At least the teacher is ‘bothered’ that the lyrics refer to women as bitches and hoes. ‘It’s dehumanising,’ he shrewdly notices.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Not All Destruction is Human-Made
Fire storm near Canberra destroys observatory and all its equipment.
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A Global Perspective
Depletion of fish stocks not a problem, fisheries scientist says, if future generations like plankton stew.
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Moon Landing Skeptics
You know how the gummint is, they cover up alien landings in Roswell, so why not fake landings on the moon?
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All Over the Map
The Observer gets the views of thoughtful people on war with Iraq. Responses are not predictable.
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New Admission Criteria
One side sees disadvantage and discrimination, the other sees a need to take more variables into account.
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Not a Philosopher but a Con Artist
A rude look at Derrida and the worshipful movie about him.
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Eat the Dog
Very witty quiz on ethics in the Guardian.
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How Does He Know?
‘But if you begin to think about it you can start to feel like the ashamed schoolchild who has just been caught drawing smutty pictures.’
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Yes But How Does it Work?
Even evidence is not enough, in the absence of a theory, Michael Shermer explains.
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Confusion for Future Historians
Powell thinks it’s Powell who tames the President, Blair thinks it’s Blair. So history is written.
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Positive Discrimination
Not quotas but targets; European human rights laws; poverty and privilege. Difficult questions without clear answers.
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When is a degree not a degree?
Are some university degrees more equal than others?
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University Press Publisher as Deity
The Boston Globe interviews an editor at Harvard University Press.
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Case Study in Scientific Disagreement
The Danish panel says Political Scientist Lomborg, ‘strangely for a statistician’, uses the word ‘plausible’ often without attaching any probability to it. And there is more…
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What Ivory Tower?
Education and politics are and should be intimately connected.
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Dishonesty or at Least Incomprehension
Danish panel says Lomborg did not comprehend the science in his cheerful environmental book.
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Where Are the Young People With Nose Studs?
Should the National Theatre be required to attract yoof?
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‘Scientific dishonesty’?
A Danish political scientist is rebuked for optimistic book on environmental issues.
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Is ‘science for citizens’ real science?
The jury is out on radical plans to restructure high school science curricula in the UK.