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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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Masks and Disguises
Milosevic was framed and Darfur is about oil. Right?
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The New Scientist on Francis Crick
Steve Jones: ‘Francis Crick was the Charles Darwin of the 20th century.’
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Vatican Wisdom on Women
Feminism has inspired ideologies that question family and marriage. Bad to question things.
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Difference Feminism, Vatican-style
Feminine capacity to ‘live for the other’ makes women pre-eminent source of social good. Ick.
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The Vatican Letter Itself
Persuasive stuff.
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Pope Not Dead Yet
Even though he has the beliefs of a dinosaur…
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Francis Crick, New York Times
DNA discovery showed how biology could be explained via physics and chemistry.
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Francis Crick-Related Articles from NY Times
DNA, chemistry, Rosalind Franklin, how science works, and more.
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Peter Singer on Animal Rights and Violence
Condemning the use of violence against sentient beings, human or non-human.
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Francis Crick
The Guardian obit, with useful links.
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Francis Crick, the Telegraph
Accepted a fellowship conditional on chapel-absence; resigned when chapel was built. Good man.
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Matt Ridley on Francis Crick
‘Throughout his life he was high on the drug called rationality.’
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But the Science Dog Did Bark
Richard Dawkins on Prospect poll, science in media and education, new book.
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British Islamic Colleges Back Terrorism?
Calls for inquiry as lecturers voice support for Taliban and Hamas.
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Nanotechnology Needs New Laws
Probably to shut Prince Charles up…
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Francis Crick, 1916-2004
Crick helped discover the double helix shape of DNA along with James Watson.
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Francis Crick
James Watson: ‘I will always remember Francis for his extraordinarily focused intelligence’
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Francis Crick
The discovery earned Nobel Prize and touched many aspects of modern life.
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Crackdown On Animal ‘Rights’ Activists
UK government to unveil new strategy to deal with extremists.