Which then got worse. Typical.… Read the rest
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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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Crusade Movie Not Box Office Dynamite 
May 14th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because of rightward tilt in US, or inaccuracy, or secularism, or something.… Read the rest
Singapore Hangs Man for 1.03 kg of Cannabis
May 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Amnesty International: Singapore may have highest population-relative execution rate in world.… Read the rest
Fractal Relations, Hegemonies, Ethnic Studies
May 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
How English transformed itself into wannabe sociopoliticophilosophy.… Read the rest
Pope Rushes to ‘Beatify’ His Predecessor
May 13th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Usual five year wait for ‘sainthood’ may be skipped.… Read the rest
The Science of Gender and Science
May 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke discuss the subject by discussing the evidence.… Read the rest
New Skeptics’ Circle at Pharyngula
May 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Should keep you busy for a few days.… Read the rest
Ungolden Silence on Golden Rice
May 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Funny how silent the media are about research that offers evidence favorable to GM crops.… Read the rest
Bullshit Guru
May 12th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Surely there is more than one of those.… Read the rest
Church of Fictionology Claims 450 Billion Members
May 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Worship of Kool Aid man encouraged, unlike hidebound old Scientology.… Read the rest
Even Slavery is Culturally Relative to Some
May 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To others, ‘To excuse it as a cultural or religious normality is equally indefensible.’… Read the rest
It Was Julian Wot Won It
May 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lib Dems owe their success to Baggini’s changes of constituency.… Read the rest
Not Satan, Just Guy Who Changed Mind
May 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Goat heads would look nice on wall. No they wouldn’t.… Read the rest
‘Commonweal’ Editor Told ‘You’re Next’
May 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Editor’s forced resignation has shocked Catholic journalists and academics.… Read the rest
Vatican Dismisses Editor of Catholic Magazine
May 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Scholars fear Vatican intends signal: disagreement with church is forbidden.… Read the rest
Revenge of the Republic of Letters on Sartre
May 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He had lots of disgust and no artistic sense of play.… Read the rest
Elaine Showalter on the Academic Novel
May 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sociological interest of pope-crowning-like search for new university president.… Read the rest
Carlin Romano on Pope’s Lack of Indignation
May 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Quickly sealing Ratzinger ‘Hitler Youth’ file with ‘compulsory’ is too simple.… Read the rest
Knowledge in the Dock in Kansas
May 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Like handing control of a blood bank over to a cabal of vampires.… Read the rest
Irshad Manji
May 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No community, no culture, no religion ought to be immune from respecting universality of human rights.… Read the rest
