Jeff Dellinger
January 10, 2025 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. As a series of devastating wildfires continue to roar through the Los Angeles area, CFI West has teamed with Sunday Assembly LA and Atheists United to aid those impacted by the fires. If you have been displaced by the fires, …
January 8, 2025 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Richard Dawkins wrote an essay for The Spectator, which has since been republished at Free Inquiry, taking on “The Myth of the God-Shaped Hole.” How patronising, how insulting to imply that, if deprived of a religion, humanity must ignominiously …
January 6, 2025 by Jeff DellingerHappy new year! Welcome back to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Let’s kick off our first column of 2025 with big congratulations to 2023 Richard Dawkins Award winner, CSI Fellow, and new Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Bill Nye. He was one of nineteen luminaries presented …
December 20, 2024 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. This will be our last column in 2024, so let me wish all of you a safe and happy new year! Skeptical Inquirer columnist Nick Tiller unveils his picks for “The Mount Rushmore of Wellness Bullsh*t.” Who are the …
December 18, 2024 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Benjamin Radford took to the CFI blog on Monday for a look at the “Return of the ‘Mysterious’ Drones and the Twilight of Ambiguity,” reminding readers that the current breathless hype cycle is very much like ones we’ve seen …
December 16, 2024 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. A reminder for Michigan residents, CFI’s Office of Public Policy (OPP) is urging you to contact your state representatives and tell them to support SB 1044, a Secular Celebrants bill currently pending before the House. SB 1044 passed in …
December 13, 2024 by Jeff DellingerAhoy-hoy! Welcome to your Friday Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. CFI’s Office of Public Policy (OPP) is calling on Michigan residents to take action and urge their state representatives to support a Secular Celebrants bill currently pending before the state House. The Michigan bill, SB 1044, would amend …
December 11, 2024 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the midweek edition of the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. With Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. set to visit Washington next week in an effort to shore up support for his (objectively terrible) nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, it seems like a …
December 9, 2024 by Jeff DellingerWelcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. The New York Times reported over the weekend: “Trump Suggests Kennedy Will Examine Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism.” This, of course, despite the fact (like it says right there in the headline), the question has been thoroughly and …
December 6, 2024 by Jeff DellingerAhoy-hoy! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Following a recent vote in the UK House of Commons, Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay’s new column looks at “Legal Assisted Dying: Valid and Invalid Concerns.” The British bill would create a procedure similar to the system in …