Nobody’s mind will actually change, for – as usual – civil disturbances will re-affirm and not challenge views already held.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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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Ok so truth matters, but what is it?
The anti-relativist tried for a philosophical fait accompli, but seems to have taken some short cuts in so doing.
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Dealing with complaints about homeopathy websites
ASA has told marketers of homeopathic treatments and services to remove claims that refer to, or imply, the efficacy of homeopathy.
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Lawsuit against homeopathy manufacturer
Yes: a manufacturer of a homeopathic medicine is being sued because said homeopathic medicine doesn’t work.
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39 sent to jail for serving food during Ramadan
The Pakistan government has prohibited eating and drinking in public during the fasting hours of Ramadan to ‘ensure the sanctity of the month’.
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Boys pretend to be possessed to rape girls
Four boys who pretended to be possessed by gods in order to trick a teenage girl into sex have been charged in court in Singapore.
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Maryam Namazie on Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As an atheist herself, Ayaan must know full well that all religions are misogynist. How can she advocate Christianity for others?
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Silencing for “safety”
Solidarity amongst ordinary people – wherever we live – is the most powerful weapon we’ll ever have when facing totalitarian movements.
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BBC solemnly reports on “demonic activity”
“Exorcists point to risky behaviour such as practising yoga, reading horoscopes, and an increase in new age forms of spiritualism.”
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Katha Pollitt on birth control
And the people who say “If they want to have a good time, why not let them pay for it?”
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Suspected “honour” killing victim rebelled
So she was strangled in front of her 3-year-old child, who was then left alone with her body for 15 hours.
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Meera Nanda on the Breivik-India connection
Some of the most revered personalities of the Hindu Right have actively cultivated and nurtured links with the European New Right.
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Warren Jeffs found guilty of child bride rapes
Prosecutor will present evidence of hundreds of other “bad acts,” including that Jeffs has 78 plural wives, and that 24 of them were under the age of 17.
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Is atheism the opposite of skepticism?
Religion is a walled garden, within which skeptics are not supposed to tread, because their skepto-rays will make the foliage of faith wither and die.
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UK: creationist academy passes to interview stage
The church was up front about its plans with regards to teaching evolution…
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WLUML dossier on the struggle for secularism [pdf]
Articles by Marieme Hélie-Lucas, Karima Bennoune, Gita Sahgal, Pragna Patel, Maryam Namazie, many more.
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BBC finds godless priests in the Netherlands
“There must be ‘something’ between heaven and earth, but to call it ‘God’, and even ‘a personal God’, for the majority of Dutch is a bridge too far.”
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Last rites for the church in Ireland
The deceit and cover-up of child abuse detailed in the Ryan, Murphy and Cloyne reports have transformed passive indifference into white-hot rage.
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Egypt’s Islamists mobilising mass support
It is already clear that the liberal-minded parties are not doing well as the competition hots up.
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“Rock Beyond Belief” will go ahead
The event was planned in response to Fort Bragg’s overwhelming support of the Billy Graham Evangelical Association’s Christian evangelical concert.
