The Morning Heresy
The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
“They Are The Problem” – Tyler Henry, FEMA Under Fire, and Blasphemy Vigilantes
October 14, 2024Welcome to the Monday Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Susan Gerbic does not mince words in her latest Skeptical Inquirer column, excoriating the credulous media “enablers” who are helping medium Tyler Henry promote his new Netflix show. These enablers have no conscience whatsoever. They just label his …
“Ignorance is Becoming Socially Acceptable” – Meteorologists Under Siege, West Bank Settlements, and Raw Milk Ridiculousness
October 11, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Skeptical Inquirer’s Benjamin Radford shares his analysis of the Hulu documentary series Demons and Saviors, which centers on a woman who “claimed to have psychic abilities as a teen and was later convicted of murdering her three-year-old daughter.” A more …
“Urging Them to Resist” – Oklahoma Schools Heed CFI’s Advice, a Skeptic Tour of London, and Bad Social Media Influencers
October 9, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. CFI Director of Government Affairs Azhar Majeed is quoted in a new story at The Hill, detailing the growing pushback against the Oklahoma “Bibles-in-classrooms” mandate, specifically among individual districts that are opting to ignore it (as CFI urged them …
“One Fit the Parameters” – Oklahoma’s Exacting Specifications, Blasphemy Grifters, and Purity Testing Quackery
October 7, 2024Ahoy-hoy! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. In August, CFI’s Office of Public Policy testified in support of a Massachusetts bill that would combat the “unfair and deceptive” marketing practices of so-called “crisis pregnancy centers.” As Director of Government Affairs Azhar Majeed wrote: These centers …
“They Want You To” – OPP’s Letter to Texas Schools, Conspiracy Thinking and CAM, and an ‘Atheist Age’ in the UK?
October 4, 2024Happy Friday, everyone! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. CFI’s Office of Public Policy has written the fifty largest school districts across Texas, urging them to reject the state’s proposed ‘Bible-influenced’ curriculum (you can read the version of the letter sent to the Houston ISD here). …
“No Place in a Public School Day” – Conspiracy Cops, Rejecting Release Time, and Ontological Confusion
October 2, 2024Welcome to the midweek edition of the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Skeptical Inquirer columnist Autumn Sword’s latest explores “Cult Cops: What Happens When Sheriffs Believe Conspiracy Theories?” Millerville’s “Conspiracy Cop” has drawn scrutiny from the public through social media and led a minority of the City …
“A Catalyst for Progress” – International Blasphemy Rights Day, Expensive Bible Lessons, and UFO Mythology
September 30, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Today is International Blasphemy Rights Day and, as Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay wrote last week, the necessity of its observance has not faded in the fifteen years since it debuted. When the Center for Inquiry (CFI) launched BRD in …
“Trillions of Suns” – The Blasphemy Taboo, the Science of Plant Consciousness, and Black Hole Jets
September 27, 2024Ahoy-hoy! Welcome to your Friday Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Free Inquiry editor Ronald Lindsay reminds us that this Monday (September 30) is International Blasphemy Rights Day, and laments that, even in Western nations, it’s still dangerous in many ways to question or criticize religion. Sure, in most …
“An Existential Threat” – Stopping Project 2025, Concussion Science, and Religious Fundamentalism
September 25, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Yesterday afternoon, House Representatives from the Stop Project 2025 Task Force hosted a hearing on Capitol Hill where ordinary citizens described how Project 2025’s proposed policies have—or would—directly impact them. CFI is one of the organizations supporting the Stop …
“Religion Makes No Sense” – Free Inquiry’s New Issue, a UFO Hunter’s Take on Science Literacy, and More
September 23, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. The October/November issue of Free Inquiry features a cover story by Enrico Gnaulati on the secular ethics of love and why they’re essential to lasting, healthy marriages and relationships. Other free-to-read highlights include Robert Allen’s “My Children, the Atheists,” …