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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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Leo Marx on American Studies
The discipline that was not a discipline, before and after the Great Divide.
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How Did the MMR Scare Get Going?
Sloppy reporting, visions of movie stars playing the hero parents – the usual thing.
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Hitchens on Trotskyism, Principle, Resistance
‘It’s important to try and contain multitudes.’
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Why Was Said so Controversial?
Perhaps because he turned a blind eye to certain problems?
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Retorts and Ripostes to Monbiot
Whose cult, whose media manipulation, whose naivete, whose agenda?
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Neocon Confusions
John Patrick Diggins on inadequate understandings of Communism and ‘the Islamic revolution.’
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Right to Life for a Foetus?
European abortion laws under threat?
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Sense Prevails
Mother freed in ‘cot-death’ case.
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A Whiff of Gujarat in Houston?
Are tensions between Hindus and Muslims showing up in a US city?
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From Trotskyist Splinter Group to Neocon Ring?
George Monbiot wonders what links the Institute of Ideas, spiked, and other entities.
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Philip Stott Answers Monbiot
If the Guardian won’t cover science well, then spiked will have to do.
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Let a Thousand Opinions Bloom?
Is there a shortage of ill-founded, uninformed opinions?
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The Difference Between Hegemony and Empire
The ideals of the Enlightenment belong to the left rather than the neocons.
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More on ‘Hear the Silence’
A scientifically dishonest and emotionally manipulative film gives a groundless scare still more publicity.
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Doctors Say MMR Film is Inaccurate
‘Emotionally biased but not factually biased’ – oh well that’s all right then.
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Insulting Sartre Became a Rite of Passage
Foucault called one of his books ‘the effort of a 19th-century man to imagine the 20th century.’
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Realism and Anti-Realism
Grounding ethical realism independently of religion.
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Simon Blackburn Reviews Richard Dawkins
A superb writer and a valuable ally.
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Doctors Boycott TV Drama on MMR Jab
Channel 5’s docudrama is biased and emotive, senior doctors say.