Fakher Haider abducted by armed men wearing masks, claiming to be police officers.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Aggressive Creationists at the Museum 
Sep 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘It is as if they aren’t listening.’… Read the rest
Move to Allow Religious Discrimination
Sep 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Planned amendment to Head Start bill will repeal provisions forbidding discrimination.… Read the rest
Several Books on Atheism
Sep 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Atheists have a lot of work to do.… Read the rest
The Debate Over Holocaust Memorial Day
Sep 21st, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Shalom Lappin on Sacranie’s false dichotomy.… Read the rest
Simon Wiesenthal
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘He continued to insist that what he sought was justice, not vengeance.’… Read the rest
Was the Holocaust Exceptional?
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Norman Geras on a particularity of the Nazi offence against humanity itself.… Read the rest
Iqbal Sacranie on Holocaust Memorial Day
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Mention of ‘intimidating smears of anti-semitism’ in the press, but none of boycott.… Read the rest
Simon Wiesenthal Has Died
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Holocaust survivor helped find Nazi war criminals, then fought prejudice against all people.… Read the rest
Simon Wiesenthal
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In all, he was believed to have brought 1100 war criminals to trial.… Read the rest
Carla del Ponte Accuses Vatican
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
UN prosecutor alleges Vatican is helping Croatian war crimes suspect evade capture.… Read the rest
The MCB and Holocaust Memorial Day
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Which genocides?… Read the rest
PM Adviser Cites ‘Sinister’ Group of Jews, Freemasons
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ahmad Thomson said the group saw Iraq war as a way to control the Middle East.… Read the rest
Gödel and Einstein
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Gödel’s theorems do not state that there are absolutely unprovable truths.… Read the rest
Carlin Romano on Probabilism and Possibilism
Sep 20th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Probabilism tends to protect the powerful and often puts the nonpowerful in danger.… Read the rest
Skepticism About Freud Reaches France
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
To be greeted by accusations of ‘scientism’ and not recognizing human complexity.… Read the rest
Reaction to ‘Must We Finish with Psychoanalysis?’
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In French, but too interesting not to post.… Read the rest
‘Faith-based’ Disaster
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Fema chooses religious charities in preference to secular ones, with dire results.… Read the rest
Rhetoric Trumps Action
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Bush sounded concerned about poverty, did not mention suspension of wage standards.… Read the rest
Hitchens Comments on the Encounter
Sep 19th, 2005 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
There is a sick and surreptitious fascination with people of a certain thuggish unscrupulousness.… Read the rest
