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The hidden benefit of Covid is science that could change our world

By: Richard Dawkins The true men of action of our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists . . . When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a  shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.                           …

OPEN DISCUSSION MARCH 2021

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My most proud achievement has been escaping religion

My most proud achievement so far in my short 34-year life span has been escaping religion. Though there are many different influential characters on YouTube that helped me do this, Richard Dawkins has been the most influential. Growing up in a heavily religious family the way I did, never left any room for me to …

Reading the Quran was a shocking moment for me

For those who don’t know, Islam is very different. There is no way to exit; if somebody leaves the religion, the penalty is death. It’s even worse in my case because I actively criticize the faith and the political system (which is the political aspect of Islam). The moment of converting for me was from …

VIDEO: What QAnon Believes

The most recent Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online event was the series’ best-attended so far, perhaps because it directly addressed a question that is probably on a lot of people’s minds: What the heck is going on with this QAnon thing? The conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon has quickly gone from inhabiting the darkest …

Mars or Bust

For a planet without any known lifeforms, there sure is a lot of activity on Mars these days. Tomorrow (Thursday), just days after China and the United Arab Emirates have put their own spacecraft into Martian orbit, the United States will add its own rover, Perseverance, to the party, trying to land an object hurtling …

SCOTUS v. Science

It is no surprise that a Supreme Court dominated by religious conservatives has produced yet another ruling that privileges religion over all else, as is the case with their recent decision striking down California’s pandemic restrictions on in-person worship services. But as CFI Legal Director Nick Little points out, the privileging of religion is only …

Hitting Homeopathy Where It Lives

Homeopathic fake medicine continues to be sold and marketed by retailers despite the fact that it has no effect whatsoever on any condition or ailment, save for relieving oneself of excess cash. As the Center for Inquiry presses ahead with major lawsuits against retailers Walmart and CVS, we are also tackling the issue of the …

Avijit Roy’s Killers Sentenced

In 2015, a celebrated secularist writer and ally of CFI, Avijit Roy, was attacked at a book fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by a gang of Islamic extremists who hacked him to death with machetes and badly injured his wife, Bonya Ahmed. That horrific event began a slew of similar killings over the next few years and …

Fraught with Faith-Based Initiatives

The Biden administration has re-established the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which, on its face, is not exactly thrilling news to the nonreligious community. But at the very least, it is being headed once again by its director under President Obama, Melissa Rogers, who worked very well with secular organizations such as …