Officials say rioting is also about youths simply ‘having a go’ at the police. And women on crutches.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Melanie Phillips Misunderstands Epidemiology
Science is all about the error bar, a graphic representation of the uncertainties in the data.
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Recent Communique From Animal Liberation Front
‘Associate with HLS and we will ruin your life.’
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Cass Sunstein Takes a Look at Alito’s Dissents
He is often more conservative than his colleagues.
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We Live in 2005, not 905
Danish cartoonists dare to tease the prophet. Marches ensue.
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Quantum Mechanics Must be Wrong
Or maybe Mills got his math wrong, or maybe his critics did, or maybe not.
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Guy Takes 15 Years to Start Questioning Moonism
Still, better late than never.
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Cardinal Says ‘Faithful’ Should Listen to Science
But then demands that science listen to religion as ‘an expert voice’. Expert in what?
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House Republicans Work to Cut Food Stamps
Must pay for upper bracket tax cuts somehow.
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Paul Gross on Science Standards [pdf]
Draft Science Framework for the
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Scott McLemee on the Lisbon Eearthquake
Voltaire was sarcastic, Rousseau was unabomberish, Kant pondered gas pockets.
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The Electromagnetic Chaos Eliminator
Also magnetic toe rings, crocodile protein peptide, balancing vibration.
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Letters to Guardian on Chomsky Interview
From Chomsky, and Kemal Pervanic, who survived the Omarska concentration camp.
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McMartin Preschool Case: ‘I Lied”
If he gave an answer they didn’t like, they asked again until he gave the right one.
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E O Wilson: Can Biology Do Better Than ‘Faith’?
Rapprochement between science and religion may be neither possible nor desirable.
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Turtles? Red Bracelets? Xenu? Holy Water?
Lionel Blue maundering on Thought for the Day looks like golden age of secularism.
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French Hijab Ban Widely Accepted
Bizarre headline bears no relation to article.
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Eve Garrard Reviews Michael Ignatieff
Rights are far more ethically significant than a useful device to ensure that executive power is not abused.
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Jon Pike Reviews Ted Honderich
‘book ought to have done very serious damage to his reputation as one of Britain’s leading philosophers.’
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Muslim Domestic Violence Cases are Different
Or so police are told in Victoria, Australia. Muslim women not pleased.