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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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Francophobia Cool in US
Don’t speak French, don’t have French relatives, don’t eat or drink French, don’t think French.
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The Edge Annual Question
What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?
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NY Times: a Few Answers to Edge Question
Dawkins, Sapolsky, Harris, Zimbardo, LeDoux, Humphrey.
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Philip Stott on Voltaire and Earthquake Theology
Lisbon challenged both religion and enlightenment beliefs in an ordered and predictable universe.
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Burma Death Toll Much Higher Than Officials Say
Government sealed off parts of coast after tsunami, fueling public suspicions.
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Geography Lesson and Girl, 10, Save 100
Knowing what the start of a tsunami looks like can save lives.
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Dawkins on the Murderous God
It could be more consoling to realize that no malicious being slaughtered 125,000 people in South Asia.
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How to Be the World’s Largest Corporation
Underpay, overwork, bully, spy on, and discriminate against your work force.
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Good Things and Bad Things in Book World
Richard and Judy, Foyles cheers; Random House, supermarkets boos.
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Westboro Baptist Church Thanks God for Tsunami
Because some of the Swedes who died may have been gay.
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The Conflict Between Religion and Free Speech
‘Murder in the Community Centre’ – it doesn’t sound quite right, somehow.
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Be Careful Not to Get Too Much Education
Uncensored exposure to science, philosophy, literature ruins ‘values.’
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Royal Society Plans to Put Archive on Display
‘a unique collection charting the history of science.’
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The Independent: Year’s Best Books
A list of three or four thousand to choose from.
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Florida Medical Professors Resist Chiropractic School
And create parody map with Bigfoot Institute, Tarot Studies and similar.
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Angry Fathers Resort to Intimidation of Court Staff
Threats; publication of names; rotten meat and maggots sent to office.
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A Benevolent God? Not Very Plausible…
Perhaps compassion is the only meaning to be found.
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How Could a Benevolent Omnipotent God Do This?
A reminder from god that he created the world and can destroy the world.
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Southall Black Sisters Support Behzti
‘As Asian women of Sikh, Muslim and Hindu backgrounds, we have been struggling for many years against attempts to silence our voices’
