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OPEN DISCUSSION NOVEMBER 2023
Nov 1, 2023 · 89This thread has been created for thoughtful, rational discussion on subjects for which there are not currently any dedicated threads. Please note that our Comment Policy applies as usual. There is a link to this at the foot of the page. If you would like to refer back to previous open discussion threads, the most …
BOOK CLUB 2023
Jan 1, 2023 · 110This is the 2023 follow-on from the 2022 BOOK CLUB thread, which is now closed, though you can easily refer back to earlier discussions by clicking on the link. BOOK CLUB 2023 has been created to provide a dedicated space for the discussion of books. Pretty much any kind of book – it doesn’t have …
THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Oct 29, 2021 · 474This thread has been created as a central point for discussion about anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change so that as much information as possible can be held in one, easily accessible place. There will of course sometimes also be other climate change threads on specific new developments, and we’d encourage you to post on those too. …
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Remembering Our First Principles
Nov 15, 2023From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! It has been a very busy past few weeks, beginning with CSICon 2023 in Las Vegas and followed by a series of engagements with Richard Dawkins throughout the West Coast. I had the honor of introducing Richard for his keynote presentation at CSICon; I shared some of …
The WHO Runs Amok. Plus, an Award to Bill Nye
Sep 7, 2023 · 2From 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 medicineâ€? (and homeopathy in particular). CFI’s Nick Little explains why the WHO’s embrace of …
The Conflict between Fact and Feeling
Aug 9, 2023 · 1From 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 …
Science Cannot Protect Itself. It Needs Our Help.
Jun 27, 2023 · 9From 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 …
Agree to Disagree
Apr 20, 2023From 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.â€? 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 …
Science Cannot Be Tongue-Tied
Mar 8, 2023 · 5From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! It might be funny, if it weren’t so worrisome. Recent weeks have seen some absurd new instances of science beset by would-be censors operating under the banner of “inclusion.â€? Examples are many, and they come from all over the globe. We’ll look at an ongoing controversy in …
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Remembering Our First Principles
Nov 15, 2023From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! It has been a very busy past few weeks, beginning with CSICon 2023 in Las Vegas and followed by a series of engagements with Richard Dawkins throughout the West Coast. I had the honor of introducing Richard for his keynote presentation at CSICon; I shared some of …
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