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We call on CBS and the <em>Sunday Morning</em> show to take steps to correct the record and provide a more truthful and scientifically accurate view of the topic.</p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180407201608im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/Screen Shot 2017-08-11 at 3.54.10 PM_thumb.png"/></div> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/the_politicization_of_science_skeptical_inquirer_on_a_danger_to_democracy">The Politicization of Science: Skeptical Inquirer on a Danger to Democracy</a></h4> <h4 class="date">August 11, 2017</h4> <p>In the national debates over contentious scientific issues such as climate change, vaccines, and evolution, political and cultural identification have become a determining factor as to whether one accepts the facts of science. In its latest issue, <em>Skeptical Inquirer</em> traces the roots of the politicization of scientific issues. <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180407201608im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/Screen Shot 2017-06-08 at 4.05.21 PM_thumb.png"/></div> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/fire-breathing_dinosaurs">Fire-Breathing Dinosaurs? 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In its latest issue, leading thinkers confront the storm of falsehoods and pseudoscience with practical strategies built on a foundation of facts.</p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/the_selfish_gene_at_40_richard_dawkins_reflects_on_his_landmark_work_in_ske">The Selfish Gene at 40: Richard Dawkins Reflects On His Landmark Work in Skeptical Inquirer</a></h4> <h4 class="date">February 15, 2017</h4> <p>With his 1976 book <em>The Selfish Gene</em>, Richard Dawkins revolutionized the modern understanding of evolution by natural selection and sparked a passion for science in millions of readers across generations. Forty years later, Dawkins revisits his milestone work in <em>Skeptical Inquirer</em>... </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/science_besieged">Science Besieged: Skeptical Inquirer on the Battles over Stem Cells, Climate, and the Truth Itself</a></h4> <h4 class="date">December 13, 2016</h4> <p>Science in the United States, embattled as ever, is about to enter a new, heightened era of crisis, as old battles over subjects like stem cells and climate change rage on, and political partisanship hardens false beliefs. The latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer brings us to the front lines of the struggle over the place of science and reason in policy and culture. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/center_for_inquiry_lauds_ftc_for_curbing_homeopathys_false_advertising">Center for Inquiry Lauds FTC for Curbing Homeopathy’s False Advertising</a></h4> <h4 class="date">November 16, 2016</h4> <p>The Center for Inquiry praised the Federal Trade Commission’s new enforcement policy statement on the marketing of homeopathic drugs, promising to hold the health-related claims made by the manufacturers of these pseudoscientific “alternative” remedies to the same standards as any other remedies. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <div class="thumbnail thumbleft"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20180407201608im_/https://www.csicop.org/uploads/images/Screen Shot 2016-10-18 at 3.06.49 PM_thumb.png"/></div> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/40_years_of_skeptical_inquirer_personal_odysseys_shared_in_special_annivers">40 Years of Skeptical Inquirer: Personal Odysseys Shared in Special Anniversary Issue</a></h4> <h4 class="date">October 18, 2016</h4> <p>Skeptical Inquirer celebrates its fortieth anniversary with a special issue highlighting the personal journeys of some of today’s leading skeptics. An esteemed group of academics, investigators, and activists share stories and reflections of the movement that grew in large part out of this groundbreaking magazine’s pages. </p> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="article-single bigger"> <h4><a href="/web/20180407201608/https://www.csicop.org/news/press_releases/show/belluz_balles_prize">Skeptics to Honor Vox’s Julia Belluz with Critical Thinking Award</a></h4> <h4 class="date">August 23, 2016</h4> <p>For deftly debunking unscientific and outrageous medical claims, and for taking on the gurus of pseudoscience and quackery, Julia Belluz of Vox.com will be awarded the Balles Prize in Critical Thinking by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a program of the Center for Inquiry. 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