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Now is the time for skeptics to shine! This is the Infodemic, an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and pseudoscience; when people believe that magic potions cure diseases, aliens are among us, and the earth is flat.  It’s time to bring the brightest minds in science and reason together to fight back against this outbreak …

We live in a hyper-quantified world, awash in numbers, statistics, figures, algorithms, and data graphics. Quantitative data can be incredibly powerful, conveying objectivity and strengthening arguments. At the same time, it can be easily misused to overwhelm and persuade us of things that just aren’t true. How can we mere mortals possibly tell the difference? …

The latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer magazine honors the life and legacy of pioneering evolutionary biologist and Pulitzer Prize–winning author E. O. Wilson, who died at the age of 92 in December 2021. Wilson was a titan of science and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, whose “overarching vision of the biosphere and its ecosystems …

The Center for Inquiry is at the forefront of many legislative battles currently taking place in our country. Our Office of Public Policy (OPP) has been hard at work this spring taking on a host of issues related to science, reason, and secularism. Our Fight Against Pro-Naturopathy Legislation. It has become unfortunately common to see …

In almost all situations, we want to be making decisions based on reason and rationality—and these days it feels like they’re in short supply. Does that mean there’s no room for being illogical? On Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m. on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, behavioral scientist Stuart Vyse returns to …

In a world full of misinformation, being able to critically evaluate claims is empowering. Good thinking is the best way to protect ourselves from being fooled (or even harmed) by falsehoods and deceptions. But where do we start?  Thursday, April 28 at 7pm ET on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, Melanie Trecek-King will …

In the latest issue of Free Inquiry magazine, the journal of secular humanist thought, Christina Anne Knight provides a systematic, good-faith reckoning with the idea of life after death, asking fundamental questions about the meaning of having conscious experiences after the body has expired and examining the interplay of systems that would be required for such a thing to …

Science denial has become deadly. From climate change to the pandemic and vaccines, it’s critically important to understand what causes someone to reject reality. On Thursday, April 14, at 7:00 p.m. ET, on the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event, psychologists Barbara Hofer and Gale Sinatra will discuss the ideas behind their new book, …

Charles, Prince of Wales, has been having a long-standing love affair… with alternative medicine. For more than forty years, Charles has used his power and influence to promote unproven, disproven, and occasionally harmful alternative therapies, including the worst of all the snake oils, homeopathy. Why is England’s future monarch so enamored of quackery? On Thursday, …

For the past several years, merchants of misinformation have been “flooding the zone” with pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, religious zealotry, medical quackery, and plain old lies. Then came the coronavirus and its accompanying “infodemic,” threatening a new age of darkness.   Yet even in the midst of all the confusion, there were those who stood firmly for …