‘…this does nothing but denigrate women by reducing them to their biological function.’
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Free Speech, Offense, Harm?
What do we mean by: safety, comfort, offense, hatred, inappropriate, healthy campus climate?
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Poverty and Superstition
David Stanway looks at the idiocy of rural life in China.
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Richard Wollheim
The Guardian obituary.
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Neglecting One’s Social Duty
When was child-bearing made compulsory?
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Is it Protest or Trespass?
‘I was protecting the environment’ is not a defence, high court rules.
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Department of Jumping to Conclusions
White guys at university binge-drink because they’re so ashamed of not being diverse, right?
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Dictionary of Life Has Two Billion Entries
The first letter is G, the two billionth is T.
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‘Philosophers Have Beards’ – Really? All of Them?
TV could be an excellent medium for popularizing philosophy, but if it always has to be visually entrancing, well…
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Adam Swift Defends Diane Abbott
How political principles and personal choices fit together matters.
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Royals are Cross at Their Runaway Slave
What it’s like to work for people who can’t fasten their own seat belts or recognize servants as human.
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MMR Debate Turns Nasty
They were once colleagues. Now they’re bickering.
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Romila Thapar
Campaign against historian by the Hindutva brigade.
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Academic Boycott of Israel – Part 2
Oxford prof suspended for rejecting Israeli student on the grounds of his nationality.
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Neurotic Brits Risk Measles Epidemic
Take-up of MMR jab remains low despite ‘unequivocal evidence’ that it is not a risk factor for autism.
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Lemmings Not Lemmings At All
Apparently it’s not true that they are really depressed.
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No Level Playing Field For GM Crops Debate
Scientists furious that UK government allowed the GM crops debate to be hijacked by the antis.
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Open Letter to HM Government
Philip Stott publishes the full letter from scientists on bad media coverage of the GM debate.
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Kenan Malik on Diversity
Are multiculturalism and cultural identity really such brilliant ideas?
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Kenan Malik Reads Meera Nanda
Nanda is ‘particularly astute in demonstrating the reactionary consequences of anti-science relativism for the peoples of the Third World.’