Chechen rebels seize schoolchildren and teachers as hostages.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
-
A Manifesto by People of Muslim Culture
For sexual equality and secularism; against homophobia, the hijab and anti-semitism.
-
Paper by Creationist in Real Science Journal
Someone from the Discovery Institute got one past the editors.
-
Stupidest Article You’ll Ever See in the CHE
Dammit, education is for jobs, not just to learn stuff!
-
It Isn’t Racist To Attack Homophobic Music
The fact that a group is oppressed doesn’t give it the right to oppress.
-
Women Are From Boston, Men Are From Birmingham
Ideas about gender difference based on bad or no research have a strange popularity.
-
Lift Hijab Law or We Kill Them
Kidnappers of two French journalists demand end to law banning religious apparel in school.
-
Top British Scientists Oppose Blanket Ban On Human Cloning
The Royal Society favours therapeutic human cloning.
-
Scientists Want Compromise on Cloning
Reproductive cloning should be banned, therapeutic should be permitted.
-
UK Scientists Resist US Pressure on Cloning
UK scientists back international campaign against US efforts to ban all cloning.
-
Muslims Can Go to Heaven, Archbishop Says
Christians don’t control access to heaven, although Jesus does.
-
Cardinal Attacks Sex Lessons
The Catholic Church lecturing people about the sexual abuse of children. There’s an irony.
-
Philosophy is not Just Self-Help
But the promotion for Penguin’s Great Ideas series might make one think otherwise.
-
Dogmatic Commitment to Instrumentalism
If knowledge is not an intrinsic good, then any ‘knowledge’ will do.