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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Religion is Actually a Work of Art
Oh really? On what planet?
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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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David Horowitz
Is it about the ideas or the funding?
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The Other 1905 Revolution – Einstein’s
Why part molasses part sand, part soup part pile of shot?
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Mythic History and WWII
The effort to create some new myths fell foul of the shocking reality.
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Can You Say ‘Oxymoron’?
Zimbabwe re-elected to UN Human Rights Commission.
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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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Women in the Middle East
There are a lot of books on the subject, and people are reading them.
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Nick Cohen on a Culture of Sickly Revelation
Privacy? Wozzat?
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Michael Ruse Scolds Biologists for Being Atheists
Because it pisses off creationists.
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Ward Churchill Allegations ‘Not Frivolous’
University’s research-misconduct committee requests answer to accusations of academic fraud.
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Churchill Defenders Miss the Point
The issue is fraud, not freedom of expression.
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Nice Timing, Guys
Churchill has exams to grade, rallies to attend.
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It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
Ivory-billed woodpecker is not extinct after all. Champagne all around.
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Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
One male spotted so far. Let’s hope there are more.
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Birdwatchers Blub
And who can blame them?