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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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On Vivian Gornick and the Pursuit of the Ideal
‘Ideas, dolly, ideas. Without them, life is nothing. With them, life is everything.’
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Ethics of Amputation by Choice
Two Australian philosophers exploring the phenomenon of amputee wannabes.
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Televangelist in Nigeria Furious at Tiny Payoff
Promised miracles, expected 6 million people, got 1 million, had hissy fit.
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Islamic Group Cross at Transvestite Beauty Contest
Leader worries Allah might send second tsunami to punish.
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Meadow’s Odds on Double Cot Death ‘Not Right’
Mistake to assume each SIDS death is independent when calculating odds.
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Supreme Court Ruling on Ten Commandments
Barred in court, allowed in park at state Capitol.
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Vote for Hume
Despite failure to die young or smoke Gauloises, he’s Topp.
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Review of Simon Blackburn on Truth
‘Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy’ one example of misuse of ‘facts.’
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Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy by Proxy
Doctors who make up illnesses in order to draw attention to themselves.
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Zimbabwe’s Secret Famine
Aids, starvation, depopulation of cities sending tens of thousands to a silent death.
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Sunil Khilnani Reviews Amartya Sen
Sen asserts his belief in what he calls the ‘sovereignty of reason.’
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Ethics of Amputating Healthy Limbs
Two Australian philosophers say okay, surgeons say not okay.
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The US as a Pool of Cheap Labour
Millions of low-wage workers who have all but lost the right to organise.
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Jesus College for Future Politicians
Who gloat that non-Christians ‘shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.’
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Entitled to Own Opinions But Not Own Facts
Maura Moynihan disputes Ed Klein’s account of her father and his successor.
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Pascal’s Birthday
‘…apart from his religion he believes in so very little.’
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Sartre’s Paradox of Freedom
We’re not free to be not free.
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Co-operative Bank Bars Christian Group
‘Christian Voice’ asked to close its account on the grounds of its anti-homosexuality.
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Arms Trade Undermines Poverty Relief
G8 leaders under pressure to stop the arms trade with repressive regimes.