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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Inevitably links go out of date.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 On Top
Girls beat boys just about everywhere.
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What Are Children For?
Jobs, nappies, sleep, time, vomit, money, servants, shopping, sexism, age – it’s all a bit complicated.
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Hire a Conservative!
What kind? By whose definition as of what date? And what if she changes her mind?
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What is Lost by Abandonment of Principle
Alan Ryan on Richard Posner’s view of pragmatism and democracy.
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Moral Racism
When Other Races kill each other, western pundits blame the scars of colonialism.
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Lies on the Front Page and the Back
Why do journalists and comedians think they’re better than politicians?
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Nonsense
‘Religion, properly conceived, attempts to provide an account of all there is.’ Well no doubt, but it fails!
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Not the Same Old Thing
The state of scientific research into paranormal phenomena.
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Media Studies Easy? Surely Not!
It takes a lot of training to learn how to watch tv, you know.
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Perhaps All Dentists?
‘55% of people with post-graduate degrees (lawyers, doctors, dentists, and the like) believe in the Devil.’
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The James Dean of the Cold War
Orwell’s list was not like McCarthy’s little list, Timothy Garton Ash points out.
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Yale Meets the Union
Student awakened by chanting at 8 a.m. – it’s an outrage!
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Harsh Book Reviews, Again
But if the book is bad, what is the reviewer supposed to say?
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Martha Nussbaum on Genocide in Gujarat
Myth-making and falsification of history play a large part in Hindu nationalism and its terrors.
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Reburying Remains a Great Idea?
Forget rights and better living condtions, here are some bones.
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Did Habermas and Suhrkamp Skim?
If not, why did they change their minds about Ted Honderich’s book?
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Advanced Math? Wozzat?
Helping the bottom of the class is good, but so is fostering talent.
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‘Autistic’ Economics?
Insurgents say mathematical modelling excludes too much reality from economics.
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Embarrassing Mistake in ‘Ecstasy’ Research
Wrong drug given, study retracted from journal Science.