Philip Morris exploited institional fears of losing research funding in order to preserve financial ties to academic medicine.… 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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Human Tissue Controls Rejected 
Oct 25th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Plans to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been defeated in the UK House of Lords. … Read the rest
Dark Ages Return in Pennsylvania
Oct 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Intelligent Design on the science curriculum.… Read the rest
Reeve in Stem Cell Advert
Oct 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
An appeal from beyond the grave.… Read the rest
UN Debate on Cloning Draws to a Close
Oct 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Two different resolutions are on the table.… Read the rest
Derrida and Psychoanalysis
Oct 21st, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Derrida put the text on the couch.… Read the rest
Nannying is Not Such a Bad Thing
Oct 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Julian Baggini on freedom, Britney and papal infallibility.… Read the rest
Derrida-ing Then not Derrida-ing
Oct 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Theory’ as shibboleth.… Read the rest
‘Theory’ Began to Seem Banal
Oct 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Theory’ was seen as a political weapon. Why? No one knows. [link fixed]… Read the rest
Joys and Sorrows of Independent Scholarship
Oct 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Irregular income if any, inaccessible libraries; but it’s worth it.… Read the rest
Hannah Arendt Was Not Entirely Wrong
Oct 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Not even as wrong as this article claims.… Read the rest
The Scottish Enlightenment
Oct 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Conservative and radical at the same time.… Read the rest
More on Derrida
Oct 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Reading familiar works against the grain.… Read the rest
Anti-Semitism at Frankfurt Book Fair?
Oct 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Holocaust denial in Frankfurt? Uh oh.… Read the rest
Eagleton Defends Derrida Against Philistinism
Oct 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
He loosened up such paranoid antitheses as inside and outside.… Read the rest
Torn Between Contempt and Hilarity
Oct 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Nicholas Lezard approves Francis Wheen’s attack on unreason.… Read the rest
The Modernity of Muslim Fundamentalism
Oct 16th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The French are better at political anatomy.… Read the rest
Spiked on Derrida
Oct 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Insistence on multiplicity of meanings more attractive to literary critics than philosophers.… Read the rest
Review of Dawkins’ The Ancestor’s Tale
Oct 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Seeing the world in a fresh, exhilarating way.… Read the rest
