Erin O’Connor on Helena Echlin’s dysphoria as a graduate student at Yale.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Market-Worship is Ideology Too
Ignoring the differences between government and business is ideology.
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Neil Postman Obituary
NYU media critic, author of Amusing Ourselves to Death and other influential books.
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A Carla Sandwich and Disgrace
John Sutherland recommends Coetzee, Roth and Prose novels for understanding of sexual harrassment.
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The Public Library of Science
Scientific reasearch should be freely available.
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Toxins in Organic Maize
No agriculture is ‘natural’ but without it we’ll all starve to death, remember?
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How to Evaluate Evidence
Crooked Timber discusses evidence for and against global warming, and how hard it is to know the difference.
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Critical Realism Replacing Postmodernism?
‘If postmodernism is indeed dead…Sokal and Bricmont have surely been instrumental in hastening the death-throes.’
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Eagleton and Kermode
‘While Eagleton has always shouted his heresies, Frank Kermode has whispered his doubts.’
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You Mean Knowledge Can Be Useful?
Clever old Congress, firing those pesky scientists. Err – ooops.
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Fundamentalism in Pakistan
Creeping Talibanization apparent even in the universities.
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Femininity, Phooey
Oh no, it’s gone! Well what a relief.
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Rorty on Davidson
Retail skepticism makes sense but wholesale does not.
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It’s All So Much Funnier Now
Criticism has gone bonkers in the forty years between ‘The Pooh Perplex’ and ‘Postmodern Pooh.’
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Royal Society Rebukes Guardian
For publishing a speculative article about the contents of scientific papers before publication.
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Philip Stott Tears a Strip Off Guardian
‘It is precisely such spin and partial reporting that is undermining the role of science in society.’
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More Philip Stott
Newspapers are supposed to report, not speculate.
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What’s Going On In There?
What happens to the brain and to consciousness after trauma?
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Environmental Propaganda Wars
Entrenched positions prevent both sides from evaluating arguments on the merits.
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More on Academic Conformity
Critical Mass is hearing from people.