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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Roger Scruton
Not an apologia but a reminder.
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Let’s Not Share
Going to a poetry workshop when you hate workshops, groups, groupthink…
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Should Philosophers Review Philosophy?
And historians history, novelists novels? Or should they swap?
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Pope Seeks Promise of Immunity
Texas lawsuit accuses him of conspiring to cover up molestation of three boys by seminarian.
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From the Ridiculous to the More Ridiculous
Australian witch sues under religious hatred law.
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Controversy Over US Drug Adverts
Over-selling the benefits and under-selling the risks.
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Houzan Mahmoud on Women in Iraq
Women in Iraq are being pushed into a corner and the constitution is likely to keep them trapped there.
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12% of Iraqis Approve Female Equality
69% say women’s rights okay unless they contradict Islam.
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The Fury of Creationists Scorned
Re-fighting the Scopes trial eighty years later.
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Slavoj Zizek Says Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
Is not the ‘war on terror’ proof that ‘terror’ is the antagonistic Other of democracy?
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Scott McLemee on Political Theory Daily Review
Volume of material logged each day suggests it is run by a collective of gnomes.
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Wal-Mart and ‘Family Values’
Women can be president, Jon Stewart, no; O’Reilly, Left Behind, Protocols of Elders of Zion, yes.
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Different Version of Menezes Shooting Leaked
No padded jacket, no vaulting the barrier, no fleeing the police.
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Elephants to Return to Wyoming?
Who knew they’d left?
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Evangelical Scientists on ‘Intelligent Falling’
Scientists from Center For Faith-Based Reasoning say long-held ‘theory of gravity’ is flawed.
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Majority of UK Muslims Follow a Liberal Islam
And do not consider the MCB representative, says Dr Shaaz Mahboob.
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Replies to Hattersley
‘Taking any religion seriously is in nobody’s real interests.’
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Ian Hacking on Steven Rose on the Brain
Consciousness, memory, phantom trees, Locke, Damasio, Leibniz.
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Three Books on Truth
Simon Blackburn, Harry Frankfurt, Laura Penny.