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“Nowhere To Be Seen” – Skeptical Inquirer on the ‘Death’ of Bigfoot, Interstellar Cat Videos, and Leonard Leo
December 29, 2023Ahoy-hoy! Welcome to 2023’s final installment of the Morning Heresy, CFI’s roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. The January/February 2024 issue of Skeptical Inquirer is now available to read online. The cover feature, “Is Bigfoot Dead?,” sees deputy editor Benjamin Radford update readers on the decades-long search for evidence of Bigfoot. The …
Conspiracies, Revenge Fuel Vegas Violence
December 8, 2023Earlier this week a career college professor, Anthony Polito, killed three people and injured a fourth on a shooting spree at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Police said that Polito, 67, had also mailed nearly two dozen letters to university personnel across the country, at least one of which contained an unknown substance. It seems …
When Real Conspiracies Are Revealed, Conspiracists Shrug
November 10, 2023Over the past few weeks several prominent and powerful people and companies have been exposed as having been involved in coverups and conspiracies. • As The New York Times recently reported, “A federal jury ruled that the powerful National Association of Realtors and several large brokerages had conspired to artificially inflate the commissions paid to …
News & Announcements
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Elects Twelve New CSI Fellows
December 18, 2023The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), a program of the Center for Inquiry and publisher of the long-running Skeptical Inquirer magazine, is pleased to announce the election of twelve new CSI Fellows for 2023. These newly elected fellows, chosen based on their distinguished contributions to science and skepticism, will serve as consultants and ambassadors for …
TAKE ACTION: Urge Your Members of Congress to Cosponsor the ‘Health Share Transparency Act’
November 9, 2023The Center for Inquiry is pleased to see Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA) and his colleagues reintroduce the Health Share Transparency Act this week. This important federal legislation would hold accountable religiously based health care sharing ministries that fleece Americans out of millions of dollars every year through shoddy health insurance. Now, CFI needs our supporters …
TAKE ACTION: Urge Your Senator to Rescind Homeopathy-Friendly Committee Report
September 20, 2023The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is calling on our supporters to make their voices heard in the U.S. Senate. We need to set the record straight on the junk science that is homeopathy. The Senate Committee on Appropriations, led by Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-ME), recently issued a committee report …
