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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Women hardest hit by poverty but it’s a secret
Neither The New York Times nor The Wall Street Journal even mentioned women in their front-page stories about the rise in the poverty rate.
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The normalisation of misogyny is commonplace
The objectification and dehumanisation of women is such an inescapable part of popular culture that it necessarily plays a part in the daily interactions of men and women.
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Tom Martin replies: men are too so the victims
“In a world which verbalises four times more sexism against men than it does against women, it’s high time gender studies set a better example.”
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Jonathan Dean defends LSE’s Gender Institute
If a gender studies scholar were to put forward a crude “women good, men bad” analysis, it would never stand up to peer scrutiny.
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Johann Hari offers a personal apology
Admits editing Wikipedia entries “of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious.”
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Man sues LSE for “sexism”
“Its programs actively block men’s discourse and perpetuate the men-bad, women-good dialogue.”
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Couple on trial for letting their baby die
The Oregon medical examiner’s office estimates that in the past 30 years, more than 20 children of church members have died of preventable or curable conditions.
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Israel: cadets protest women singing at ceremony
Four of the nine religious cadets who walked out of a military event as a female
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Jacques Berlinerblau says how to do secularism
Do it his way.
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Why is US TV losing women writers?
Women who hear that the television industry is not welcoming to them may be less
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Sexism alive and well in TV land
Only 15% of the writers of broadcast network, prime-time programs were women in 2010-2011 season, less than half the number in 2006-2007.
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Bachmann’s breathtaking ignorance about HPV vaccine
“To have innocent little 12-year old girls be forced to have a government injection through an executive order is just flat-out wrong,” she proclaimed Monday.
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Globe and Mail talks to Udo Schuklenk
“Often when people talk about end-of-life decision making, the assumption is it’s about pain. But it’s not. The concern is more about losing control over their lives, the quality of their lives.”
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Globe and Mail editorial: make right to die legal
“Many people, once they know that if all else fails, this is an option, they won’t make that call. The stress is gone,” says Udo Schuklenk.
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Iran: women’s rights activist badly beaten by cops
Her charges were announced as “Insulting the Supreme Leader”, “Propaganda against the Islamic Republic regime”, and “Acting against national security”.
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Nothing paranormal about near-death experiences
How neuroscience can explain seeing bright lights, meeting the dead, or being convinced you are one of them.
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Near-death experiences found to have naturalistic causes
Research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features.
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Abuse survivors will try to take pope to court
Rape and other forms of sexual violence are specifically included in the definition of crimes against humanity that are under the jurisdiction of the ICC.
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Pope accused of crimes against humanity
Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have accused the pope, the Vatican secretary of state and two other officials in a formal complaint to the ICC.
