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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Are Aesthetic Preferences Influencing Science?
Scholar argues that non-native species are not necessarily bad, and causes a row.
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An Israeli View of Said
The Ha’aretz obituary.
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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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Bloom Disses King
Is an award to Stephen King a symptom of dumbing down? Or is Bloom just cranky.
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Wit, Blather and Screwiness
Carlin Romano goes to the World Congress of Philosophy in Istanbul.
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Political Rhetoric
How does rhetoric differ from argument? Crooked Timber discusses the matter.
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No Death By Stoning
Blow to cultural relativists as liberal values prevail. Sort of.
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Edward Said
New York Times obituary.
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Edward Said
The Guardian obituary.
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Help For The Disadvantaged?
Should university admissions procedures take social circumstances into account?
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British Public Are Scaredy-Cats
GM crops and self-selecting samples.
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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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Bush Administration Suppresses Research
And considers suing the Environmental Protection Agency.
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When Democracies Fall Apart
It’s not the angry people but the elites who make it happen.
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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.
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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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Power-hunger in the Guise of Liberation
Alexandra Stein on the appeal and danger of cults.