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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Saudis deport radical Islamist to Norway
Wait…what?
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Pres Jonathan orders military to end unrest in Jos
More than 100 people have been killed in Plateau state in the past two weeks in
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Numerous holes in the oversight of scientific publishing
A committee has been trying to find out what was happening at Duke that allowed the problems to continue undetected for so long.
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“Shaman” jailed for supplying psychedelic “cancer drug”
“If this drug had been given to someone who was weakened through cancer it could
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Vyckie Garrison on the new style of quiverfull courtship
As Quiverfull Believers search for the truly “biblical model” for godly marriage, ideas about courtship and “betrothal” are becoming increasingly savage and brutish.
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Mississippi voters can decide ‘personhood’ of embryo
The measure would amend the constitution to extend “personhood” to the unborn, likely rendering abortions illegal in the state if upheld.
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The problem with dressing a toddler like a prostitute
If a producer from Toddler and Tiaras calls you, that is not a good thing.
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Science, The Tea Party and The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Tea Party members are much more likely to say that they are “very well informed” about global warming than the other groups.
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Cristina Odone threatens Christian revenge
If you make the Christians angry they will vote you out of office as they did Evan Harris so neener neener.
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Groupthink is not simple
When people conform to group expectations, they are not concealing their own preferences; they actually have aligned their minds.
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What would Jesus ban?
At the very least, the Advertising Standards Authority seems to have an alarmingly low threshold as to what constitutes “offence” where religion is concerned.
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Shafilea Ahmed’s parents charged with her murder
The inquest heard she was a bright and intelligent young woman who wanted to go
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Church of Ireland in fits over gay clergy
The development has made the Church of Ireland the latest battleground in the Anglican debate about clergy in gay relationships.
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Six people hanged in Iran yesterday
Three of them were convicted of “sodomy.”
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NHS reforms: is support as strong as Cameron claims?
Full Fact presents some facts.
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Jesus phone advert banned
Advertising Standards Authority said Phones 4U ad was “disrespectful” to “the Christian faith” and must not be used again. Company apologized to everyone everywhere.
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Broken Daughter on “dying to self”
” I grew angrier and angrier with the God who hated me so much for wanting a few minutes of peace and silence.”
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The Skeptic’s Dictionary Newsletter
Quack of the month award to Michael Longo for his “pages of truth,” his “centering tree chair,” and especially his neo-Hegelian page of truth art charts.
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Molly Ivins can’t say that about Rick Perry, can she?
“Now he’s trying to disguise the fact that the schools are in free-fall by proposing that we teach creationism in biology classes.”
