Bush administration puts industry officials in charge of worker safety regulations.… 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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US House Committee Hears About Wartime Lies 
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Egregious examples of officials’ twisting the truth for public relations in wartime.… Read the rest
More Complaint About ‘Strident’ Atheism
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Winston calls Dawkins insulting and patronizing; Grayling calls Winston’s claims tiresome guff.… Read the rest
Newspapers are Ditching Book Sections
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hey, books are expendable.… Read the rest
A C Grayling on the Debate Around String Theory
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lee Smolin enters an eloquent plea on behalf of the original thinkers, the sceptics, the eccentric minds, .… Read the rest
Jesus Love-Bombs You
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Believers are taught to emphasize personal experience rather than reasoning.… Read the rest
George Felis on What Atheism Isn’t
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A religion; a matter of faith.… Read the rest
Say What? Is This a Hoax?
Apr 25th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A PhD thesis consisting of a reality tv show that mocks two intellectually disabled guys?… Read the rest
Israel’s ‘Voluntary’ ‘Modesty’ Buses
Apr 24th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘This really is about positive discrimination, in women’s favour.’ Hence the need to hit them if they refuse.… Read the rest
Pittsburgh Imam on Death Penalty for ‘Defamation’
Apr 24th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No punishment for children though. ‘It’s a very merciful religion if you try to understand it.’… Read the rest
More Than 100 Women Arrested in Iran
Apr 24th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
For ‘dressing immodestly.’ The sluts.… Read the rest
David Halberstam 1934-2007
Apr 24th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
His dispatches infuriated policy makers, but they accurately reflected the realities on the ground.… Read the rest
50% of News Must be ‘Positive’
Apr 24th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
New managers tell Russia’s largest independent radio news network what’s what.… Read the rest
Zambian Conservationist Wins Goldman Prize
Apr 23rd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Hammerskjoeld Simwinga helps women, local communities and elephants all at once.… Read the rest
Pope Abolishes Limbo
Apr 23rd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It was a mere hypothesis, and not nice, so it goes. Next up: about this god fella…… Read the rest
Atheists are Splitters!
Apr 23rd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘New’ atheists are fundamentalists, says ‘humanist chaplain’.… Read the rest
Evangelist Saves Sinners From Enjoying Park
Apr 23rd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘All of you will burn in hellfire, so sayeth the Lord,’ Hilson informed a toddler. [The Onion]… Read the rest
Gen-X Humanism for the Passionately Confused
Apr 23rd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Cynical misappropriation of Harvard’s national reputation as a way of bottling humanism. … Read the rest
A Hazy Notion of Civic Responsibility
Apr 22nd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
A class divide is opening up between taxpayers and tax avoiders; Labour is on the wrong side.… Read the rest
Stephen Law Interviews Nigel Warburton
Apr 22nd, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What is clarity, and why is it important in philosophy?… Read the rest
