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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Aaronovitch Says Give It Up
Life and death? Civil rights? Effete urbanites? Undemocratic? No on all counts.
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The Ethics of History
Six Indian historians on the need for skepticism, courage, truth-seeking.
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Confusion Run Riot
Reporter seems to have confused revisionism and critical thinking with postmodernism.
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Prince Charles’ Slow Reaction Time
Roy Hattersley says future monarch might want to have a word with his friends.
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Selective Hostility to Bias and Judgmentalism
Eve Garrard on the real reason for not using the T word.
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Knowing the Accusation is False is Traumatic Too
‘Why couldn’t I withstand the pressure? I still search for that moment I gave in.’
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Holy War Against the Infidel, love, Taliban
Taliban leaves ‘night letters’ to intimidate voters.
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Banned in Lebanon
Catholic leaders call Da Vinci Code offensive to Christians, so it’s off shelves.
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Matt Ridley Reviews Richard Dawkins
A philosopher of evolutionary process, explaining bodies as vehicles for propagation of genes.
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Alexander Chancellor on Andrew Marr
Marr admires responsible journalism – the conscientious and honest reporting of facts.
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Eco Against Occultism and Fundamentalisms
Science progresses by correcting itself and admitting its own mistakes.
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Serbia’s Education Minister Quits
Her claim that Darwin’s theory was as ‘dogmatic’ as creationism did not go down well.
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The Intellectual Content of a Fortune Cookie
Rorschach, MMPI, Myers-Briggs – ‘personality’ tests are pseudoscientific, intrusive, or both.
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Who Says Murky Ideas Don’t Matter?
Sovereignty is a mongrel: born in “divine right” theology, incoherent, ambiguous, dangerous.
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The Lopez Affair, Shakespeare, and Shylock
Shakespeare did something that Marlowe never chose to do.
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Books, Humanists, Productivity, Glut
Nonconformity is good, but people should act normal.
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Pro-hunt Protesters Storm House of Commons
Parliament suspended after five protesters stormed Commons chamber.
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Missing Quotation Marks Again
Urgent deadline, assistants, accidental deletions, embarrassment all around.
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The Dark Side of Democracy
Nation-statism and ethnic cleansing intertwine to make spread of democracy problematic.