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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ricoeur, Metaphors, Mailer, Nietzsche, Sinclair
And how entire rooms disappear under piles of books and papers.
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Nick Cohen on Amnesty International
‘Amnesty has a middle-class, Western, complacent, white image’ says Irene Khan.
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Jesus, is This News?
Abysmal US news media ignore real news to do all Jesus all the time.
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Interview With Michael Ruse
The US has not taken the Enlightenment seriously.
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Kansas Bans All Theories From Classroom
Theories never certain, while Bible is, because Bible says so, so there, smarty.
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Kant Predicted Extrasolar Planets
Now NASA has direct evidence of their existence.
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Mugabe Regime Attacks Its Own Citizens
Homes, market stalls, food, woodcarvings smashed, people left to freeze.
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Hitchens Determined to Fight Disgraceful Cringe
It’s everywhere once you notice it.
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Moves to Make Scientific Research Public
The number of open access journals is increasing by the week.
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Dementia of Contemporary Conservative Thinking
Hitler, Mill, Lenin, Dewey, Friedan, Darwin, Nader all in the mix.
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Gary Taylor on James Shapiro’s Shakespeare
‘Shapiro connects areas of scholarship usually kept separate.’
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The Uses of Divisive Partisanship
It is not a virtue to escape thorny questions and postpone larger ones.
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Women Driving Leads to Evil
They could leave home whenever they like and go wherever they want to.
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Philosophy Companion and Future Reviewed
Economist calls Nietzsche and Freud
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What Science, What Europe?
Mots d’ordre are made not to induce thinking and debating but to produce agreement.
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What is Science For?
Simon Singh, Colin Berry, Philip Ball and Tracey Brown offer thoughts.
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Muslim Women’s Group in Malaysia Has Clout
‘Sisters in Islam’ letters to newspapers have caused changes in laws.
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‘Witchcraft’ Abuse Case May be One of Many
Four London charities told BBC News this was not an isolated case.
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‘Exorcisms are part of our culture’
Members of communities which practice exorcism say it is not necessarily harmful.