Important for nomos to be anti-anti-Mormon – and contrariwise.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Can Epistemology Help?
Philosopher debunks Kentucky-fried rat and other urban and rural legends.
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Bulletin on Women’s Rights in Middle East
Unequal divorce law in Egypt, law on honour killing in Pakistan, and more.
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Where is the Argument to be Found?
Philosopher reviews Harold Bloom book on wisdom, asks questions.
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Blunkett Faces Revolt Over Religious Hatred Law
MPs, legal experts, comedians and others point out obvious flaws in idea.
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Rowan Atkinson at Index on Censorship
Is a tolerant society one which tolerates injustices simply because they are perpetrated in the name of religion?
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And Don’t Mention the Deity
Hollywood adaptation of Philip Pullman’s trilogy will omit anti-religious sentiments.
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With Socrates on the Sofa
Or Kant on the couch, Hume on the hideabed, Locke on the loveseat.
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Stupid Dino Tricks
A visit to Kent Hovind’s Dinosaur Adventure Land in Florida.
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He Sounded White Over the Phone
BNP hires black DJ for party; revellers feel unable to speak views openly; party a dud.
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When Diversity Meets Islamism
And when tolerance meets violence against women.
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New Offense of ‘Inciting Religious Hatred’
Via words that are abusive, insulting, likely to stir up racial hatred.
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Were Enlightenment Deists Paper Tigers?
Was deism a mere bogey invented by bishops to frighten waverers?
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Wot’s Proactive Translatology?
Discoursal practice implies social commitment. Etc. [link fixed]
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Well Done, Bladders
Rowan Atkinson and others criticise religious hatred clause.
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Researcher Removes Name From Prayer Study
Specialist takes name off controversial study of prayer’s effect on fertility.
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Critical Whiteness Studies – the Introduction
High ratio of words to anything said. Repetition augments word count.
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Women Kept Out of Sport by Islamic Group
Another victory for the confinement and frustration of women.
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Forthright Editorial on Prevention of Female Sport
Bangladesh Independent rebukes ‘a few bigoted elements.’ [scroll down]
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Between Right-wing Extremists and Islamic Fundamentalists
‘If you are a girl…It is always fear and fear and fear.’