Doctors working in child protection accuse media of demonising paediatricians.… 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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A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
Too Many Stories in Skinner’s Box? 
Apr 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘The worst thing you can do in science and scholarship is make things up.’… Read the rest
Deborah Skinner Was Not a Lab Rat
Apr 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
B.F. Skinner’s daughter says Lauren Slater has recycled old rumours.… Read the rest
David Corfield Reviews Lauren Slater
Apr 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘It is one thing to “celebrate as story”; it would be another to peddle fabricated accounts.’… Read the rest
Women’s Alliance to Fight Fundamentalism
Apr 14th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Women’s International Federation Against Fundamentalisms and for Equality founded in Geneva.… Read the rest
Malaria, Africa and DDT
Apr 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is there a double standard? Is the risk from malaria greater than that from DDT?… Read the rest
Susan Haack on Coherence & Co
Apr 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Consistency, ‘foundherentism,’ cogency, novels, and remaining calm.… Read the rest
NY Review of Books on Islam and its Demons
Apr 13th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Considering ‘the religious populism that is sweeping the Muslim world.’… Read the rest
Susan Haack on Science and Religion
Apr 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They really are at odds, and science really is the more admirable enterprise.… Read the rest
‘What If’ History Has an Agenda
Apr 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
In the postmodern world of contingency and irony one narrative is as valid as another.… Read the rest
Parody From Another Direction?
Apr 12th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Again, sadly, no. They mean it.… Read the rest
What is Multiculturalism Anyway?
Apr 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Does it mean separateness, acceptance, learning from other cultures, inclusion?… Read the rest
Will Hutton on Fundamentalism
Apr 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When religion provides ‘meaning’ the need to impose it on others is strong.… Read the rest
Polly Toynbee on Multiculturalism
Apr 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Breaking with unctuous, unthinking platitudes about diversity.… Read the rest
To Be Young, Angry and Striking a Pose
Apr 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Maybe ‘different communities’ shouldn’t be treated differently after all.… Read the rest
Martha Nussbaum on Liberal Education
Apr 11th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Education that can liberate minds from bondage to mere habit and tradition.… Read the rest
Washington Post on Hindutva v. Scholarship
Apr 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Threats against US scholars such as Doniger, Laine and Courtright.… Read the rest
Rwanda Outlaws Ethnicity
Apr 10th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If awareness of ethnic differences can be learned, it can be unlearned.… Read the rest
Pope Causes Trouble Again
Apr 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
John Paul II says hospitals should tube-feed patients in persistent vegetative state.… Read the rest
The Economist on Bush v. Science
Apr 9th, 2004 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Politicians can cheat nature no more effectively than scientists can.’… Read the rest
