Is ‘reading’ tv the exact equivalent of reading books?
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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Amartya Sen on the Values of the Environment
People are agents whose freedoms matter, not just patients with living standards.
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‘Great stories, and some of them are even true’
Punk journalism is sparky, sexy, non-boring, what everyone is saying.
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Alternative to Female Genital Mutilation?
Would a symbolic cut prevent worse, or endorse a terrible practice?
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Robert Merton and Serendipity
The importance of accident and luck in research.
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Georgia Removes ‘Evolution’
State education officials delete controversial word from science guidelines.
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Evolution is a ‘Buzzword’
Not going to be teaching the monkeys-to-man sort of thing.
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Empty Bookshelves and Closed Minds?
Sumanta Banerjee on censorship by fundamentalist religious protests.
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Silent Protestors at BORI
Citizens protest vandalism at Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
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This is Parody, Right?
No, apparently not. Amazing stuff.
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What Does Rosenhan’s Hoax Show?
That labels influence diagnosis? That diagnosis is mere labeling?
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A Past Master at Having It Both Ways
‘trying to create a kind of moral-political Theory of Everything, he gets badly out of his depth’
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Nawal El-Saadawi in Al-Ahram
‘Why should the head of women in particular be considered so dangerous that it must be made to disappear?’
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Time & Newsweek Have a Responsibility
To people in bookless small towns who want to learn about ideas.
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Media Storms Can Mislead
Undue attention to cloning distorts public understanding of the field.
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Carl Zimmer on Creationist Rhetorical Tricks
Pretend science is like politics and there is always a middle ground.
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Why Don’t People See?
Paul Berman lists six causes of partial vision.
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After After After Theory
Yet another postmortem.
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Misconceptions Could Harm the Poor
Bioethics Centre and Peter Singer against Prince Charles on nanotechnology.
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The Uses of Nanotechnology
High-profile opponents take an unbalanced approach, say ethicists.