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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Eagleton on Said as Humanist – of Some Sort
Said’s concern was justice, not identity.
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Goodhart on Reactions to His Diversity Essay
Some of the responses seemed knee-jerk – as if he were attacking a religion.
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Oh Look – the NY Times Has Lost its Mind!
Read it and scream – a puff piece for a creationist ‘theme park.’
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Eastern European Versions of the Holocaust
Many kinds of barriers prevented Europe from understanding itself…
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Theism is Mandatory in US Government
Rep. McDermott rebuked for failing to mention deity in Congress.
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New Doubts About MMR Study Data
Experts claim samples could have been contaminated and were incorrectly reported.
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Determinism, Agency, Bats, Ghosts
An anthology of thinking about thinking avoids headache-donation.
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Sugar Lobby and Bush Admin Pressure WHO
Sugar doesn’t make people fat and vegetables are bad for you. Got that?
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Catch Up With Chris Mooney
One good science story after another.
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Sharia in Ontario
‘Muslims would no longer have an excuse not to follow sharia…’
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Look Out! Atheists!
‘The absence of faith seems to be a major barrier between people in our society.’
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Bush Does the Lysenko Thing
Lysenko ought to be a warning, but perhaps Bush is no better at history than science.
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John Maynard Smith
The New York Times obituary.
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Paul Gross Joins Panda’s Thumb
Co-author of Higher Superstition and now Creationism’s Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design.
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The Hindu on Darwinism and ID
A larger issue in clash between science and religious obscurantism.
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This Science is Nonsense
Max Steuer of LSE on ‘pretend’ social science and the ‘post’ and ‘beyond’ style.
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Stop Teaching Chemistry but Keep Media Studies?
Leading UK scientists protest university’s plans to close chemistry department.
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Another Academic Jumps
Erin O’Connor is also getting out.
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Complexities of Twin Studies
Twins are useful for behavioral genetics, but underlying assumptions are debatable.