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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Emergency? Sorry, Homeopaths Can’t Help
Sometimes we need medicine that actually works, Julian Baggini notes.
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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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New Elitism Romanticizes the Lumpenproletariat
Fawning on misogynist rappers while scorning ‘Afristocratic’ critics of same.
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John Brockman – Not Just a High Class Pimp
Has helped make Dawkins and Dennett popular; also Sheldrake and Bible code guy.
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Richard Dawkins Interview in Salon
People brought up to believe in faith cannot be persuaded by evidence to change their minds.
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Ward Churchill Allegations ‘Not Frivolous’
University’s research-misconduct committee requests answer to accusations of academic fraud.