That power corrupts? Or that subjects try to please the experimenter?
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Princes and Wheels
Too much speed and hard work, not enough Wiccans and stillness, don’t you agree?
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Moral Maze Discusses Religious Hatred Law
Johann Hari, Steven Rose, Claire Fox and others.
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Science is Revisable
Stephen Hawking has changed his mind about an aspect of black holes.
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Stupid Guy Thinks ‘Alice’ is a Girly Book
So he wanted revenge: ‘to rewrite it as a book boys would also enjoy.’
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Martha Nussbaum on Sexual Torture at Gujarat
Women as nation, objectification, and disgust.
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Ken Livingston and Pro-Hijab
Yusuf al-Qaradawi got a standing ovation. Hurrah for the hijab.
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Solution to African Food Crisis is Multifaceted
Better science education, more research, better roads, communication.
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Water and the West Bank
More science and less religious fundamentalism would be better for Israelis and Palestinians.
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Why Plagiarism Matters
For the same sort of reason evidence matters, logic matters, truth matters.
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At the MLA Convention
Essay way too long, padded, boring, but with some interesting bits.
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Democrats Let Themselves be Hustled
The herd of independent minds demands noisy religiosity from Kerry. Why?
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NSS Says Blunkett’s Religious Law is Dangerous
National Secular Society on invitation to religious fanatics to use courts to silence critics.
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Occidentalism Reviewed
Rebellion against the West is a Western export.
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National Endowment for the Arts Survey of Reading
Literary reading is in decline, and the rate of decline is increasing.
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Timothy Garton Ash on Prospect List of Intellectuals
‘Like most British intellectuals of his generation, Karl Popper was born in Vienna.’
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Want the Feds Monitoring Universities? No?
Should ‘both sides’ of the Holocaust or slavery be taught?
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Nick Cohen on Blunkett’s Cunning Plan
‘a religion is a system of ideas like any other.’
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Yusuf al-Qaradawi Will Not Face Charges
Insufficient evidence, cautious speech, interest in the truth.
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Doubts About Religious Hatred Law
‘…where people feel free to be able to express sensible views and have sensible arguments.’