Ill-founded fears of MMR jab could result in epidemics of dangerous diseases.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Are Aesthetic Preferences Influencing Science?
Scholar argues that non-native species are not necessarily bad, and causes a row.
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Hitchens Rebuts an Opponent
Enforcing distinctions not blurring them, and a chapter on the ‘armchair’.
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Hitchens on the Islamic Mafia
And tenderness toward their sensibilities from people who ignored Sarajevo.
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Help For The Disadvantaged?
Should university admissions procedures take social circumstances into account?
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Shapiro on Kermode on Literature
The discussions of old battles over French theory fail to thrill, but the rest does.
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What Should Students Learn?
Especially at a time when ‘some theoreticians batter away at the universal truth claims of science.’
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Fads and Fallacies
Steven Goldberg calls for honest inquiry but doesn’t always offer enough evidence himself.
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Occidentalism
Enlightenment thinkers were a minority, it was the orthodox who fought them who had the power.