Fast Formula Wild Pink and Fast Formula Horny have been taken off the shelves.… 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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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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
MHRA Press Release on Herbal Sex-meds
Nov 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Only licensed medicines may be advertised to the public.’… Read the rest
Archbishop Gets His Way
Nov 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhen he says jump, BA jumps.… Read the rest
‘Bad Science’ on Horny Goat Weed
Nov 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWhole grains, ‘holistic’ techniques, colonic irrigation, The Peniscope – it all adds up.… Read the rest
David Colquhoun Looks at Snoring Studies
Nov 25th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Oh dear: looks like yet another undisclosed financial interest in a clinical study.’… Read the rest
Animals and Mental States
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonEvidence that psychology is conserved between human and nonhuman species.… Read the rest
Muslim Scholars Call for End to FGM
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSaid governments should enforce existing laws against the practice. … Read the rest
WHO Urges Vatican to Hurry Up on Condoms
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Could we please have this debate in a hurry. Lives are at risk and time is short.’… Read the rest
Abuse of Women in Afghanistan
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIn many areas women are viewed as chattels and beaten accordingly.… Read the rest
Kirklees Council Sacks Aishah Azmi
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTribunal dismissed her claims of religious discrimination and harassment on religious grounds. … Read the rest
Sexist, Homophobic Bullying of Teachers
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSexist jokes and put-downs made female pupils feel degraded too, the NUT said. … Read the rest
BA Must Grovel to Religion
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘People of faith expect not just tolerance, but respect. BA needs to show it.’… Read the rest
Jersey Looks for Water on Advice of Diviners
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDrilling, supervision, analysis and interpretation costs expected to be about £61,000.… Read the rest
Jersey Fails to Find Water With Help of Diviners
Nov 24th, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDiviners said it was there, but when boreholes were drilled, it wasn’t.… Read the rest
Steven Pinker Asks for Less Faith, More Reason
Nov 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonUniversities are about reason; faith – believing something without good reasons – has no place except in a religious institution.… Read the rest
University and Class
Nov 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Class values riddle British universities much more confusingly than elsewhere.’… Read the rest
The Quiverfull Movement – Breeding for God
Nov 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonQuiverfull parents have many children, homeschool, favor male rule and female submissiveness. … Read the rest
Swallowing a Toad for Breakfast
Nov 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTeaching Schopenhauer in prison can get tricky.… Read the rest
Jonathan Wolff on Writing and Repetition
Nov 23rd, 2006 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Repetition and boredom, then, are our trademark. Excellent. I shall go out and tell everyone I know. Many times.’… Read the rest