Officials say rioting is also about youths simply ‘having a go’ at the police. And women on crutches.… 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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Cardinal Says ‘Faithful’ Should Listen to Science
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBut then demands that science listen to religion as ‘an expert voice’. Expert in what?… Read the rest
House Republicans Work to Cut Food Stamps
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonMust pay for upper bracket tax cuts somehow.… Read the rest
Paul Gross on Science Standards [pdf]
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDraft Science Framework for the
2009 NAEP gets a C – it needs work.… Read the rest
Scott McLemee on the Lisbon Eearthquake
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonVoltaire was sarcastic, Rousseau was unabomberish, Kant pondered gas pockets.… Read the rest
The Electromagnetic Chaos Eliminator
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlso magnetic toe rings, crocodile protein peptide, balancing vibration.… Read the rest
Letters to Guardian on Chomsky Interview
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonFrom Chomsky, and Kemal Pervanic, who survived the Omarska concentration camp.… Read the rest
Melanie Phillips Misunderstands Epidemiology
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonScience is all about the error bar, a graphic representation of the uncertainties in the data.… Read the rest
Recent Communique From Animal Liberation Front
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia Benson‘Associate with HLS and we will ruin your life.’… Read the rest
Cass Sunstein Takes a Look at Alito’s Dissents
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe is often more conservative than his colleagues.… Read the rest
We Live in 2005, not 905
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonDanish cartoonists dare to tease the prophet. Marches ensue. … Read the rest
Quantum Mechanics Must be Wrong
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOr maybe Mills got his math wrong, or maybe his critics did, or maybe not.… Read the rest
Guy Takes 15 Years to Start Questioning Moonism
Nov 4th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonStill, better late than never.… Read the rest
Muslim Domestic Violence Cases are Different
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOr so police are told in Victoria, Australia. Muslim women not pleased.… Read the rest
Iran Fires Diplomats in Purge of Liberals
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAmbassadors to London, Paris, Berlin and UN mediated between Iran and Europe over nuclear programme. … Read the rest
Norm Geras on the Reductions of the Left
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonCategory of ‘imperialism’ so exhausts the thinking of part of the left as to lock it into regrettable positions.… Read the rest
Emma Brockes Interviews Noam Chomsky
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThings get bad-tempered over Bosnia and Srebrenica.… Read the rest
Well Why Bother Then?
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBush is widely expected to pardon Libby if he is convicted.… Read the rest
McMartin Preschool Case: ‘I Lied”
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonIf he gave an answer they didn’t like, they asked again until he gave the right one.… Read the rest
E O Wilson: Can Biology Do Better Than ‘Faith’?
Nov 3rd, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonRapprochement between science and religion may be neither possible nor desirable.… Read the rest