June 1, 2022

FFRF cautiously commends S.C. birth control bill lauryn@ffrf.org (Lauryn Seering) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation cautiously commends the passage of a South Carolina bill that allows women to purchase birth control pills at a pharmacy without a doctor’s prescription. South Carolina joins 15 other states and the District of Columbia […]

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Arizona district reins in proselytizing teacher per FFRF advice czimmerman@ffrf.org (Casandra Zimmerman) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Scottsdale Unified School District has remedied a serious state/church violation following the advice of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. A concerned district student recently informed the state/church watchdog that a Chaparral High School teacher had been abusing his position

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Meet Boston Farms: Our Next Compassionate Impact Grant Awardee! GO Humanity GO Humanity

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Read More GO Humanity After months of evaluating innovative organizations with measurable impacts on hunger, water access, and disparity, we are finally announcing the second recipient of our super-sized Compassionate Impact Grant (CIG): Boston Farms Community Land Trust. Land security is food security. Boston Farms Community Land Trust (Boston Farms) acquires vacant urban land; improves

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Wild Psychotherapy: Untested and Questionable Methods of Psychological Advice and Treatment Timothy C. Thomason Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic Scientifically trained psychologists and social scientists have long been skeptical of clinical psychotherapy techniques because they are so dependent on anecdotes instead of data. In response, clinicians with scientific training have developed data-based techniques, like Cognitive Behavior Therapy. But these new techniques have not trickled down to pop psychologists like Laura Schlessinger

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Repatriation and the First Amendment,Nicole Scott,Free Inquiry

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Native American repatriations—the removal of human remains and artifacts from museums and universities and their subsequent reburial—may proceed faster in 2022 than in any preceding year. Yet repatriation hinders science because human remains and artifacts are used to reconstruct the past, which in turn helps us understand our common human experience. Factors that impact repatriation

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Excerpt from Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, by John McWhorter,Nicole Scott,Free Inquiry

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In this book, John McWhorter argues that woke ideology has become a “religion” whose followers, the “Elect,” are failing in their efforts to reduce racism and are actually harming Black Americans. In the excerpt that follows, he offers an alternative approach.—The Editors Chapter 5: BEYOND “DISMANTLING STRUCTURES”: SAVING BLACK AMERICA FOR REAL IF YOU HAVE

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Waking from Wokism: Inoculating Ourselves against a Mind Virus,Nicole Scott,Free Inquiry

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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most

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Humanism and Wokism: Introduction,Nicole Scott,Free Inquiry

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What comes to mind when you hear the term wokism? Activism countering injustices against minorities and the marginalized? Confrontation and cancellation, both public and private, of figures of the past and the present? A step forward for integration, inclusion, and acceptance? A step backward for academic and scientific research and discussion? How did a word

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