Wales and Scotland reject GM crops.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Seeing Desire Defeat Skepticism
Never forget: we are more likely to ‘know’ what we want to know than what we don’t want to know
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Another ‘Not a Bright Idea’
Surprise: hardly anyone wants to be called a ‘Bright’.
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Scientists Criticise Tissue Law
Law requiring written consent for tissue samples from dead will undermine reseach, say scientists.
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New York Review of Books on Dawkins
Discussion of religion unfortunately evasive.
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Where Do Oranges Come From?
What does it mean that George Monbiot has a bowlful? Are they the only fruit?
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He’s Not Making This Up
David McKie reviews Francis Wheen’s How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World
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Deepak, Oprah, Merlin, Chicken Soup and All
The sleep of reason begets people who pay attention to gurus.
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Amateur Cultural Revolution
Someone is killing off Iraq’s educated class – doctors, intellectuals, human rights workers.
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Kennewick Man Can Be Studied
Federal appeals court rules: skeleton should be released for study by archaeologists.
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‘Science Wins Ancient Bones Battle’
Native Americans want to bury bones; court rules relationship impossible to establish.
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Conviction Quashed in Abuse Case
More than 100 doubtful cases being investigated by Historic Abuse Appeals Panel.
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What is ‘Occidentalism’?
Ian Buruma on dreams of local authenticity and cultural uniqueness.
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Peer Review and Politics
Chris Mooney looks at a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
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‘Conservative Lysenkoism Redux’
Chris Mooney attends Congressional hearing on ‘sound science’ – which isn’t.
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New Rhetorical Tricks by Antievolutionists
Scientific controversy is not the same as political: there is no middle ground.
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What Exactly is Media Literacy?
Is ‘reading’ tv the exact equivalent of reading books?
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Hubble Telescope May Be Saved
Protests from star-gazers may win reprieve for indispensable window on cosmos.
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Who Needs Hubble When We Have Astrology?
What’s the New York Times doing publishing astrology on the Op-ed page?
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Top Ten Modern Delusions
Francis Wheen’s list: God is on our side, the market is divine, astrology is harmless fun.