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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Scientists Slam Nobel Loser
Supporters of creationist claim he is shunned because of his religion, but colleagues don’t believe it.
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Totalizing Ideologies
What are the words to ‘The Red Flag’ again?
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Doctors Boycott TV Drama on MMR Jab
Channel 5’s docudrama is biased and emotive, senior doctors say.
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Habermas on Adorno
There were irritating gaps in the Frankfurt canon of philosophers.
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Executives of ‘Radio Machete’ Found Guilty
They used a radio station and a newspaper to inflame ethnic hatred that led to genocide in Rwanda.
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Homophobic Reggae Star ‘Should Be Arrested’
Gay rights group call for the arrest of reggae star Bounty Killer.
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Danny Postel Reviews John Gray
Twists and turns on the ideological road.
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Predecessor of the Fashionable Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce’s version of the satirical lexicon.
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Edward Skidelsky on George Steiner
Jeremiads are no substitute for understanding.
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Non-Mainstream Opinion and Blogs
There are more pro-war left than anti-war left bloggers.
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Hi, Welcome to the Food Chain
We love Nature and it loves us – we taste good.
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Eaten
Poor people are more likely to live near predators than rich people are.
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Paul Johnson on Art
He values both order and innovation, Joe Phelan says.
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Hang Up
Walk, or chat on the phone, but don’t do both at once.
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Who Pays the Bioethicist?
Universities and researchers get funding from commercial interests, and so do some ethicists.
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New Collection by Marina Warner
Combines ability to see behind what we take for granted and a breathtaking depth of knowledge.
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Writers are Insomniacs
‘Constant sobriety is not a natural or pleasant condition’
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Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003
Will atheists have to be silent or risk punishment?
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Report
The Working Group on Human Remains report.