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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Transferring Power from Author to Reader
Intertextuality is an idea that should be subjected to Dutton’s Razor.
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Sould Intelligent Design be Taught in Schools?
Steve Jones, UCL, and Stephen Meyer, ‘Discovery Institute.’
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Knowledge Wars Rage Over Israel v Palestine
Part clash of genuine entrenched positions, part dishonesty.
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Gödel, Einstein, Heisenberg
Three fundamental scientific results established profound and disturbing limitation.
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Full Many a Plagiarist is Born to Blush Unseen
It’s not only the famous scholars who lift other people’s work.
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Little Bitty Steps to Change Science Standards
The Kansas Board of Education is considering ‘intelligent design’.
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Eagleton Reviews Furedi on Intellectuals
Snap definition of an intellectual: more or less the opposite of an academic.
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An Iconoclastic History of Scientific Endeavour
Review of John Waller’s Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations.
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Blunkett Resigns
Chief Whip flings biography across Commons; gesture seen as expressing frustration.
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Nick Griffin Arrested
BNP leader being questioned by police investigating racism in the organisation.
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BNP Leader Held by Police Over Racist Remarks
Griffin claimed the government was trying to demonise the BNP.
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Children Taught Falsehoods in Sex Education
Federally funded abstinence-only programs get some facts wrong.