BJP leaders in Maharashtra call for ban on Nehru book that ‘demeans’ Shivaji.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Wilentz, Wills, Jefferson
Is revisionist history recapitulating partisan Federalist politics?
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Astronauts Regret Doom of Hubble
Repair mission worth the risk and they would do it again, astronauts say.
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Certification in Three Days?
To many philosophical counselors, Lou Marinoff is an embarrassment.
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Philip Stott on What Ails Academics
Feuds, rivalries, pecking orders, nasty remarks – too much like kindergarten.
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400 Nigerian Children Have Caught Polio
Radical Muslim clerics in northern Nigeria are blocking WHO vaccination program.
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Who Did What to Whom in Rwanda?
Who shot down Habyarimana’s plane in 1994? What happened after the genocide?
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Burke on Butler (and Yglesias)
Will gay marriage dissolve the gay-straight binary and lead to a gender-free world? Probably not.
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Another Reporter Gets Creative With Facts
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist made up stories and lifted material.
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Do We Need Robots to Play Tennis on Mars?
Steven Weinberg on the waste and pointlessness of sending humans into space.
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Conversion From Christianity to Philoflagellationism?
Garry Wills on ‘The Passion’ and the persecution mania of religious extremists.
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When Political Thought Goes Rigid
A paper on cultism in political groups.
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Complementary Medicine May Be Harmful
Now there’s a surprise.
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Precognition, Remote Viewing, Bent Spoons
What would convince skeptics that there are paranormal phenomena? Replication.
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Myths About Induction
There is no single Scientific Method based on induction.
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Interesting Choice
Guy poisons wife and random strangers, does time, now teaches medical ethics.
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P.Z. Myers on the ‘Discovery’ Institute
He’s not a great fan.
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Why Skeptics Dread Chats With Believers
Phil Mole on the frustration of arguing with people who don’t know how.
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Intelligent Design and Harvard Law Review
The National Review Online gets mixed up in the argument.
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Chris Mooney on ‘Intelligent Design’
And rash interventions by interested parties.