Colin Blakemore says MRC’s 2001 review of autism research highlighted gaps in knowledge.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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In Biology Everyone Stands in Mayr’s Shadow
‘Mayr’s life defies the myth that elderly scientists are incapable of changing their minds.’
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Interview with Ernst Mayr
‘Biology is an autonomous science and should not be mixed up with physics.’
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On Alexis de Tocqueville
The physics of democracy.
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Is There a Shortage of Scientists in the US?
The inaccuracy of past pronouncements creates a woof-woof problem.
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BHL Has Views That Annoy
‘The Palestinian “victimocracy” has a tendency to hide wars that are infinitely longer and more murderous.’
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A Theosophical Heir to the Throne
‘Much of this assault on contemporary rationalism flows from the prince’s rather eclectic spiritualism.’
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The Nuances of That Word
You? Yourself? Or off? Hitchens suggests off is best.
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Sucking Up to Judith Butler
Superstar, classic, defining work, platinum album, seminal work, provocative, immense success, etc.
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Open Democracy on Multiculturalism
Does multiculturalism lead to cultural relativism? What about the universal standards of human rights?
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The Hubble’s Last Years?
NASA has canceled missions to service telescope.
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High Art v Low is a False Dichotomy
‘In America, even the intellectuals are anti-intellectual.’
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Tupac Shakur not Some Sort of Byron
John McWhorter says rap teaches ‘recreational outrage.’
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The ‘No Ectoplasm Clause’
Massimo Pigliucci on the neurobiology of regret.
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Arab News Media and the ‘Blood of Martyrs’
‘al Qaeda has become mainstream and being part of the movement is “cool” in the eyes of young people.’
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Moore Could be Better and Still Be Moore
‘He could show us that war kills and Bush is appalling, and yet be more scrupulous.’
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Louis Menand is a Tosser, Publisher Says
Helps to have a sense of humour, to get point of Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
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John Sutherland Deplores Soggy Platitudes
No one reading this blah-ridden document would guess how serious the crisis in arts funding is.
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Carl Zimmer on a New Hominid Find
Is human development straight or branching? How important were long legs and big brains?
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Skull Fuels Homo erectus Debate
Small skull could show diversity within species, or different species.