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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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One Nation Under Secularism
Susan Jacoby on postures of religious me-too-ism.
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Bush Administration Meddles in Science
‘several science-policy experts argue that no presidency has been more calculating and ideological’
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Politics and Science
Congressional minority report on scientific integrity in the Bush Administration.
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Kilroy-Silk, BBC Both Asses, Observer Says
Coarse intellect, pointless good looks, even racist views not reasons for firing.
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Police Investigation of Newspaper Column
‘Indisputably stupid’ column on ‘Arabs’ an offence under the Public Order Act?
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MMR, Today and the BBC
Both sides of a ‘debate’ get equal coverage so the evidence is equal too, right? No.
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Bhandarkar InstituteJust the Beginning
Sambhaji Brigade threatens further violence, demands author be hanged.
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Sambhaji Brigade Defends Attack
Spokesperson at news conference calls institute a ‘centre of cultural terrorism.’
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‘Labor’ Department?
Telling employers how to avoid paying overtime is the job of the Labor Department?
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Case Lodged Against Author
The Indian Penal Code forbids ‘writings which hurt sentiments of people’…
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The Edge Annual Question 2004
Pinker, Rees, Humphrey, Baron-Cohen, Turkle, Holton, Dennett, Ridley, Dawkins – and many more.
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Compare the Headlines
Jon Christensen collects headlines about global warming extinctions.
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Matter is not so Mere After All
Thomas Clark examines John Horgan’s mostly skeptical tour of mysticism.
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Review of Defending Science
Says ‘Differentialism’ when he means ‘Deferentialism,’ but oh well.
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‘Our Anguish at the Wanton Destruction’
Indian historians condemn attack on Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute.
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Religion and Public Relations
Pedophile priests and Jesus-according-to-Gibson need to be carefully presented.
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Stephen King Has no Patience
For people who don’t read popular fiction.
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Evasiveness Breeds Conspiracy Theories
When otherwise dependable cynics believe nonsense, there may be a reason.
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Samantha Power Reviews Chomsky
A glib and caustic tone; exaggerated claims not backed up; but worth reading.