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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Creationism On The Rise In UK?
A teacher’s union says it is.
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Religious Pharmacists Refuse to Do Their Jobs
Latest manifestation of the religious right’s growing political reach.
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Illinois Governor Files Emergency Rule
Outlaws precription refusal by pharmacists. ‘No delays. No hassles. No lecture.’
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Republicans Worried About Flight From Reason?
Judge Greer needs bodyguards, Judge Birch reminds Congress of role of Constitution.
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Dr Azam to Speak at Ottawa Press Conference
Azam told the Globe he wants to renew worldwide attention on Kazemi’s case.
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Muslim Thinker Calls For End To Brutal Punishments
Tariq Ramadan has called for a moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning and the death penalty in the Muslim world.
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Krugman on Religious Extremism
Jeb Bush sent cops to seize Schiavo; Judge in case needs armed bodyguards.
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Zahra Kazemi Was Gang-Raped
Doctor who has left Iran tells Die Zeit that Kazemi was raped and tortured.
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Rape, Torture, and Lies
Dr. Shahram Azam found a skull fracture, wounds, bruises all over Kazemi’s body.
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Kazemi was Tortured and Raped
Doctor’s account contradicts Iran’s official position that death was caused by a fall.
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Yet Another Twist in Schiavo Case
Appeals court agrees to hear petition to re-insert feeding tube.
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Mugabe: Opposition Victory Will Not Be Tolerated
Robert Mugabe called the Zimbabwean opposition “traitors” yesterday.
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BBC Governors Reject Springer Opera Complaints
Dissenter disagreed that artistic significance outweighed offence caused.
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DFW Science Museum to Show ‘Volcanoes’
Reverses bad decision to heed complaints of evolutionphobic whiners.
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Armageddon is Fun and Entertaining
Why does Jesus decide to wear a dress while riding a horse? And other puzzles.
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Fear of ‘Playing God’ on Only One Side of Equation
Ignoring patient wishes for no heroic measures is perfectly all right.
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What’s Up With Harvard? And Larry Summers?
Is it all a ‘cleavage between coastal elites and certain mainstream values’?
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IMAX Nixes Darwin for Fear of ‘Offending’
Decision also affects science museums.
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Trivers’ Rhetoric of Maximum Affront
Trivers’s legendary papers of the early 1970s changed many disciplines.