Taking the bus not as ‘a small act of courage and defiance’ but to go from Victoria to Green Park.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Bin Laden Appeals to the ‘Devout and Dissatisfied’
He ‘sounds like somebody who would be a very high-minded and welcome voice in global politics.’
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Žižek! the Musical
Scott McLemee talks to Astra Taylor about her film and popularizing the unpopularizable.
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Necessity, Military Tribunals, and the Law
Milton Whiggishly said ‘necessity is ever the tyrant’s plea.’
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Cognitive Science and Moral Reasoning
Cognitive science can describe how people reason, but not say how they ought to.
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Academic Ethics, Accuracy, Retribution
A scholar points out numerous mistakes in Kierkegaard biography, and is censured. Why?
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Collagen Using Skin of Executed Prisoners
‘I was very shocked that western countries can make such a big fuss about this.’
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Opinion Poll on Iraqi Constitution
84% of sample support women’s rights.
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Meera Nanda on Pseudoscience in India
Radical disconnect between science superpower and superstitions pervading all levels of society.
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Legal Implications of JAMA Study on Fetal Pain
Providing misinformation to patients is medical malpractice.
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Newsflash – No Sharia in Ontario!
“There will be no Shariah law in Ontario. There will be no religious arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians.”
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Atwood, Barlow, Callwood Join Protest
In open letter the group said protest is about keeping religious matters separate from state.
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Gender Equality, Gay Rights a ‘Charade’
Madeleine Bunting says concern for gay rights and gender equality is ‘moral grandstanding.’
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Simon Schama: Bush as Archbishop of Washington
Comparisons with 9/11 only reinforce differences between what the two calamities said about America.
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Rushdie: Let the Enlightenment Begin
Nine thoughts on reform.
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The Academic Novel and its Addressivity
Its wot? English teachers writing about each other, that’s what.
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Academics With Asperger’s
When does eccentricity become mental illness?
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Compassionate Conservatism in Utero
JAMA article on fetal pain awareness irritates anti-abortionists.
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Sociologists Question Extent of Looting in N.O.
‘There was no evidence for a lot of what was being reported.’
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Nick Cohen on Suckers for Fashionable Nonsense
Homeopathic dowser healers, coffee enemas, feng-shui, expensive water.