Has agreed to drop the title from her company’s advertising after a complaint to the industry watchdog.… 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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Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Ben Goldacre on McKeith 
Feb 12th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The advert allegedly breached two clauses of the code: ‘substantiation’ and ‘truthfulness’.… Read the rest
John Searle Interviewed
Feb 12th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Searle’s forte is his determination to see how science reformulates traditional questions of philosophy.… Read the rest
School Fights Niqab Case
Feb 12th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
School in 1995 ‘conspired in gender apartheid carried out in the name of “cultural inclusion”.’… Read the rest
Terry Sanderson Rebukes Clare College
Feb 12th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘We call on you to tell the would-be censors that their protests have been heard but that they will not prevail.’… Read the rest
Complete Coverage of McKeith
Feb 12th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Including links to Quackwatch and more.… Read the rest
Daniel Dennett and H Allen Orr on Dawkins
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They disagree.… Read the rest
They Have to Recruit People, You Know
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Haggard proves that the ‘homosexual agenda’ is so aggressive that it can recruit even the holiest.… Read the rest
The More Religious, the Less Willing to Reflect
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
For those who are religiously correct, critical reflection breeds doubt and must, therefore, be resisted.… Read the rest
College Officials ‘Utterly Distraught and Disgusted’
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Student publishes prophet cartoon; officials tell police, meet to decide what to do with evildoer.… Read the rest
Kenan Malik on the Ethics of Hybrid Embryos
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Time to stop pretending the moral high ground belongs to those who restrain scientific research.… Read the rest
Stephen Law on Moral Relativism
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Four reasons why it is fashionable, politically correct codswallop.… Read the rest
Nick Cohen on Unelected Unaccountable Lords
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Under Labour’s proposals, patronage and the disastrous influence of organised religion will remain.… Read the rest
Terry Sanderson on Clerics in the House of Lords
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No other western democracy gives religious representatives automatic seats as the UK does.… Read the rest
Shahid Malik Rebukes MCB Leadership
Feb 11th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Solely ‘defending’ Muslims reinforces the victim narrative that dominates Muslim discourse. … Read the rest
Head Defends Epithet-laced Textbook
Feb 10th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The school is owned, funded and run by the government of Saudi Arabia’ and located in Acton.… Read the rest
Portugal Considers Legal Abortion
Feb 10th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women can be sent to prison for up to three years for having an abortion.… Read the rest
Norman Levitt on Anti-science Right and Left
Feb 10th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Bush version is far more dangerous than the postmodernist version – but there is overlap.… Read the rest
Comment Parler des Livres que l’on n’a pas Lus
Feb 10th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
That’s how to talk about books you haven’t read. Answer: pretentiously, of course.… Read the rest
AI Condemns the Murder of Hrant Dink
Feb 10th, 2007 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Amnesty International called for the repeal of Act 301 and condemned his prosecution. … Read the rest
