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“The More Sensational and Implausible the Better” – Arizona Action Alert, Bogus Botox, and Dawkins on Tour
April 17, 2024Welcome to your midweek Morning Heresy, CFI’s regular roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Yesterday, CFI’s Office of Public Policy (OPP) issued an Action Alert for our supporters in Arizona. The state legislature has passed a bill that would allow public schools to post the Ten Commandments, and we are asking Arizona …
‘Late Night with the Devil’: Hella Good Time
April 8, 2024The new horror film Late Night with the Devil succinctly captures a very specific era in American history, when moral panics coincided with ratings-driven sensationalism on broadcast television. In today’s clickbait-saturated internet world where Likes and Shares are the virtual currency of the realm it can be easy to forget that it wasn’t always this …
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Spawns Conspiracies
March 28, 2024The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, collapsed after being hit by a freighter about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Traffic across the bridge had been halted just moments before due to a distress call, though there was a construction crew working on it at the time. At least eight workers fell …
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TAKE ACTION: Arizona: Tell Governor Katie Hobbs to Veto Ten Commandments Legislation
April 16, 2024The Center for Inquiry is sounding the alarm in Arizona: We need CFI supporters to contact their governor’s office and urge Governor Katie Hobbs to veto legislation that would instill the Ten Commandments in Arizona’s public schools. SB 1151 recently passed in both chambers of the Arizona State Legislature and was transmitted to the governor’s …
Is the Planet Full? What We Need to Know about Overpopulation | Peter Uetz on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Thursday, April 18
April 8, 2024The human population reached eight billion people in 2022 and may reach ten billion later this century. A relatively small (and rich) fraction of those billions are able to cause climate change at a global scale. However, with so much focus on the challenges of climate change, another catastrophe is unfolding without most people noticing: …
Does Coffee Cause Cancer? Myths about the Food We Eat | Dr. Christopher Labos on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Thursday, April 4
March 20, 2024Does vitamin C really prevent the common cold? Was red meat really declared a carcinogen by the World Health Organization? Is red wine really good for your heart? Are eggs good for you or bad for you? There’s a lot of “conventional wisdom” about food and nutrition out there … and it’s hard to keep …
