Scientists fall out over fusion – again.
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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Anti-GM Hysteria Begins
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, all the usual suspects, foam at the mouth.
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Leave Those Guinea Pigs Alone!
“Animal rights” activists appeal to the neighbours.
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The Difference Between Sense and Nonsense
Freeman Dyson reviews a book on pseudoscience.
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The Yuk-factor and Neuroscience
Carl Zimmer on Bush’s Bioethics Council and how emotions work.
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Susan Moller Okin
Not one we could afford to lose.
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GM Go Ahead in the UK
About time too!
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Just Making It Up Can Be Risky
Clinical psychology ought to be based on research.
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Stanley Milgram Admired ‘Candid Camera’
Allen Funt believed he could reveal how people respond to societal pressures.
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Thomas Frank on the Elitism Myth
In which up is down, out is in, no is yes.
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Back From Syracuse, Dr. Heidegger?
What is it with intellectuals and dictators? Mark Lilla has a look.
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Using the Word ‘Genocide’
Turkish scholars challenge government version of 1915 Armenian genocide.
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Norm Geras Encounters Some Nonsense
And wonders if there’s a way to decide whether it’s right or wrong.
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67% Chance That God Exists
‘Scientist’ starts from absurd premise and arrives at ridiculous conclusion.
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What’s the Aramaic for ‘Popcorn’?
A handy lexicon for moviegoers.
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Hemingway at his Most Eloquent
Bulls are great – they don’t write, they’re not queer, they’re not old women, and you can kill them.
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Like Gibbon and Frazer Only in Bulk
William Vollmann’s seven volume work is swept away on a flood of logorrhea.
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That’s an Accomplishment?
‘one of literary theory’s accomplishments…has been its bid to protect “the privacy of its language.”‘
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Postpositivist Realism
Identity is fluid, until we have to deal with other people.
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Chris Mooney on ‘Sound Science’
The phrases ‘sound science’ and ‘peer review’ may not mean what you think.