Now Heavy Former Ballerinas; People Who Daydream Obsessively of Rescuing Someone Famous; and many more. … 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.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Women On Top 
Sep 16th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Girls beat boys just about everywhere.… Read the rest
What Are Children For?
Sep 16th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Jobs, nappies, sleep, time, vomit, money, servants, shopping, sexism, age – it’s all a bit complicated.… Read the rest
Hire a Conservative!
Sep 16th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
What kind? By whose definition as of what date? And what if she changes her mind?… Read the rest
What is Lost by Abandonment of Principle
Sep 15th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Alan Ryan on Richard Posner’s view of pragmatism and democracy.… Read the rest
Moral Racism
Sep 15th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When Other Races kill each other, western pundits blame the scars of colonialism.… Read the rest
Lies on the Front Page and the Back
Sep 14th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Why do journalists and comedians think they’re better than politicians?… Read the rest
Not the Same Old Thing
Sep 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The state of scientific research into paranormal phenomena.… Read the rest
Nonsense
Sep 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Religion, properly conceived, attempts to provide an account of all there is.’ Well no doubt, but it fails!… Read the rest
Media Studies Easy? Surely Not!
Sep 12th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
It takes a lot of training to learn how to watch tv, you know.… Read the rest
Perhaps All Dentists?
Sep 12th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘55% of people with post-graduate degrees (lawyers, doctors, dentists, and the like) believe in the Devil.’… Read the rest
The James Dean of the Cold War
Sep 12th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Orwell’s list was not like McCarthy’s little list, Timothy Garton Ash points out.… Read the rest
Yale Meets the Union
Sep 11th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Student awakened by chanting at 8 a.m. – it’s an outrage!… Read the rest
Harsh Book Reviews, Again
Sep 11th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
But if the book is bad, what is the reviewer supposed to say?… Read the rest
Martha Nussbaum on Genocide in Gujarat
Sep 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Myth-making and falsification of history play a large part in Hindu nationalism and its terrors.… Read the rest
Reburying Remains a Great Idea?
Sep 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Forget rights and better living condtions, here are some bones.… Read the rest
Did Habermas and Suhrkamp Skim?
Sep 9th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
If not, why did they change their minds about Ted Honderich’s book?… Read the rest
Advanced Math? Wozzat?
Sep 9th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Helping the bottom of the class is good, but so is fostering talent.… Read the rest
‘Autistic’ Economics?
Sep 9th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Insurgents say mathematical modelling excludes too much reality from economics.… Read the rest
Embarrassing Mistake in ‘Ecstasy’ Research
Sep 9th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Wrong drug given, study retracted from journal Science.… Read the rest
