Activism

  • New Video! Homeopathy and the FDA

    Join CFI On Campus in protesting the FDA and purveyors of homeopathy, and join me in New Orleans for CSICon!

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  • Psychic Kids at DragonCon: A Report

    The following report comes from Mark Stewart, a reader who braved Chris Fleming’s Psychic Kids DragonCon panel while Amy and I were staffing the Surly and Skepchick tables: +++ In this intense journey, the experts draw on their own personal experiences, training and unique outlook on life to bring troubled kids together to show them how to harness their abilities…

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  • In Case You Missed It: October 9-October 15 on the Skepchick Network

    It’s Monday! You know what that means. Check out last week’s highlights from across the Skepchick Network! Mad Art Lab Cooking with Carl: Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Footage! Take a peek behind behind the scenes at the most amazing puppet show in skepticism! New Feature: Is This What You Were Looking For? Mad Art Labbers make art based on your search terms.…

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  • FL Governor Suggests Turning State University Students into STEM Clones

      Floridians beware! Rick Scott, Florida’s governor, wants to make STEM clones. Unfortunately, this is not an article about some awesome, novel stem cell research. Instead, Scott wants to take money away from liberal arts and put it into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. Scott specifically discussed taking money away from programs such as psychology and anthropology. His…

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  • AI: Christopher Hitchens

    This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Texas Freethought Convention, which was co-sponsored by the Atheist Alliance of America. Aside from the fact that this was a very successful atheist conference in Houston, Texas, the highlight of the gathering was the Saturday night presentation of the Richard Dawkins Freethinker of the Year Award to Christopher Hitchens by…

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  • The [Air]Borne Identity

    We’ve all seen it lurking on the shelves of our local pharmacies and grocery stores. Airborne; the “get over your cold faster by boosting your immune system with herbs,” Alka-seltzer-esque tablet. It was created in the early 1990s by a 2nd grade teacher in California. I don’t mean to offend the 2nd grade teachers of the world, but why would…

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  • Women’s Rights Activists Win Nobel Peace Prize

    On this week’s SGU (out Saturday), we talk about the scientific Nobel prizes given out this year and I may have said that I find it all to be overrated. Like the Grammys! However, this year they gave a Grammy to Arcade Fire, and I was forced to admit that it made me a little bit happy. In the same…

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  • Save Johnny Depp from Rape

    In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Johnny Depp confessed something alarming that has been happening to him when someone takes publicity photos of him: Well, you just feel like you’re being raped somehow. Raped … It feels like a kind of weird — just weird, man. [I’ll pose with fans], but whenever you have a photo shoot or something…

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