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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Internationalism of the Fulbright Grant
‘Perhaps we should extend the Fulbright program to Congress.’
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Morris Dickstein on the Return of Realism
In the end, people do want to understand the real world around them.
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Human Rights Watch Calls on Egypt to Investigate
Group says security officers beat protesters during vote on partial electoral reform.
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Demonstrations Over ‘Koran Abuse’
Some in places where woman abuse goes unprotested.
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Oriana Fallaci Sued for ‘Insulting’ Islam
Judge allowed charges; book has expressions ‘unequivocally offensive to Islam.’
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Italian Law Prohibits ‘Outrage to Religion’
‘Some of the things she said are offensive to Islam’ so she has to stand trial.
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Minister for Equal Opportunities is Disquieted
‘Are we really reaching the stage where Ms Fallaci’s ideas are to be considered illegal?’
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Sadism and Terror: the History of the Shoelace
On a Foucauldian creative misreading of barbed wire.
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AUT Rejects Boycott
Boycott opponents called debate curtailed and accusations unfair.
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Academic Freedom not the Property of a Few
Wrong to mix science with politics and to limit academic freedom by boycott.
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Anti-Boycott Vote a Stitch-up?
Who stitched up whom? What about that curtailed debate?
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Comments on AAA Referendum on El Dorado
Leslie Sponsel, Daniel Gross, Joe Watkins, Roy D’Andrade, Thomas Gregor, many more.
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Why Lee Smith’s Doorman Ate His Homework
Dangerous to invest artifacts with too much metaphysical significance.
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Evolution Based not on Science but Ideology
Creationists are scientists and biologists peddle fairytales.
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Mark Your Calendars for Mega Conference
‘World’s greatest minds’ to meet in Lynchburg for creationist jamboree.
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Anthropology and the Enemy Within
What’s wrong with AAA report? A riptide of political righteousness.
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Enough With the Moist and Sympathetic Treatment
Western cringe in face of intolerance of others best corrected by serious Muslims.
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Most Reform Candidates Blocked in Iran
Ruling clerics seek to consolidate their power in the June 17 vote.
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Dawkins’ ‘Creationism: God’s gift to the ignorant’
Attacks creationists’ lack of logic and ‘deceitful misquoting.’ [pdf]