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An Equal Among Gods
August 23, 2019 ·Is Donald Trump’s penchant for saying mind-blowingly awful/offensive/dangerous/ridiculous/dishonest/stupid things actually part of a devious strategy to distract us from “what’s really going on”? Benjamin Radford considers this position, and roundly rejects it. In Free Inquiry, Mark Kolsen introduces us to 18th-century American poet Philip Freneau, a figure whose atheism, Kolsen says, has been ignored. For …
Yours Truly Didn’t Disappear—Khashoggi-like—at Turin Shroud Conference
August 23, 2019 ·The 2019 International Conference “Science, Theology and the Turin Shroud” was held August 14–17 at Redeemer University College in Canada. Despised by some Shroud zealots as the author of Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983, updated 1998), I was billed as a presenter, but fears of a possible tragic outcome were whispered in skeptical …
The Trump ‘Distraction’ Quasi-Conspiracy
August 22, 2019 · 1One common claim about Donald Trump is that he often says and does things not only for effect, but with the specific goal of distracting the public and news media from something else he wants to keep hidden. The claims have circulated for years, especially on social media; for example one Facebook post recently stated …
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Texas Messed with Us. We Will Mess Right Back.
August 22, 2019When religious Americans get married, they can have their unions solemnized by an officiant who reflects their core beliefs and values. We believe that nonreligious Americans deserve that same right, which is why the Center for Inquiry trains and certifies Secular Celebrants and has waged and won groundbreaking legal victories in Indiana and Illinois that …
TAKE ACTION: Don’t Let Chiropractors Scam Medicare Patients
August 15, 2019Dear Friend of CFI: Last month, a gift to the chiropractic lobby was introduced in Congress. The Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act (H.R. 3654), introduced on July 9 by Representatives Brian Higgins (D-NY) and Tom Reed (R-NY), would force Medicare to cover all services that the chiropractic industry claims to be within its pseudoscientific repertoire and, …
I’ve Got a Fever, and the Only Cure is More CSICON!
July 29, 2019Are you protected against the pseudoscience epidemic??? Outbreaks of antivaxxers, fake medicine, psychic scammers, and science denial are cropping up all across media, politics, and popular culture, and the best way to protect yourself and others is to get inoculated with a healthy dose of skepticism. It’s time for CSICon 2019 in Las Vegas, the …
