And refuses international food aid, citing desire not to be choked.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Atheist Roots of Hindu Philosophy
Disagreement among schools is over the authority of the Vedas, not a deity.
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What Has a Bad Survey to do With Paleontology?
Nothing, but paleontology sounds impressive, so stick on the label.
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Ideas via Import-Export, not Creation
People with cohesive social networks tend to think and act the same.
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The Nation on The New York Review of Books
Radicals and liberals, politics and literature, dangerous and safe, trends and ends.
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Christie’s Should Have Been Less Certain
Questions about evidence and doubt arise even at art auction houses.
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Scientific ‘Proof’ of Astrology?
But if cell phones have stronger magnetic fields than Mars does, then…?
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Elliott Abrams Meets With Apostolic Congress
Rapture Christians have that precious commodity: access.