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“A More Benign Constituency” – Confronting Christian Nationalism, Cholesterol Denialism, and the Yahoo Boys
May 6, 2024Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. Dr. Bradley Onishi will be the featured guest for the next Skeptical Inquirer Presents event on Thursday, May 16. Onishi is the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism – And What Comes Next. …
Misleading Meme Monday: Teen Shaming
May 6, 2024Welcome to Misleading Meme Monday, an occasional series of short columns each focusing on a single, specific popular-yet-misleading meme. Memes can be wrong for any number of reasons including containing errors of fact or interpretation. By far the most common errors I find are failing to consider alternative explanations and failing to question assumptions. This …
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 …
News & Announcements
The Christian Nationalist Threat to American Democracy | Dr. Bradley Onishi on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Thursday, May 16
May 6, 2024Christian nationalism is more than faith combined with patriotism. It’s a movement designed to impose one vision of Christianity on all others—a religious mission of conquest and domination. As the 2024 elections approach, the dangers of this movement are becoming more apparent. Join us on Thursday, May 16, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a free …
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 …
