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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Debate on ‘Faith’ Schools
British Humanist Association education officer debates Bishop of Guildford.
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Run to P.O.: Stamp ‘Offensive’ to Hindus is Off
Royal Mail now recognizes it should have consulted (read groveled) further.
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Henri Mensonge Challenges the Coital Cogito
He out-Foucaulted Foucault, out Derridaed Derrida, and out-Deleuzed-and-Guattaried Deleuze and Guattari.”
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Amartya Sen on Science, Argument and Scepticism
Dismayed that links between heterodoxy and scientific creativity get so little attention.
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Navid Shahzad on Amartya Sen
Sen continues to stretch his prodigious talent as professor of both philosophy and economics at Harvard.
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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Winning Election in Liberia
Has 59% of vote. Inexplicably, BBC uses epithet in headline.
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Chris Mooney on Abductive Reasoning
Susan Clancy investigates how otherwise sane people come to accept abduction accounts.
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Ziauddin Sardar on Hizb ut-Tahrir
The caliphate of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s vision can be established only by doing violence to the rest of the world.
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E O Wilson on Biology or Religion
The formulation of intelligent design is a default argument advanced in support of a non sequitur.
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Legal Equality and de Facto Racism
It is not the law that decides every aspect of daily life: people do. They’re not always colour-blind.
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Kansas Board of Education Blows It
Rules 6 to 4 that science classes in public schools should include teaching of ID.
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Clean Sweep of ID Proponents
Repudiation of first school district in US to order introduction of ID in a science class curriculum.
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No Intifada, No Cause, Just Gang Stuff
Once two or three districts had their night on the news, every other quartier wanted to follow.
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Three Muslims Killed in Hindu Attack on Village
Why? Rumours that cows had been slaughtered for the Islamic Eid-al-Fitr celebrations.