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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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An Epistemologically Instructive Experience
Suave and sinuous prose now preening and overelaborate; fearless cheekiness now truculent bravado.
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More Scary Doesn’t Mean More Likely
When that supervolcano erupts we’ll be at the mercy of bullies with melanomas.
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Papa Boys Whoop it up at Rome Bash
The new religion of celebrity worship at work.
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Andrea Dworkin 1946-2005
Feminist activist and writer.
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Victim of Bullying Sues Posh School
A school tradition for boys to hit with cricket stumps, billiard cues, belts.
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Postal Voting Makes Intimidation Easier
Particularly of women by men, Nick Cohen points out.
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Quebec Government: Sharia Out of the Question
`Door is closed and will remain closed,’ justice minister says.
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Malaria, DDT, Africa, the Environment
Is DDT the best way to prevent malaria?
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Roger Kimball on ‘On Bullshit’
Bullshitter as performance artist, keener to make an impression than tell the truth.
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Lynn Margulis on Ernst Mayr
An appreciation of Harvard’s visionary of modern evolutionary synthesis.
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Time to Get Really Scared
When a Senator excuses murderous violence against judges as understandable reaction to their decisions.
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Legislator and Philosopher Discuss Florida Bill
‘Dogmatic’ professors who don’t want to teach ID…
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Toynbee Nails Papal Funeral Travesty
‘With its ban on condoms the church has caused the death of millions.’
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Anti-Japanese Protests Spread to South China
Japan’s disputes with China and South Korea rooted in differences over the past.
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Many Chinese Say Textbooks Whitewash Occupation
Nanjing massacre of 250,000 called ‘incident.’
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History Protests at Japanese Embassy in Beijing
Japan approved school books which China says gloss over Japanese atrocities.
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New History Textbook Prompts Rock-throwing
Truth in history does matter then…?
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Japan Urged Calm in Book Protest
Ambassador said patriotic education in China may have caused some anti-Japanese feelings.
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What One Thing Should Everyone Learn About Science?
Uncertainty, natural selection, responsibility instead of prayer.