Doctors working in child protection accuse media of demonising paediatricians.
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.
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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Too Many Stories in Skinner’s Box?
‘The worst thing you can do in science and scholarship is make things up.’
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Deborah Skinner Was Not a Lab Rat
B.F. Skinner’s daughter says Lauren Slater has recycled old rumours.
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David Corfield Reviews Lauren Slater
‘It is one thing to “celebrate as story”; it would be another to peddle fabricated accounts.’
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Women’s Alliance to Fight Fundamentalism
Women’s International Federation Against Fundamentalisms and for Equality founded in Geneva.
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Malaria, Africa and DDT
Is there a double standard? Is the risk from malaria greater than that from DDT?
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Susan Haack on Coherence & Co
Consistency, ‘foundherentism,’ cogency, novels, and remaining calm.
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NY Review of Books on Islam and its Demons
Considering ‘the religious populism that is sweeping the Muslim world.’
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Susan Haack on Science and Religion
They really are at odds, and science really is the more admirable enterprise.
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‘What If’ History Has an Agenda
In the postmodern world of contingency and irony one narrative is as valid as another.
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Parody From Another Direction?
Again, sadly, no. They mean it.
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Martha Nussbaum on Liberal Education
Education that can liberate minds from bondage to mere habit and tradition.
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What is Multiculturalism Anyway?
Does it mean separateness, acceptance, learning from other cultures, inclusion?
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Will Hutton on Fundamentalism
When religion provides ‘meaning’ the need to impose it on others is strong.
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Polly Toynbee on Multiculturalism
Breaking with unctuous, unthinking platitudes about diversity.
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To Be Young, Angry and Striking a Pose
Maybe ‘different communities’ shouldn’t be treated differently after all.
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Washington Post on Hindutva v. Scholarship
Threats against US scholars such as Doniger, Laine and Courtright.
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Rwanda Outlaws Ethnicity
If awareness of ethnic differences can be learned, it can be unlearned.
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Pope Causes Trouble Again
John Paul II says hospitals should tube-feed patients in persistent vegetative state.
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The Economist on Bush v. Science
‘Politicians can cheat nature no more effectively than scientists can.’