November 22, 2022 – Free Thought News

FFRF asks Wisconsin county to reject partnership with crisis pregnancy center gfletcher@ffrf.org (Gregory Fletcher) News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation

Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation A proposal being considered by the Marathon County Board (Wis.) to replace secular public health care with a religiously oriented crisis pregnancy center must be rejected, urges the Freedom From Religion Foundation.In a recent action, the Marathon County Board voted to …

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Join Us in Seeding Local Power GO Humanity GO Humanity

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Read More GO Humanity As the year draws to a close, GO Humanity—formerly Foundation Beyond Belief—is asking you to join us in Seeding Local Power. This isn’t about charity from the top down. It’s about growing power for marginalized people from the ground up. We’ve spent the year sprouting a people-powered resiliency network—one that catches …

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Mass Shooting on LGBQT Community in Colorado Springs Robin Harris GO Humanity

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Read More GO Humanity It happened again. This time in Colorado. The LGBQT community in Colorado Springs at Club Q experienced massive and fatal violence. Anderson Lee Aldrich is facing five counts of first degree murder. Witnesses say Aldrich entered the club with tons of weapons and started his violent rampage. It appears as though …

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Week of 11/21/22 Jake Ritter American Ethical Union

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Read More American Ethical Union A Fond Farewell Last October I announced plans to retire from my role as executive director for the American Ethical Union effective the end of July 2022. And, though my timeline did not quite hold up, the retirement plan itself is in effect. My final day as executive director will …

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Free Will? The role of remorse and rehabilitation within the justice system Michael Heap The Skeptic

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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 22, Issue 1, from 2011. At the time of writing this piece there is a discussion about ‘free will’ taking place on ASKE’s email forum. This has been stimulated by an article Sue Blackmore wrote for the Guardian (March 2rd, 2009) headed, “Let’s drop the charade: It’s …

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Nicholas Dirks on Science Denial, Distrust, and Skepticism Skeptic Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic Shermer and Dirks discuss: vaccine hesitancy • why antibiotics do not generate the same distrust • vaccines and autism • COVID-19 and its differential effects on people • the lab-leak hypothesis vs. the zoonomic hypothesis for the origin of SARS CoV-2 • Anthony Fauci and the CDC • climate denial • how …

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Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: On Race and Jane Elliott’s Famous Experiment on Prejudice Stephen G. Bloom Skeptic

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Read More Skeptic One of the most famous experiments in education — Jane Elliott’s “blue eyes, brown eyes” separation of her third grade students to teach them about prejudice — was very different from what the public was told, as revealed in this excerpt from the in-depth story about what really happened in that classroom.

The New Creationism? Kristine Harley Atheists for Liberty

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Read More Atheists for Liberty Many of us fought against Intelligent Design in the early 2000s, and for evolution to be taught in our nation’s science classes without mystical inclusions, fake “controversies” or impeaching strawmen. That battle was won, and in the wake of our triumph I speculated on how the next specter of creationism …

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