Offering a god of the gaps promotes public confusion about what science does and does not tell us about the universe.… Read the rest
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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Russell Blackford: There is Only One World 
Jun 17th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is no good reason to think a ‘transcendent world’ exists, or that religion can inform us about one.… Read the rest
Turn Off That Light!
Jun 17th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Motion sensors turn on lights in hallway, so Orthodox couple are imprisoned in their flat over the sabbath.… Read the rest
Jesus and Mo Find the Barmaid Too Shrill
Jun 17th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She plans to hire a voice coach.… Read the rest
Bunting on the Woman Who Hates God
Jun 16th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The kind of strident atheism which Benson epitomises intrigues me. It’s driven by a curious intensity…’… Read the rest
It’s Not Religion, I Tell You!
Jun 16th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Just because people say it’s religion when they kill you, that doesn’t make it so!… Read the rest
Chiropractors Told to Take Down Their Websites
Jun 16th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Because of a ‘witch hunt against chiropractors…if you have a website, take it down NOW.’… Read the rest
Toadying and Sycophancy
Jun 16th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The greatest exponent of alternative medicine is the future monarch. A little royal patronage can be powerful.… Read the rest
Improbable Science on Charles’s Foundation
Jun 16th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A one-sided affair devoted to misrepresentation of evidence and the promotion of magic medicine.… Read the rest
Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
Jun 15th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
PZ Myers reviews a new book on the subject.… Read the rest
Homeopathy Awareness Week
Jun 15th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Homeopaths have been promoting homeopathic sugar pills to treat or prevent malaria and HIV in Africa.… Read the rest
Homeopathy Awareness: Gloria Thomas
Jun 15th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Judge ruled most of the pictures cannot be made public, because they are too horrible.… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on the Holocaust Museum Killer
Jun 15th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He hated Bill O’Reilly of Fox News and neocons as much as the New York Times and Obama.… Read the rest
The Real ‘Islamophobia’
Jun 15th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The explosion rocked the complex, which includes a mosque, library, classrooms, offices and student accommodation.… Read the rest
All Serious Historians Line Up
Jun 14th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To agree with James Hallam on science and religion.… Read the rest
Who Goes to a Creationist Museum?
Jun 14th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No prizes for the answer.… Read the rest
Another Uppity Woman on God v Women
Jun 14th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
She never understood why her kick-ass grandmother accepted Greek Orthodox dogma about women being second class humans.… Read the rest
Cardinal Uninspired by Blair Faith Foundation
Jun 14th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Blair thinks religious ‘leaders’ should rethink gay rights, but Catholic thinking is ‘rather different.’ Yes.… Read the rest
Does Religion Have Special Epistemic Authority?
Jun 14th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Are there questions that science can’t answer while religion can? Well, what do you mean by ‘answer’?… Read the rest
Russell Blackford on NOMA
Jun 14th, 2009 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Neither science nor religion can decide what the ultimate point of morality should be.… Read the rest
