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“Absolutely Shocking” – Bennett Braun, Emergency Care, and International Blasphemy
April 24, 2024Welcome to your midweek Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. In his latest column for Skeptical Inquirer, JD Sword notes that Bennett Braun died last month; Bennett was “a psychologist whom the New York Times rightly claims ‘fueled’ the Satanic Panic, who lost his medical license, not once but …
‘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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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 …
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: …