Philip Morris exploited institional fears of losing research funding in order to preserve financial ties to academic medicine.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Human Tissue Controls Rejected
Plans to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been defeated in the UK House of Lords.
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‘Theory’ Began to Seem Banal
‘Theory’ was seen as a political weapon. Why? No one knows. [link fixed]
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Joys and Sorrows of Independent Scholarship
Irregular income if any, inaccessible libraries; but it’s worth it.
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Eagleton Defends Derrida Against Philistinism
He loosened up such paranoid antitheses as inside and outside.
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Spiked on Derrida
Insistence on multiplicity of meanings more attractive to literary critics than philosophers.