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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Scott McLemee Reviews Susan Jacoby
The importance of secularism in US history.
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More on the Invisible Adjunct
No health insurance, bad pay, no office, no respect – what’s not to like?
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GM High-protein Corn
Could supplement protein-deficient diets in Africa and South America.
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Does Faked ‘Evidence’ Matter?
If you really really believe the story is it okay to fake the evidence? Er, no.
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Daily Mirror Editor Sacked Over Faked Pictures
So the difference between truth and fakery does matter then?
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Funny or ‘Funny’?
‘It has long been compulsory to say you adore Carry On films, just to show you’re not stuffy or priggish or politically correct.’
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No War-Crimes Cornettos, Thanks
Julian Baggini reviews books on Greed, Lust, Envy and Gluttony – and wants more.
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Sad End For Famous Gender Experiment
David (Brian/Brenda) Reimer commits suicide.
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Psychologists on Abu Ghraib
‘In all organisations…people will replicate in some way the personality of the number one person in charge’
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All Psychology is Speculative
Evolutionary psychology may be less so since it incorporates evolutionary constraints.
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BJP Out!
Secularism returns in Indian election upset.
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Congress Party Defeats BJP
Congress won 12 out of 26 seats in Gujarat.
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Congress Party Returns in Huge Upset
A stunning upset of the Hindu nationalist BJP
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Science Is Not a Democracy
Journalists report ‘both sides’ but when the sides are not equal, that can distort.
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Dembski’s Mathematical Achievements
Sparse output for a research mathematician, few citations; ‘written in jello.’
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Placebo Hospital to Close
Oh dear.
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Monsanto abandons GM project
Activists celebrate. Starving millions not so pleased.
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Zimbardo and Milgram
Sadistic urges are not as inaccessible as we would like.
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They Tidy Up, Your Mum and Dad
John Fowles’ diary reveals a bad case of Holden Caulfield syndrome.