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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Knowledge in the Dock in Kansas
Like handing control of a blood bank over to a cabal of vampires.
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Irshad Manji
No community, no culture, no religion ought to be immune from respecting universality of human rights.
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Pope Talks Nonsense
About ‘natural death.’ Natural death in hospital with feeding tubes, that is.
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Fairy Tales May Teach Girls to be Submissive
Cinderella and Rapunzel may not be best characters to identify with.
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WMD in the Uterus!
The right’s campaign against contraception.
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Necessary to Overcome Hostility to Science
Because greater public involvement doesn’t always produce greater public sophistication.
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John Bayley is not a Cute Old Dodderer
He’s one of the sharpest, shrewdest, funniest critics around, and he has claws.
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Southall Case and Difficulties With Evidence
How does one evaluate evidence, expertise, experience, probability, and the like?
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New Labour, Education, and Educationalists
On black under-achievement in school, special needs, the continuing inequities of the state/private divide.
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Labour to Win With Reduced Majority
Historic third term.
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Election Results
36, 33, 22.
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Galloway Defeats King
Respect candidate accused government of being part of ‘war on Muslims.’
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‘New Scientist’ Reads Fashionable Dictionary
Sarcastic? Us? Never!
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Jonathan Miller Replies to Dylan Evans
Miller and Dawkins do not regard science as a means to an end but as an end itself.
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Hitchens Against Shallow, Demagogic Sectarians
Barry Goldwater vowed to ‘kick Jerry Fallwell in the ass.’
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Altruistic Punishment May Explain Political Behavior
‘Acting the moralist’ stimulates the reward center in the brain.
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Petition for Referendum on Iran’s Constitution
35,000 people have signed despite regime’s efforts to silence them.
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The Crudest Form of Identity Politics
Idea that questioning views is tantamount to discriminating against an identity group.
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‘Stay Muslim, Don’t Vote’
Al Ghurabaa says according to Koran, voting is not allowed.