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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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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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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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Melanie Phillips Misunderstands Epidemiology
Science is all about the error bar, a graphic representation of the uncertainties in the data.
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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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Muslim Domestic Violence Cases are Different
Or so police are told in Victoria, Australia. Muslim women not pleased.
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Iran Fires Diplomats in Purge of Liberals
Ambassadors to London, Paris, Berlin and UN mediated between Iran and Europe over nuclear programme.
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Norm Geras on the Reductions of the Left
Category of ‘imperialism’ so exhausts the thinking of part of the left as to lock it into regrettable positions.
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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.