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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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‘Biblical Values’ Guy Interviews Peter Singer
Ew, ick, gross, sex with corpses, how wicked.
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Life on Planet Charles
Lecturing cancer doctors on Gerson therapy, struggling to live on £11.9m, scolding uppity proles.
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Studies on Politcal Affiliation in US Universities
Dems outnumber Reps 9 to 1 at Stanford & Berkeley even in professional schools.
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Philosophy Less Messy Than Chemistry
Steven Poole reviews Wittgenstein’s Beetle and Morality Matters.
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David Aaronovitch on Loony Conspiracy Theories
Triple, quadruple, quintuple bluffs – no explanation too tortured to believe.
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Alex Callinicos on Derrida
Derrida hoped to open a space in which the marginalised and excluded could speak for themselves.
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Michael Shermer on Prayer Research
Lack of controls, outcome differences, operational definitions.
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Raymond Gaita Defends Liberal Education
Nicholas Negroponte suggests ‘Get over it.’
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Honour Killings
The Met is reviewing 117 murder cases from the last decade.
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The Paris Review Interviews Online
The DNA of literature: 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews.
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BHL Moults Philosophic and Literary Fluff
From the mills of theory to the virtue of facts and the danger of ideology.
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Review of True to Life: Why Truth Matters
To care about truth is to be vigilant about belief.
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What is wrong with everybody nowadays?
What makes people with no natural abilities think they should be kings?
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‘Socialist’ Blames van Gogh for his own Murder
‘…the perpetrators feel there is no viable alternative in this racist climate.’
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Charles Has Good Old Hissy Fit
Naughty ‘learning culture’ tells people they can become more competent heads of state…
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What Else Would a Hereditary Monarch Think?
Charles has no abilities and he works 1.5 days a week. So what’s his point?
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A Much Bigger Charles in Many Ways
Ministers put the boot in, cheer each other on, regarding Prince’s memo.
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Creationism, Democracy, Science and Reason
There are some tensions there.
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Schools Must ‘Share Burden’ of Unruly Students
Disruptive students should be dispersed to combat the creation of sink schools.