A movie full of platitudes about cultural diversity and self-esteem – the counter-Fahrenheit 911?… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Not so Fast, There, Kennewick Man 
Jul 23rd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Army Corps of Engineers is still resisting scientific study of KM.… Read the rest
Chris Mooney on ‘Sound Science’
Jul 22nd, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Conservatives using conflict over fish to gut the science behind Endangered Species Act. … Read the rest
Motion on Middlebrook on Hughes
Jul 21st, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Compromised by lack of proper interest in the poems as such.… Read the rest
Kennewick Man Case May be Over
Jul 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Tribes have decided not to appeal to Supreme Court, so KM will not be reburied.… Read the rest
Martha Nussbaum Interview
Jul 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Communitarianism is rooted in idea of homogeneous groups defined as ‘normal’ – shame for the others.… Read the rest
Carlin Romano on Literary Reading
Jul 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Could newspapers and their cultural coverage have an influence?… Read the rest
Multiculti for the Old South
Jul 20th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
So this is where blather about identity and diversity gets you.… Read the rest
Who Does the Dying in Wars Against Tyrants?
Jul 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
And who does the dying if the tyrants stay? Eve Garrard looks at the difficulty.… Read the rest
Animal Research
Jul 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Protests and vandalism make research using animals difficult.… Read the rest
Insane People Run Across US
Jul 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Ultra athletes run ultra far in ultra events thus demonstrating ultra lunacy.… Read the rest
Robert Owen Discovered the Moa
Jul 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Reconstructed iguanadon & archaeopteryx, and disagreed with Darwin.… Read the rest
Hansard Report on Blogging
Jul 19th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
New research shows that blogging can increase transparency and accessibility of parliamentarians.… Read the rest
‘What is not possible is not to choose’
Jul 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Julian Baggini on the Kanto-Sartrean background of political emphasis on autonomy.… Read the rest
US Witholds Funds From UN Population Agency
Jul 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Lack of evidence no bar to decision that will cost lives.… Read the rest
No Other Nation Has Witheld Funds
Jul 18th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The Netherlands and others have increased donations to compensate for US reduction of funds.… Read the rest
US Scientists Forbidden to Attend AIDS Conference
Jul 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘It is anti-intellectual and it is interfering with scientists and the scientific process’… Read the rest
Royals Have Reason to Fear Modernity
Jul 17th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Change is hazardous for the next incumbent of an office built on mystical tradition and continuity. … Read the rest
