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“A Discredited Practice” – Missouri Naturopaths, Misleading Memes, and Gobbling Supplements
May 1, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. CFI’s Office of Public Policy, joined by a group of sixteen scientists and medical professionals, wrote Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher to oppose HB 2446, a pro-naturopathy bill making its way through the Missouri House of Representatives. HB 2446 …
Misleading Meme Monday
April 29, 2024Welcome to Misleading Meme Monday, an occasional series of short columns each focusing on a single, specific popular-yet-misleading meme. Of course many, if not most, memes are wrong in some way, if for no other reason than that they are incomplete. Like bumper stickers and t-shirt slogans, it’s impossible to succinctly capture nuances of complex …
‘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 …
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TAKE ACTION: Louisiana: Tell Your Legislators to Reject ‘School Chaplains’ and ‘Ten Commandments’ Bills
April 26, 2024The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is concerned about two dangerous and theocratic bills in Louisiana, and we need our supporters in the Bayou State to help defeat them. The first, HB 334 / SB 123, would allow public school districts to hire, or accept as volunteers, religious chaplains for student service roles. These roles include …
The Science of Weird Shit | Chris French on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Thursday, May 2
April 23, 2024If the wider scientific community is right to be skeptical about paranormal claims, why do so many people believe in the paranormal—including a sizable number who claim to have had direct personal experience of paranormal phenomena? Join us on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a free Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Chris …
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 …
