Which then got worse. Typical.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Crusade Movie Not Box Office Dynamite
Because of rightward tilt in US, or inaccuracy, or secularism, or something.
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Singapore Hangs Man for 1.03 kg of Cannabis
Amnesty International: Singapore may have highest population-relative execution rate in world.
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Fractal Relations, Hegemonies, Ethnic Studies
How English transformed itself into wannabe sociopoliticophilosophy.
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The Science of Gender and Science
Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke discuss the subject by discussing the evidence.
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Ungolden Silence on Golden Rice
Funny how silent the media are about research that offers evidence favorable to GM crops.
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Church of Fictionology Claims 450 Billion Members
Worship of Kool Aid man encouraged, unlike hidebound old Scientology.
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Even Slavery is Culturally Relative to Some
To others, ‘To excuse it as a cultural or religious normality is equally indefensible.’
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‘Commonweal’ Editor Told ‘You’re Next’
Editor’s forced resignation has shocked Catholic journalists and academics.
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Vatican Dismisses Editor of Catholic Magazine
Scholars fear Vatican intends signal: disagreement with church is forbidden.
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Elaine Showalter on the Academic Novel
Sociological interest of pope-crowning-like search for new university president.
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Carlin Romano on Pope’s Lack of Indignation
Quickly sealing Ratzinger ‘Hitler Youth’ file with ‘compulsory’ is too simple.
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Contradictions in Kansas
ID is science not religion, but evolution is for atheists and ‘secular humanists.’