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“Countless Ways to Manipulate, Exploit, and Do Harm” – SI Takes on AI, Help Wanted in Louisiana, and Evolution at Work
April 26, 2024Ahoy-hoy! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. I’m not sure what your plans were for the weekend, but you should probably go ahead and cancel them because the May/June 2024 issue of Skeptical Inquirer is now available to read online. The cover story, Guy P. …
‘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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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 …
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 …
