Leading scientists cite persistent problems in science education generally
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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Poetry is Itself a Way of Happening
George Szirtes on the need to love and distrust language.
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Christopher Hart on Grayling on Descartes
Descartes one of the more appealing philosophers: so human, quarrelsome and frequently bone idle.
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Which Asian Values?
Are civil rights and rights to material well-being in tension? What would Confucius say?
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Corporate Sponsors Afraid to Back Darwin Exhibition
Creationists keep gaining influence in US.
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‘Identity’ is Crowd-thought
Philip Pullman, Monica Ali, Philip Hensher and Salman Rushdie on religion, identity, communalism.
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The Word ‘Community’ Trips off Many Tongues
It is the wholly artificial creation of a single entity by those who live outside it.
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Judge Sentenced for Refusing to Work Under Crucifix
Says religious symbols have no place in court of law, cites constitutional provisions on human rights.
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Cover the ‘Pudendal’ Nature of Women
Which may be everything except one eye.
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Muslim Girls in France Get it From Both Directions
Racism, unemployment and deprivation, and harassment and violence in their own communities.
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Blair Seeks to Appease ‘the Muslim Community’
By using phrase ‘the community’ three times in two short sentences.
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‘Deacon Joe’ Molested Nearly Every Boy
Catholic missionary in Alaska village ruined many lives. Church disavows responsibility.
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Austria Considers Putting Irving on Trial
Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt in 2000 for calling him a Holocaust denier in 1994 book.
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How Irving Fought and Lost
Judge in trial called him a falsifier of history.
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Richard Evans Report a Key Element in Irving Trial
Distorted and mistranslated documents, discredited testimony, falsified historical statistics.
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Pinochet Says God Will Forgive the Mass Murder
‘Everything that I did, all that I carried out, all the problems I had, I dedicate to God.’ How touching.
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What bin Laden Wants the US to Do
Convert to Islam, ditch constitution, abolish banks, jail homosexuals, sign Kyoto treaty. How touching.
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Steven Pinker on General Science Education
General education in science should stimulate a worldview grounded in our best understanding of reality.
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Todd Gitlin on the Authority of Anti-authority
Within any movement against improper authority there evolves an idea of proper authority
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Thucydides for the Common Reader
Thucydides belongs on list of things to be sure to read before dying.