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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Wot’s the Big Idea
Goodhart, Brockman, Greenfield, Bentley on Sen. Also Bunting, Klein. Oh well.
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Simon Singh Reviews Steve Jones’s Single Helix
‘In addition to the amusing and sinister essays, there are the angry ones, which are my real favourites.’
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Incompetent Design Maybe? Infernal?
Incomplete?
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Dawkins Does God for Channel 4
The God Delusion and the Virus of Faith.
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‘Gay Magazine in Race Row’
Magazine of Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association criticized for comments.
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Colin McGinn Goes to the Movies
‘The highbrow and lowbrow do daily battle in this man.’
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Noah’s Ark [Creationist] Zoo Farm
Note the cross on the donkey’s back. Think that’s an accident? Think again.
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Evidence for Jesus Hauled into Court
Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus are all hearsay. Next?
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Gordon Brown Quotes Gertrude Himmelfarb
Why choose a ferociously neocon revisionist history of the Enlightenment?
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The Edge Question for 2006
What is your dangerous idea? Dawkins, Dennett, Pinker and many more.
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Turkey Admits Pamuk Trial Not an Image-booster
Laws that limit freedom of expression may be changed.
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Top Science Stories of 2005
Climate science and tipping point, bird flu, ID, chimpanzee genome, more.
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Einstein as a Philosopher of Science
Philosophical habit of mind had a profound effect on the way he did physics.
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Cardinal Pitches Fit About ‘Family Life’
Which really ought to be made mandatory for ‘the good of society’.
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Readers Retort to Cardinal O’Connor
Objecting to fundamentalists who hijack virtue and morality for their own pious, self-righteous reasons.
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When Facts Change, Change Your Mind
Marketplace of ideas does not work because large parts of the audience want comfort rather than truth.
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Paradoxes of Postmodernism
Truth-skeptics have to be taught to see that disguised fiction can be dangerous.
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US Failure to Invest in Scientific Research
A creeping crisis caused by a pattern of short-term thinking and a lack of long-term investment.
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Bomb in Indonesia Kills Eight People
The bomb exploded at a stall selling pork in a largely Christian part of the town.