Why does mayor talk to fundamentalists but not liberal Muslims or victims of Islamist repression?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Fatuity Knows no Bounds Department
Humans pay someone actual money to talk to their pets.
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Muslim Schools Promote Education for Girls
Chairman of Association of Muslim Schools disagrees with Ofsted chief’s comments.
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The Pretty Woman Theory of Prostitution
Takes Paglia’s claim that prostitutes are not victims but outlaws at face value.
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Interview with Astronomer Royal Martin Rees
‘One idea many of us are pursuing is a grander concept of the physical world.’
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Center for Inquiry for Secularism and Science
US universities need counterweight to Campus Crusade for Christ.
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Therapy for Addiction to Therapy
Making addiction an identity is not all that therapeutic.
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Metaphors Comfort in Face of Big Scientific Ideas
Making figures of speech out of our problems is not the way to solve them.
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Eric Hobsbawm in Defence of History
Not true that ‘my truth is as valid as yours, whatever the evidence.’
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The Compassion of Fahrenheit Jesus?
Mike and Mel pair to make buddy-road-docudrama about flagellation of audience.
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Spacecraft Lands on Titan, a Moon of Saturn
First landing on another planet’s moon; only moon in solar system with a substantial atmosphere.
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Letter to Guardian Condemns Murder of Hadi Saleh
He fought for a democratic, peaceful and federal Iraq.
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Livingstone to be Reported to Watchdog
After calling assembly member dishonest and Islamophobic.
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‘The Transgressive Pleasure of Critique’
Oliver Kamm on misreading Shakespeare.
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WHO Reports Polio Cases Spreading in 2004
Boycott of vaccine in northern Nigeria caused spread to neighboring countries.
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Nigeria, Sudan Vow to Stop Polio Spread
Nigeria had 763 cases, India 129, Sudan 112.
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WHO and African Health Ministers Discuss Polio
Internal conflicts hamper immunization and monitoring.
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Bad Timing For Livingstone’s Defense of al Qaradawi
Who says tsunami victims deserve punishment from Allah.
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Woman Pardoned in Iranian Rape Case
Be raped or kill the rapist: either way you get the death penalty.
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Shirin Ebadi Summoned to Court
Lawyer and human rights activist tells BBC summons is unlawful.