Parliarmentary committee calls for more trials.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ah, Sweet Mystery
Popular science books ought to help nonspecialists distinguish sense from nonsense.
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Some People Disapprove of French Ban
US State Department, al Qaeda frown at ban on religious attire.
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French Upper House Backs Hijab Ban
Huge majority in favour of the ban.
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Elephants Can Be Irritating
There are good reasons why Africans don’t view their fauna with the same sentimentality that Europeans do.
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Tougher Penalties for Genital Mutilation
Up to 14 years in prison for parents who allow their children to undergo female circumcision.
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MMR Researchers Issue Retraction
Ten doctors who co-authored the MMR health fears study have said there was insufficient evidence to draw that conclusion.
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GM Crops Can Help the Poor
The strongest argument in favour of developing GM crops is the contribution they can make to reducing world poverty, hunger and disease.
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Science in the Arab World
What are the factors that contribute to the low level of scientific research?
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My, the Unabomber Writes Well
How to grade millions of university-entrance essays? Clumsily.
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Science Journal Publishers Defend Profits
Journal bosses claim that academic institutions would suffer if the system were changed.
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Complementary Medicine Needs Proper Research
No integration into the NHS until proper science has been done, argues Edzard Ernst.
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Review of A C Grayling’s New Book
‘He would like to rip philosophy from what Hazlitt called the “labyrinths of intellectual abstraction”‘
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Dinosaurs in Asteroid Shock
Single impact theory of dinosaur extinction is challenged.
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Daniel Boorstin
The New York Times obituary.
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NHS Head Dismisses Charles’ Demands
‘The NHS will use anything that evidential research shows works.’
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Confidence in MMR Vaccine Grows
Thanks to conflict of interest allegations.
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Is the French Government Anti-Intelligence?
French intellectuals have signed a petition to that effect.
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Daniel Boorstin
The Washington Post obituary.
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Ian Bell Reviews Francis Wheen
A cool, dispassionate look at Wheen’s Mumbo Jumbo.