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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Year’s Top Ten Unfounded Health Scares
Wonky risk assessment…
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Sould Intelligent Design be Taught in Schools?
Steve Jones, UCL, and Stephen Meyer, ‘Discovery Institute.’
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Allan Hollinghurst on Richard Wollheim’s Memoir
The philosopher’s childhood experience described with Proustian subtlety and thoroughness.
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Worries Over ‘Legalised Euthanasia’
MPs reject living will amendment.
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Knowledge Wars Rage Over Israel v Palestine
Part clash of genuine entrenched positions, part dishonesty.
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Scientific Breakthrough of the Year Awards
Discovery that water once flowed on Mars is the winna.
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Interview with Asne Seierstad
From the bookseller of Kabul to the Iraq war.
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Shark Cartilage Cancer ‘Cure’
A triumph of marketing and pseudoscience over reason.
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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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Book Jeremiads Have Been Around for Centuries
So they must be fun to read.
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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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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.
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Review of Dictionary
Chris Williams on bad writing as an art form.
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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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Polly Toynbee on Bad Company
The natural allies of the rationalists have decamped.