‘How many beatings and actual house arrests of girls will be needed for us to say stop?’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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The Bad Astronomer
Phil Plait combats simple ignorance as well as deliberate deception.
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Yuk Factor in Action
Bush administration’s ‘compromise’ on cloning research limits US scientists.
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Ishtiaq Ahmed on Nationalism, Nation and Umma
Equality was a spiritual norm but slaves and women were subordinated.
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Divisions Over Hijab
Teachers are relieved, some Muslims are angry, others are pleased.
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‘Intelligent Design’ in Harvard Law Review
How the pseudoscientific ID movement enhances its credibility and credentials.
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Religious Education Should Include Atheism
Institute of Public Policy Research has advice about compulsory RE in schools.
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UK Schoolgirl in Court Over Jilbab
Her religious beliefs won’t allow her not to wear a long, flowing gown.
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Simon Blackburn Writes a Screenplay
O Martin! O Hannah! The demonic! The abyss of longing! Cut, print.
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‘If they don’t kill me I will testify.’
There is a desire to gloss over the scale of the Rwanda genocide.
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French Opinion Divided Over Ban
Some say debate will help roll back radical Islamic fundamentalism.
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Campaign for Darwin Day
A Darwin Day would send a signal that science matters.
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Richard Hoggart
Which is condescension: offering only junk on tv, or saying junk is junk?
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Doing the Intellectual Diversity Dance
Stanley Fish: the pursuit of truth is not a but the central purpose of the university.
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Presidents Shape Lincoln to Suit Their Needs
Does a picture of Crawford on the wall make Bush another Lincoln?
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Bad Time and Place to Evangelize
This is your pilot speaking. Are you a Christian? Well why not?!
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John Maddox Reviews Paul Kurtz
‘Explanations requiring the supernatural are now not merely quaint but harmfully distracting to children and other innocents.’
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Happy Darwin Day
Celebrate the adventure of science, and the ‘passion to know’.
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French MPs Back Headscarf Ban
Massive majority vote in favour.
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Romano on Habermas and Derrida
Both are ‘burdened by chronic philosopher’s ailments.’