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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Desmond Tutu v. Mbeki and Mugabe
‘Human rights are human rights and they are of universal validity or they are nothing.’
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Let’s Have a Circumcision Party!
Malyasia has a new plan for bringing Muslims and non-Muslims together.
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Lomborg Decision Overturned
Danish Ministry has repudiated findings by Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty.
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Oliver Taplin Reviews Mary Lefkowitz
How important are the classical Greek gods to understanding Homer and Euripides?
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Kenan Malik on ‘Hear the Silence’
Conspiracy theories used to be a right-wing item, but now the left likes them too.
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Snakes Croaking under the Irish Coconut Trees
Mix the Osbournes, the Simpsons, Don DeLillo and Eminem: an anthology of media cliches.
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Science and Corruption
There are flaws in LA Times article about industry funding of researchers at NIH.
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Her Views as a Mother
Doctors criticize Juliet Stevenson for comments on MMR jab; Channel 5 says she has every right to speak.