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“May Not Always Be Error-Free” – Stories Written in Stone, Texas Bible Lessons, and a Fountain of Fake News
June 7, 2024Happy Friday, everyone! Welcome back to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. ScienceSaves has released a great new animated video titled “Science Saves Lives: It’s Written in Stone.” It showcases how scientific advancements over the last 150+ years have dramatically reduced childhood mortality, boosted children’s life expectancy, and …
Bertha Vazquez on ‘Science Saves Lives: It’s Written in Stone’
June 7, 2024ScienceSaves, a pro-science advocacy program of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), today released a new animated video titled “Science Saves Lives: It’s Written in Stone.” The video, written by CFI award-winning Director of Education Bertha Vazquez and brought to life by animator Patricia Bartkowiak, illustrates how scientific advancements over the past 150 years have dramatically …
Sasquatch Sunset on the Silver Screen
May 31, 2024The new, slightly notorious, Bigfoot film Sasquatch Sunset is divided into four parts, each reflecting a season in a year in the life of a pack of Bigfoot: an older male and female (Nathan Zellner and Riley Keough) and a younger pair (Jesse Eisenberg and Christophe Zajac-Denek). Writer/director brothers David and Nathan Zellner, have—like many …
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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex | Dr. Joe Schwarcz on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, June 13
June 3, 2024Is superfood a scientific term … or a marketing one? Do supplements that claim to reduce inflammation actually reduce anything (other than your bank account)? What’s the deal with “red light therapy”? Everyday life is full of interesting science—and pseudoscience—from maraschino cherries and frizzy hair to duct tape, pickle juice, and dental implants. On the …
TAKE ACTION: New Hampshire: Urge Your Governor to Sign Child Marriage Ban
May 29, 2024The Center for Inquiry (CFI) calls on its supporters in New Hampshire to help pass legislation to ban child marriage in the Granite State. The General Court of New Hampshire (the state’s legislature) recently passed SB 359, which would raise the minimum age of marriage to eighteen years with no exceptions. It is now up …
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will | Robert M. Sapolsky on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Thursday, May 30
May 20, 2024In his best-selling book Behave, Dr. Robert Sapolsky argued that while we may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Out of this comes a perspective that as biological organisms, we have far less free …