Said decision to delay approval of morning after pill not scientifically based.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Eighteenth Century is a Portal to Postmodernism
No, really, it is.
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Updates from New Orleans Times-Picayune
On the scene.
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Nightmare in New Orleans
Waters rise, 80% of city underwater, break in levee on Lake Pontchartrain.
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Broken Levees Continue to Flood New Orleans
People stranded on roofs, shelters evacuated, roads closed, Biloxi devastated.
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Cass Sunstein on the Precautionary Principle
Status quo bias and the way emotion can overwhelm rational faculties.
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Roger Scruton on Maurice Cowling
Irony as moral seriousness that would not allow itself the luxury of illusions.
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Michael Ignatieff as Canadian PM?
Ignatieff returns to Toronto from Harvard to teach human rights.
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UN Envoy Says US Harming Ugandan Aids Fight
Says Washington pressures Uganda to emphasize abstinence more than condoms.
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Republicans Demand Scientists’ Papers
Influential scientists say request for materials going back decades looks like intimidation.
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UN Official Accuses Bush Over Condom Policy
Cutting funding for condoms could damage fight against Aids in Uganda.
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Indonesia Launches Record Anti-Polio Drive
WHO warns virus could spread to Malaysia, China and the Philippines.
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Salman Rushdie on Today [audio]
The rise of fundamentalism in Kashmir, religious hatred law, the MCB, ‘faith’ schools.
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Stupid Headline, Stupid Subhead
‘Men cleverer than women’ – all men cleverer than all women? No. Stupid headline.
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Waters Rising in New Orleans
Gulf Coast, Mississippi after one of the most devastating storms ever to hit US.
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‘Death to Bitches’ in Guatemala
Women are murdered and mutilated daily, and thought to deserve it.
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No Protection, No Justice: Women in Guatemala
Amnesty International: ‘Many women and girls in Guatemala live with gender-based violence.’
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Daniel Dennett Hunts for the Science of ID
Saying ‘You haven’t explained everything yet’ is not a competing hypothesis.
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Christian Schools Sue University of California
UC admissions authorities refuse to certify high school science courses that teach creationism.
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China Makes Gender Equality National Policy
But it will take more than legislation to change deeply ingrained attitudes towards women.