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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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New atheists are bad newsflash
New atheism is “an ideology that maintains that religion is not just flawed, but evil.” It’s strident and harmful. Tell everyone.
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Skepticlawyer on the collapse of the DSK case
The prosecutors would have been trying to convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt of a witness they themselves did not believe beyond reasonable doubt.
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Pakistan: man rapes girl age 2
Farmer tells workers to convert to Islam, they refuse, his son age 18 kidnaps and rapes their daughter. Allah is merciful.
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Ghana: gay rights coalition fights back
The Western Region Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo, made an order for the ‘immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the (Western) region.’
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Glenn Beck explains god’s way of messaging
God tells us things via earthquakes and hurricanes, like “look what I can do” and “be prepared.”
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JREF offers challenge to celebrity “psychics”
“James Van Praagh and Allison DuBois have turned the huckster art of ‘cold reading’ into a multi-million-dollar industry.”
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Laurent Laveder
The guy who did those amazing moon photos.
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“Housewives, shut up”
Study finds boys think talking about problems is unhelpful; media report this as girls talk too much. Brilliant.
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James Wood on “the New Atheism”
Aggressive, strident, simplistic, Terry Eagleton, practice, Wittgenstein, literalism, parasitic, militant, warfare, polemic, metaphor.
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Hitchens on Libya
It was particularly satisfying to see the use as real space of areas that had been reserved for that special kind of degradation – the rally for The Leader.
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The wit and wisdom of Simon Jenkins
When protecting civilians from crimes against humanity shades into the issue of removing the regime responsible, it arguably is our business.
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Boko Haram says it bombed UN building in Abuja
The car bomb killed at least 18 people. Boko Haram is fighting for the establishment of Sharia in Nigeria
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Atos explains the threats to CarerWatch
It was a five-month-old link on the CarerWatch forum.
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Frank Schaeffer on Michele Bachmann
She knows she signed up to a biblical teaching that is misogynistic to the core, and that she has to hide that fact.
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Lesbian fired from son’s Boy Scout troop
She told the scoutmaster her partner was a woman; no problem; but then a Christian zealot found out and pitched a fit.
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Norwegian imam: behead those who don’t fast
Imprison those who don’t pray 5 times a day. This guy wants to open a school.
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Shahbaz Taseer kidnapped in Lahore
His father, Salman Taseer, was murdered by an Islamist bodyguard last December.
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Researching the minds of non-believers
Sociologist Phil Zuckerman says secularists tend to be more ethical than religious people. On average, they are more commonly opposed to the death penalty, war and discrimination.
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PZ on more accommodationist woofle
It’s a frightful mistake to say Rick Perry is ignorant. Frightful.