It’s been a year now.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Susan Greenfield Interview 
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is there a tension between popularisation (and celebrity) and serious research?… Read the rest
Putting the Boot In
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Clive James ponders Twain on Cooper, Macdonald on Cozzens, and finds it good.… Read the rest
Psychiatry No Better Than Astrology?
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Richard Bentall differs from Laing because he is a scientist.… Read the rest
Orthorexia Nervosa?
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Cooking food is not natural.’ Neither is living in a house or reading books. So?… Read the rest
A Scientist in Arts Faculty Territory
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Where opinion is sacred while facts have a long leash.… Read the rest
Postmodernists in the Bush Administration
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Truth is a construct, therefore who knows, maybe tax cuts for the rich will create jobs.… Read the rest
Radical Islam is Not Modern but Modernist
Sep 8th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Postmodernists despise facts as ‘positivist’ but they are a vital weapon, Terry Eagleton says.… Read the rest
The Quiche Party
Sep 7th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
When political commitments get confused with consumer choices, rhetoric is in play.… Read the rest
Non sequiturs
Sep 6th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘Science can’t provide all the answers.’ Oh and religion can?… Read the rest
Molière was Really Corneille?
Sep 6th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Statistics prove it! No they don’t, say scholars, and the argument is on.… Read the rest
The Myth of Repressed Memory
Sep 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Wendy Grossman interviews Elizabeth Loftus.… Read the rest
How Embarrassing
Sep 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Archaeologist’s worst nightmare – that 2000-year-old carving was done by one Barry Luxton in 1995… Read the rest
Calls to Make Hard Choices
Sep 5th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
They may be a mask for strategies no one wishes to acknowledge.… Read the rest
Ishtiaq Ahmed on Human Rights
Sep 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Does the adoption of the human rights programme means Westernisation?… Read the rest
Erin O’Connor on Creeping Illiteracy
Sep 4th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘There is no book worth reading that is not somehow partial to something.’… Read the rest
People Make Daft Mistakes
Sep 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Rational choice theory versus behaviouralists, prospect theory, the endowment effect; economics is not a placid field.… Read the rest
Bad Behaviour in Secondary Schools
Sep 3rd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Occasional violence and routine swearing and rudeness – is it any wonder teachers don’t stay?… Read the rest
Newton Rules
Sep 2nd, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Relativity, quantum mechanics, chaos theory have not made Newton passé. … Read the rest
