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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Why Did the Tate Apologise?
It’s not the Tate’s job to appease the sensibilities of particular religious groups, says Kenan Malik.
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Love of Knowledge is not ‘White’
Self-imposed barriers can be the hardest to overthrow.
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Teaching is Another Form of Political Domination
And graduate study at Yale is so over, and Buffy was never the same after the fourth season.
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Why Are We Still Talking About IQ And Race?
Gavin Evans argues that the concept of race makes no genetic sense.
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Leave The Bones Alone
Vital scientific research could be at risk if museums are forced to repatriate human remains.
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Dawkins to Give Tanner Lectures
A passionate Darwinian as a scientist and anti-Darwinian in politics and human affairs.
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Scientists Must Educate the Public
If they don’t help journalists do a better job, then the better job won’t get done.
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Ray Monk on Hitler’s Scientists
Poison gas and atom bombs, Bohr and Heisenberg, science and ethics.
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Maybe It’s About To Get A Bit Chilly
Could global warming bring about a new ice age?
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The People Is Always Right. Right?
No, which is why government by plebiscite or initiative is an alarming idea.
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Why Subsidise Farmers but not Miners?
Romantic views of agriculture leave out too many inconvenient facts.
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Favourite Science Hoaxes
The top ten science hoaxes courtesy of the Guardian.
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Astonishment, Fluidity and Changefulness
Montaigne put ‘a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.’
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Does Science Still Matter?
Why is there so much hostility to science and reason?
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Carlin Romano on Curtis White
We don’t need a whole book to unpack one catchy phrase.
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Hindu Students Petition Against Book
An academic study of Ganesha is ‘offensive’ to Hindus; author must apologize.
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Whither (or Wither?) Scholarship?
Are scholars all dead from the waist down? Is it all a waste?
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Richard Wollheim
San Francisco Chronicle obituary.
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Richard Wollheim
Chicago Tribune obituary.