq Ahmed on What Intellectuals Should Do
Concerned intellectuals must see to it that open debate and the right to criticise is never compromised.
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‘Balance’ Doesn’t Always Get Us Closer to the Truth
Our mission should be to rid our students of automatic or blinkered thinking.
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What Kind of Corruption Scandal Is It?
K Street cash subsidizes faith-based politics; abolition of inheritance tax becomes a sacrament.
