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.
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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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Reeve in Stem Cell Advert
An appeal from beyond the grave.
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UN Debate on Cloning Draws to a Close
Two different resolutions are on the table.
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Dark Ages Return in Pennsylvania
Intelligent Design on the science curriculum.
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Derrida and Psychoanalysis
Derrida put the text on the couch.
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Nannying is Not Such a Bad Thing
Julian Baggini on freedom, Britney and papal infallibility.
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Derrida-ing Then not Derrida-ing
‘Theory’ as shibboleth.
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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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Hannah Arendt Was Not Entirely Wrong
Not even as wrong as this article claims.
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The Scottish Enlightenment
Conservative and radical at the same time.
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More on Derrida
Reading familiar works against the grain.
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Anti-Semitism at Frankfurt Book Fair?
Holocaust denial in Frankfurt? Uh oh.
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Eagleton Defends Derrida Against Philistinism
He loosened up such paranoid antitheses as inside and outside.
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Torn Between Contempt and Hilarity
Nicholas Lezard approves Francis Wheen’s attack on unreason.
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The Modernity of Muslim Fundamentalism
The French are better at political anatomy.
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Spiked on Derrida
Insistence on multiplicity of meanings more attractive to literary critics than philosophers.
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Review of Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale
Seeing the world in a fresh, exhilarating way.
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Another Satirical Dictionary
A bit long-winded…