She has already made some changes to an enclosure to ‘maximise good energy.’… 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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Stan Persky on Dawkins and Baggini on God
Feb 20th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Though I don’t agree with believers, I have considerable empathy for their yearnings.’… Read the rest
Partial Free Secondary Education in Uganda
Feb 19th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany students have been dropping out of secondary school because of the high cost of school fees.… Read the rest
Dominionists are Different From Fundamentalists
Feb 19th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonChris Hedges argues that dominionism is ur-Fascism.… Read the rest
Can You Do Philosophy on a Weblog?
Feb 19th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonNigel Warburton says one of the best ways of conceptualising blogs is as published commonplace books.… Read the rest
Arizona Bill Would Forbid Academics to
Feb 19th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAdvocate ‘one side of a social, political, or cultural issue that is a matter of partisan controversy.’… Read the rest
Hossein Derakhshan on Internet Censorship in Iran
Feb 19th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMany reformist-backed websites were filtered in the past couple of years.… Read the rest
Alok Jha on a Worked-up Ethical Debate
Feb 19th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOpposition to creation of animal-human hybrid embryos for stem cell research is irrational.… Read the rest
Indiana State University Plans to Economize
Feb 18th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIs a university without philosophy and physics really a university?… Read the rest
‘I won’t be happy until I lose my legs’
Feb 18th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘I have something called body identity integrity disorder.’… Read the rest
‘Voice’ of the Muslim Community is Always Male
Feb 17th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMuslim society, Gina Khan says, is based on male domination and the oppression of women. … Read the rest
Supporters Join Gina Khan
Feb 17th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘It’s not right that the spokesman from the Central Mosque should be able to talk for us all.’… Read the rest
Bomb Kills Polio Immunization Official in Pakistan
Feb 17th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe was returning from a meeting of tribal elders to persuade them to end opposition to immunization.… Read the rest
David Aaronovitch Reviews Nick Cohen
Feb 17th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonExploration of a perverse phenomenon, in which pacifism turned into a tolerance of Nazism.… Read the rest
Rebecca Weisser Reviews Nick Cohen
Feb 17th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHis ambition is to show how the Left of the 20th century ended up supporting the far Right of the 21st.… Read the rest
Ben Goldacre on Patrick Holford
Feb 17th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Dealing with Holford is like playing Bad Science Bingo.’… Read the rest
Kenyan Principal Expels Uncircumcised Boys
Feb 16th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTaboos, bullying, tradition, public institutions, parents, expense.… Read the rest
Oddities of Texas Legislature
Feb 16th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEvolution is the Pharisee Religion; Einstein and Sagan were Kabbalists; Hollywood did it.… Read the rest
Brian Opera Awakes Blasphemy Worries
Feb 16th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘It has got to be offensive to anyone who values music as means of expressing great ideas.’… Read the rest
Congress Considers Armenian Genocide Bill
Feb 16th, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTurkey rejects the genocide label, argues that 300,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife.… Read the rest