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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Police to Investigate ‘Witchcraft’ Child Abuse
Child welfare groups warn there may be dozens of such cases.
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Ordeal Lasted Months and was Nearly Fatal
Beaten with a stiletto shoe, cut with a kitchen knife, starved for days at a time.
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Meanwhile, in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen
Fiction about Schrödinger: physics unconvincing as narrative.
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Shaima Rezayee or Shabina Begum
Cultural imperialism analysis forbids people to change.
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Murder of Afghan TV Presenter Shaima Rezayee
Two months after complaints from religious hardliners got her fired.
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Rezayee Got Flak From Conservative Mullahs
Two of her brothers being questioned in police detention about her murder.
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Reporters Without Borders Voice Shock
Rezayee murder shows press freedom still threatened in Afghanistan.
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UNESCO Head Condemns Rezayee Murder
Murder cannot be considered an instrument for cultural policy.
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A Woman’s Life
Deprived of five years of school, fired for man’s comment, shot in head.
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Why Intelligent Design Isn’t
Biologist Allen Orr on Behe and Dembski.
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Full Transcript of Hitchens Brothers
Much longer.
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Ability to Force Bibles on Ill People Threatened
It’s outrageous, political correctness gone mad, Gideon pest exclaims.
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Cult Studs Textbooks Reviewed
Cultural studies often called academic in-joke irrelevant to anyone else.
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John Mullan on Raymond Williams
He was arguing with what he took ‘to be the official English culture.’
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Smithsonian Disavows ‘Intelligent Design’
James Randi and science blogs asked questions.
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Aftermath of AUT Boycott Vote
Sue Blackwell and Steven Rose say fight is not over.
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Hitchens, Greer on Start the Week [audio]
Hitchens talks of Galloway and LFIQ debate.
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Why Did Dickens and Andersen Friendship Sour?
Probably because Andersen kept eating all the toast.
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Why Could Democrats Not Save the Estate Tax?
Because they kept moving the goalposts rightwards.