The Right is also capable (to say the least) of judging truth claims via ideology instead of vice versa.… 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Inevitably links go out of date.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.
Michael Ruse on Matt Ridley 
Jul 20th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
‘…the nature-versus-nurture, biology-versus-culture, genes-versus-environment dichotomy has broken down.’… Read the rest
When in Doubt, Show Tits
Jul 19th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
French feminists attack Green campaign that features a female breast for no apparent reason.… Read the rest
Medieval History is Not Merely Ornamental
Jul 19th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Not that anyone really said it was, but the story got attention, so that helps.… Read the rest
The Hip-hop Archives
Jul 19th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Henry Louis Gates decides not to skip Harvard, rebuilds African-American Studies department.… Read the rest
The Absentation of Actuality
Jul 19th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is there a law that requires postmodernists to write badly?… Read the rest
Where Cheap Servants Come From
Jul 18th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Underpaid, easily-fired Third World women do the domestic work no one else wants to.… Read the rest
Cynthia Ozick on Azar Nafisi
Jul 18th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Theocratic tyranny, a bus full of writers on the edge of a cliff, vigilantes and fanatics take over the revolution.… Read the rest
Exclude Men but not Women?
Jul 17th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Is it a good idea to exclude men from sport to achieve gender equality, but not exclude women from university to achieve the same thing?… Read the rest
Line Between Religious Belief and Delusion
Jul 16th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
The second deficit means being unable to discard the impossible experience.… Read the rest
The Whig View of Religious History
Jul 15th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
From millions of gods to one – this is progress?… Read the rest
Do Tests Violate Children’s Rights?
Jul 14th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Emphasis on tests in UK ignores the needs of children, says UN envoy.… Read the rest
Post-post-post-postmodernism
Jul 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Shock-horror: Toby Litt says he’s not a postmodernist after all.… Read the rest
Fashionable Where, Exactly?
Jul 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
One prince’s attack on fashionable views is another historian’s conservative agenda.… Read the rest
Government advisers and biotech links
Jul 13th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Do biotech industry links undermine the independence of scientific advice?… Read the rest
The End of Section 28
Jul 12th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Thatcherite law that outlawed ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in schools has been abolished.… Read the rest
GM Explained
Jul 11th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Useful Guardian background article on the debate over genetically modified crops.… Read the rest
War With the Fuzzy-Wuzzies
Jul 11th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Imperialism is bad, yes, but we still like all the violence. So, do a revisionist version.… Read the rest
Epistemology is not the Only Subject
Jul 11th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Anglophone analytic philosophers got it wrong by disregarding the history of philosophy.… Read the rest
Abused Child Makes Good
Jul 10th, 2003 |
Filed by Ophelia Benson
Despite sexual abuse, imprisonment and religious persecution, Elizabeth I was no slouch as a queen.… Read the rest
