Administration rejects claims that it distorts or suppresses scientific information.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Huh Huh Huh Eeek Uh Uh Oooowaaah!
Animal psychologists at London Zoological Society say we should talk like chimps.
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Philosophy Has Its Uses
When everything but pedophilia is negotiable, philosophy can help to ground ethics.
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Academics Hinder Fight Against Terror
Attitudes formed in the 1960s have resulted in an anti-Americanism.
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Rwanda Genocide and ‘African’ Correctness
Emmanuel Dongala says solidarity can prevent people from speaking out.
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Richard Dawkins Set To Music
And a singer who doesn’t believe in evolution. You couldn’t make it up.
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Anne Fadiman and American Scholar
Editor is fired over budget issues; Todd Gitlin and others protest.
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The Grand Old Pledge
How can a nation pursue ‘justice for all’ but exclude nontheists and polytheists?
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That’s Dr Arendt and Dr Heidegger to You!
‘Hannah and Martin’ indeed – what next?! Dave and Mannie and Fritz?