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OPEN DISCUSSION OCTOBER 2023

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The WHO Runs Amok. Plus, an Award to Bill Nye

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! Public confidence is difficult to earn and easy to forfeit. Which makes you wonder what the WHO (that’s the World Health Organization) was thinking in using its social media platform to promote “natural medicine” (and homeopathy in particular). CFI’s Nick Little explains why the WHO’s embrace of …

OPEN DISCUSSION SEPTEMBER 2023

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The Conflict between Fact and Feeling

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! Bertha Vazquez, CFI’s director of education, is a tireless advocate for science education (and science educators). Her love for science and sense of wonder are contagious. In a recent interview discussing the launch of CFI’s new Generation Skeptics education program, she said, “science doesn’t try to prove …

OPEN DISCUSSION AUGUST 2023

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OPEN DISCUSSION JULY 2023

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Science Cannot Protect Itself. It Needs Our Help.

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! It can be easy to take science for granted, to mistakenly believe there is a universal understanding of its importance and agreement about its value and function. Of course, we know that isn’t true. In the new issue of Skeptical Inquirer, Jerry Coyne and Luana Maroja deliver …

OPEN DISCUSSION JUNE 2023

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OPEN DISCUSSION MAY 2023

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Agree to Disagree

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! As Steven Pinker wrote recently in the Boston Globe, “The very concept of freedom of expression is anything but intuitively obvious.” He’s right, of course. When we are confronted with ideas we find disagreeable, dangerous, or downright abhorrent, our first instinct is likely to want to silence …