Two out of three GM strains ‘should not be grown’.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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We’re Close Enough, Dammit!
Touchy-feely blather not the best way to relax after a hard day?
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Remembering Said
A polemicist and literary warrior in the tradition of Swift.
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Uh Oh
Do we really need ‘criticism’ of science similar to that of ‘art, literature, movies, architecture’?
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Head Scarves, Rights, Secularism
Rights talk doesn’t help when two ‘rights’ are incompatible.
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Said Inspired but Also Forestalled
Rejecting all criticism as Orientalist is not what a scholar should do.
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Review of Bountiful Harvest
Thomas DeGregori examines antitechnology movements that keep the world’s poor in poverty.
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Murder in the Name of Tradition
‘The justice system will come down on you like a ton of bricks’ for so-called ‘crimes of honour.’
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Confusing Politics with Conformity
‘Conservative’ can be just code for ‘different from me’.
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Philip Pullman Worries About Testing
Teaching for the test makes children hate literature, Pullman says.
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Honour Killing Regret
Father kills daughter for relationship with Christian.
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Simon Schama Introduces Roy Porter
A history of ‘the long, vexed relationship between the body and the rest of us.’
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Bernard-Henri Lévy Asks Who and Why
‘…is terrorism the bastard child of a demonic couple: Islam and Europe?’
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BBC ‘Hostile’ to Catholic Church?
Archbishop equates criticism with hostility, calls it offensive.
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Ill-served by his Acolytes
Terry Eagleton thinks it’s politically catastrophic that cultural theory refuses to engage the big issues.
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Tartan Hot Pants at the Tate Modern
Fashionable where? In what circles? David Aaronovitch wonders.
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Social Engineering in University Admissions?
‘We have to decide what we mean by fairness.’
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Williams on Truth
A review of Bernard Williams’ last book.
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Hitchens on Said
A moving, emotional tribute, that discusses flaws as well as virtues, but with emphasis on the latter.
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Sisterhood is Powerful
Elisabeth Nietzsche embodied everything her brother disdained, and she continues to warp his legacy.