German historian opposed revisionist accounts of Holocaust.
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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Repatriation Issue
Critics angered by assertion of tribal rights over needs of science and knowledge.
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Another Myth Shot Down
Marco Polo did not go to China, okay? He read some books he found in Persia.
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Declinism in France
‘so out of breath, so indebted, so closed in its own prejudices’ – narratives of decline are fun.
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Shock News – The DaVinci Code is Fiction!
People who think it’s fact should be herded into a crop circle and beaten with The Bible Code.
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Knowledge is More Than Cultural Capital
It can make the world a better place; downgrading the struggle for knowledge is reactionary.
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Blame Atheism!
For what? Oh, everything. Holidays, strikes, Europe. Why not after all?
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Cloning of Human Embryos Given Go Ahead
Just wait for the complaints of religious maniacs…
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Education for its Own Sake or for a Job?
Gradgrind, Clarke; golf course management or utterly purposeless history study.
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Is Islam Religion or Political Ideology?
Both. ‘Religion is what makes Islamic political ideology so dangerous.’
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Evidence for Social Brain Theory
Did humans evolve large brain to negotiate and manipulate complex social relationships?
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Style – Communication or Self-expression?
Truth-telling, therapy, sharing? Facts, beauty?
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Paranoia at Historians’ Convention
Does Keith Windschuttle have an agenda or is he merely pointing out mistakes?
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Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Martin Honey
Two guys, a long river trip, Heidegger: now playing at your local cinema.
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Phallocentric Theorizing When It’s at Home
‘Acephalic Litter as a Phallic Letter’ – and that’s not a parody!
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Is Al-Jazeera Biased? More Than Others?
Is an Arab-language satellite news network funded by US Congress ‘the free one’?
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
Doctor accuses man of killing his own children on the basis of TV documentary.
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A Guess is not Beyond Reasonable Doubt
‘Your view was a theory which was not presented as a theory but as a near certainty.’
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Munchausen’s by Proxy That Wasn’t
Doctor banned from child protection cases for three years.
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Oh So That’s Why Everyone is so Perky
There are traces of Prozac in UK drinking water. Some worry, others don’t.