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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Visual Illusions and the Brain
It’s really not moving.
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Faking Racial Incident Not a Good Plan
Police say victim staged vandalism of her own car.
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The Next Two Hours I Have to be at my PlayStation
Whither the underground? David Bromwich wonders.
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Local Elections in Iraq
Secular candidates have done better than Islamists.
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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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Linguistic Relativity and Colour
Sapir-Whorf or Berlin-Kay?
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Examine That Life
Carlin Romano considers two collections of brief memoirs by philsophers.
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Anne Fadiman and American Scholar
Editor is fired over budget issues; Todd Gitlin and others protest.
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Is This Parody?
Probably not. It certainly is funny though!
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Leon Wieseltier on God in the Pledge
‘Say “under God” even if you don’t mean under God.’
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Truth, Truths, ‘Truth’ and ‘Truths’
Susan Haack on the ‘Passes-for Fallacy’ and more.
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The Contract of Mutual Indifference
Why did the rest of the world not stop the Rwanda genocide?
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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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Girly Jesus Out, Sadist Killer Jesus In
The guy can boil your blood just by talking. Repent!
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That’s Dr Arendt and Dr Heidegger to You!
‘Hannah and Martin’ indeed – what next?! Dave and Mannie and Fritz?