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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Inevitably links go out of date.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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His blood type made him do it
Japanese minister resigns, saying his blood type made him a more abrasive personality and accounted for his rude remarks.
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Gaps are closing
Creationists’ room for manoeuvre, when citing the evidence, continues to diminish.
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Cult leader accused of killing child for being “gay”
The kid was four years old.
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Toronto: public schools allow formal prayer services
Complete with dirty menstruating girls sitting apart at the back.
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Faith healers who claim they can cure cancer
ThetaHealing have about 600 practitioners in the UK who charge up to £100 per session.
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Waldorf Steiner schools and low vaccine uptake
In anthroposophy, disease is seen as an often necessary event in life and as an opportunity for development and maturation.
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“Faith leaders” say RE lessons are at risk
“Leaders” “representing” Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists said they were fraffly worried about it.
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Support Nadia El Fani and freedom of conscience
A Tunisian woman who dares to unbelieve in god.
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Hundreds protest Islamists in Tunis
Demonstrators voiced concerns over the influence of the Islamist movement Ennahda which they accuse of speaking “a double language.”
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Ex-archbish will miss News of the World
It was a nice little platform for his reactionary views.
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Washington Post on Day Against Stoning
International Day Against Stoning on July 11 to demand Sakineh Ashtiani’s immediate release and an end to stoning in Iran.
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Support for International Day against Stoning
From Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Nigeria, Sweden, and more.
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Update on Ashtiani case
The International Committee against Stoning has received reports from within the prison that Ashtiani has attempted suicide.
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Against religious freedom
Austin Dacey and Colin Kroposke argue that there are workable, constructive alternatives to the automatic accommodation of religion as such.
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Iran escalates use of capital punishment
The mullahs are fighting to prevent pro-democracy movements from taking hold in the country.
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Marcotte on another round of Silence the Feminist
It has it all; Sarah Palin’s PR team would be proud.
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Why Harrods won’t be hiring PZ
Full makeup at all time: base, blusher, full eyes (not too heavy), lipstick, lip liner and gloss are worn at all time and maintained discreetly.
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14 Fox News propaganda tricks
And not just Fox News, either.
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Court orders immediate end to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
A federal court ruled the US military has to immediately stop enforcing a ban on gays serving openly in uniform.