Observers have declared the vote peaceful and transparent.… 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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Debate on ‘Faith’ Schools 
Nov 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
British Humanist Association education officer debates Bishop of Guildford.… Read the rest
Legal Action Against God, Resident in Heaven
Nov 11th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘God even claimed and received from me various goods and prayers in exchange for forgiveness.’ Cheater.… Read the rest
Amartya Sen on Science, Argument and Scepticism
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dismayed that links between heterodoxy and scientific creativity get so little attention.… Read the rest
Navid Shahzad on Amartya Sen
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Sen continues to stretch his prodigious talent as professor of both philosophy and economics at Harvard.… Read the rest
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Winning Election in Liberia
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Has 59% of vote. Inexplicably, BBC uses epithet in headline.… Read the rest
Chris Mooney on Abductive Reasoning
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Susan Clancy investigates how otherwise sane people come to accept abduction accounts.… Read the rest
Ziauddin Sardar on Hizb ut-Tahrir
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The caliphate of Hizb ut-Tahrir’s vision can be established only by doing violence to the rest of the world.… Read the rest
Run to P.O.: Stamp ‘Offensive’ to Hindus is Off
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Royal Mail now recognizes it should have consulted (read groveled) further.… Read the rest
Henri Mensonge Challenges the Coital Cogito
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He out-Foucaulted Foucault, out Derridaed Derrida, and out-Deleuzed-and-Guattaried Deleuze and Guattari.” … Read the rest
Ask Philosophers
Nov 10th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Questions. It helps them get out more.… Read the rest
Yesss!
Nov 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Dover, Pennsylvania school board voted out of office.… Read the rest
Clean Sweep of ID Proponents
Nov 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Repudiation of first school district in US to order introduction of ID in a science class curriculum.… Read the rest
E O Wilson on Biology or Religion
Nov 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The formulation of intelligent design is a default argument advanced in support of a non sequitur.… Read the rest
Legal Equality and de Facto Racism
Nov 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It is not the law that decides every aspect of daily life: people do. They’re not always colour-blind.… Read the rest
Kansas Board of Education Blows It
Nov 9th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rules 6 to 4 that science classes in public schools should include teaching of ID.… Read the rest
No Intifada, No Cause, Just Gang Stuff
Nov 8th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Once two or three districts had their night on the news, every other quartier wanted to follow.… Read the rest
Three Muslims Killed in Hindu Attack on Village
Nov 8th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why? Rumours that cows had been slaughtered for the Islamic Eid-al-Fitr celebrations.… Read the rest
Vatican Urges People to Have Many Children
Nov 8th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Many, many, many children.… Read the rest
Fuss Over Sunday Shopping
Nov 8th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
No, no, shop after work, or during lunch hour, or never.… Read the rest
