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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Why Does Sartre Still Matter?
Like no one else, he sought to understand what it means to be responsible.
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Secular Summer Camp
Yes but it’s still summer camp.
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The Boundaries of Reasonable Debate
Tension between prevention of hate-mongering and free speech.
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Don’t Forget to Vote for Greatest Philosopher
Listen to Julian Baggini, Anthony Grayling, Alan Ryan on their picks.
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AAA Votes to Rescind 2002 Report
On allegations of research misconduct by scholars studying the Yanomami.
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Cleveland Health Education Museum Does What?!
Opens doors to ‘faith healer’. Is everyone crazy?
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Anti-smoking Ads Focus on Going Limp
Also compare smokers’ teeth to smelly female genitalia.
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‘Alternative Medicine’ in Africa
Selling expensive vitamins as Aids treatment.
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Social Neuroscience, Belief, the Amygdala
To understand how the brain makes sense of the world.
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Review of Rebecca Goldstein on Gödel
The consequences of Gödel’s ideas, and the conundrum of the man himself.
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Are Philosophers Disembodied Argument Machines?
Carlin Romano on Thomas Nagel on Nicola Lacey on H L A Hart.
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Musharraf Says Mukhtaran Mai Free to Travel
She has her passport back.
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‘Those who are Vulnerable Suffer More’
Asma Jehangir on Pakistan’s judicial system in light of Mukhtaran Mai case.
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Ethnomathematics
Essential tool for ethnochemistry, ethnoengineering, ethnophysics.
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Munchausen’s and Other Syndromes
Expert witnesses, suspect science and dead babies.
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A Culture That Sees Child Abuse Everywhere
Meadow did not single-handedly create abuse-obsession that led to unjust convictions.
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Christian Group Calls Belfast Gay Parade ‘Offensive’
Because they ‘believe what the bible says regarding sodomy.’
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Sikh Protesters Disrupt Sikh Wedding
‘We will use any means whatsoever to stop this happening.’
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Mark Steyn Says Very Silly Thing
‘There aren’t many examples of successful post-religious societies.’