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“Bigfoot on the Big Screen” – Dr. Joe Schwarcz on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Athlete Influencers, and Dinesh Disavowed
June 3, 2024Ahoy-hoy! Welcome to the Morning Heresy, CFI’s thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines for the reality-based community. On June 13, Dr. Joe Schwarcz returns to Skeptical Inquirer Presents to discuss his latest book, Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life. Schwarcz has spent his career separating sense from nonsense and his new …
Sasquatch Sunset on the Silver Screen
May 31, 2024The new, slightly notorious, Bigfoot film Sasquatch Sunset is divided into four parts, each reflecting a season in a year in the life of a pack of Bigfoot: an older male and female (Nathan Zellner and Riley Keough) and a younger pair (Jesse Eisenberg and Christophe Zajac-Denek). Writer/director brothers David and Nathan Zellner, have—like many …
Misleading Meme Monday: Citizenship Tests
May 13, 2024Welcome to Misleading Meme Monday, an occasional series of short columns each focusing on a single, specific popular-yet-misleading meme. Memes can be wrong for any number of reasons including containing errors of fact or interpretation. By far the most common errors I find are failing to consider alternative explanations and failing to question assumptions. This …
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Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex | Dr. Joe Schwarcz on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, June 13
June 3, 2024Is superfood a scientific term … or a marketing one? Do supplements that claim to reduce inflammation actually reduce anything (other than your bank account)? What’s the deal with “red light therapy”? Everyday life is full of interesting science—and pseudoscience—from maraschino cherries and frizzy hair to duct tape, pickle juice, and dental implants. On the …
TAKE ACTION: New Hampshire: Urge Your Governor to Sign Child Marriage Ban
May 29, 2024The Center for Inquiry (CFI) calls on its supporters in New Hampshire to help pass legislation to ban child marriage in the Granite State. The General Court of New Hampshire (the state’s legislature) recently passed SB 359, which would raise the minimum age of marriage to eighteen years with no exceptions. It is now up …
Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will | Robert M. Sapolsky on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Thursday, May 30
May 20, 2024In his best-selling book Behave, Dr. Robert Sapolsky argued that while we may not grasp the precise marriage of nature and nurture that creates the physics and chemistry at the base of human behavior, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Out of this comes a perspective that as biological organisms, we have far less free …
