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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.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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No Link Between Autism Rise and MMR Jab
Improved diagnosis rather than increased incidence, post hoc versus propter hoc, media influencing beliefs – the usual.
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Stupid Right-wing Books Flourish
Note that only ‘liberals’ are the elite. And Bush & Co. are…?
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Revenge Disguised as Literature
Got a grudge? Write a novel and get your own back.
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History Doesn’t Always Agree
The verdict of history is no more likely to agree with us than that of the present.
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Mainstreams and Ghettoes
Julian Baggini on the differences between US and UK philosophy.
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Memory is a Minefield
Especially if your research casts doubt on the validity of memories of alien abductions.
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Down the Memory Hole
Russia’s nostalgic-nationalist view of its past keeps Dr. Zhivago off the syllabus.
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Habermas and Derrida Interviewed
Two philosophers talk about terrorism.
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Levy’s Sartre Book Not a Huge Hit
‘…this unbelievably stupid, ill-written, completely disorganised and monstrously rambling tome.’
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We’re Back
Mystifying disappearance of B and W at an end. We hope.
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The Idiots Will Take it From Here
‘The West Wing’ is less about ideology than it is about the role of intelligence in politics.
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Vicious Association of Education with Class
‘British schools have done precious little education but they have done an awful lot of socialisation.’
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Arguing from the Wallet
An entertainment executive’s political ‘analysis’ is both incoherent and self-interested.
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Sinbad the Bland
US academic says new Sinbad movie enforces status quo stereotypes.
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Habermas and Derrida Have a Plan
Can emotional European patriotism be created? If so, can a rationalist and a deconstructionist do the job?
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Hello? Remember Africa?
Why is the left so indifferent to what’s happening in the Congo and Liberia?
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High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity
Class, poverty, consumerism, fast food, ‘ironic’ advertising, exercise just a little – it all adds up.
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High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity
Class, poverty, consumerism, fast food, ‘ironic’ advertising, exercise just a little – it all adds up.
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What Are Long-term Impacts of No GM Foods?
‘We cannot know everything’ but there are risks in not using GM crops too.