Can America Survive as a Secular Democracy?
December 2, 2024

Thomas Ricento From: Volume 45, No. 1, Free Inquiry, December 2024/January 2025 Free Inquiry AUDIO EDITION: https://play.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/34155470/height/128/theme/modern/size/standard/thumbnail/yes/custom-color/26a4de/time-start/00:00:00/hide-playlist/yes/font-color/ffffff Historians of the American experience have spilled oceans of ink attempting to explain the heart …

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September 10, 2024

How and Why I Got Involved in Scientific Research and Skepticism “Like during the witch trials, those who abandon rationality for superstitious thinking are a danger to us all. When …

John Cleese on How “Stupid People Have No Idea How Stupid They Are” (a.k.a. the Dunning-Kruger Effect)
February 24, 2024

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/wvVPdyYeaQU I often say that, if you want to vastly overestimate your own capabilities, you need only do one of two things: (a) get coked out of …

The Needs of the Nones
February 24, 2024

By Paul Fidalgo January 24, 2024 On the most recent episode of the Center for Inquiry’s podcast Point of Inquiry, I talked to Free Inquiry contributor Sarah An Myers about millennial attitudes toward religion and atheism. It is …

Videogame Science and UFOs | Mick West
December 23, 2023

Featuring: Mick West · From: Skeptical Inquirer Presents What’s a videogame programmer doing analyzing UFO videos? And why should people trust what a programmer has to say when people with PhDs in physics disagree …

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December 14, 2023

Our mission is to generate an appreciation for science and its role in our lives. ScienceSaves is a nonpartisan effort to promote science appreciation by highlighting the many ways science …

Conspiracies, Revenge Fuel Vegas Violence
December 14, 2023

Benjamin Radford, A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper Earlier this week a career college professor, Anthony Polito, killed three people and injured a fourth on a shooting spree at University of …

The Boundaries of Secularism: Who’s in? Who’s Out?
October 8, 2023

Juhem Navarro-Rivera From: Volume 43, No. 6, Free Inquiry magazine, October/November 2023 In the early 2010s, when I was working at the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture …

September 28, 2023

CFI’s Free Thinking Blogs Consistent with CFI’s mission, Free Thinking offers uninhibited, unsparing, and provocative observations and insights on a variety of topics of interest to CFI and its supporters. …

If I’m Being Criticized I Must Be Right…Right?
September 28, 2023

Benjamin Radford, A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper, September 27, 2023 You’ve probably heard this common comment, and you may have used it yourself. And it’s virtually certain that you have …