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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Rushdie to Galloway: ‘Is That a Threat?’
Galloway demanded ‘sensitivity’ about religion, warned of consequences.
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France Keen on ‘Pastafarianisme’ Too
‘Le monde a été créé par un monstre volant formé de spaghettis.’
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Robert Trivers
Behavioural ecology would not have been the same had he not written these papers.
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Domestic Violence in India
Law passes lower house, but minds need to change too.
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Problems With Anti-bullying Policy
Socially skilled bullies say ‘sorry’ then go on to new aggression.
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Vatican Plan to Keep Gays Out of Seminaries
Thus reducing the number of recruits to the priesthood. Oh well.
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The Shakespeare Code. Yawn
How to make Shakespeare trivial and tedious.
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Critical Guide to Unselfcritical Guide
Manne seems reluctant to see any of his opinions as being a debatable point.
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Come Back, Office of Technology Assessment
Gingrich-revolution Republicans dismantled OTA in a stunning act of self-lobotomy.
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Interview With Chris Mooney
The think tank strategy is an attack on university-based scientific inquiry.
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Everybody’s a Relativist
Anti-abortionists cannot claim the absolutist high ground.
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Republican Moron Defunds Condom Program
‘Mr. Coburn, a doctor, has apparently forgotten everything they taught him in medical school.’
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Don’t Teach Just One Controversy, Teach All
Evidence for FSM just as good as for ID so teach that too.
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Who Shifted my Paradigm?
Postmodernist ideas have become a staple of the ID movement.
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Lancet: Homeopathy No Better Than Placebo
Society of Homeopaths says controlled trial is not the way to test homeopathy.
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Child Dies After Alternative Therapy for Autism
Cardiac arrest after chelation therapy to remove heavy metals from the body.
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Amos Oz on the Dream of Non-religious Israelis
We want to live in an enlightened, open and just country, not in some messianic, rabbinic monarchy.
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Dante Made Fun With Trendiness and Slang
Or perhaps not all that fun, suggests Helen Vendler.
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Will There Be an Islamic Republic of Iraq?
Draft of constitution stipulates that no law may contradict Islamic principles.