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misinformation, misconceptions, false beliefs, or erroneous claims. Myths can be found in virtually every field. Sometimes myths can be relatively harmless, while other times they lead to bad decisions and negative consequences. Myths contribute to epistemic irrationality: holding beliefs that are not supported by evidence &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/we-do-some-nudity-we-do-some-blasphemy/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AdobeStock_329919498-1024x410.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/we-do-some-nudity-we-do-some-blasphemy/"><h5>We Do Some Nudity, We Do Some Blasphemy</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 25, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/" rel="tag">The Morning Heresy</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/fidalgo-paul/" rel="tag">Paul Fidalgo</a> </p> <p>Our crack web team already has last night&#8217;s Skeptical Inquirer Presents posted online! So if you missed the live event with Nathan Lents, as he disemboweled the claims of Intelligent Design, no worries. You may now enjoy it at your convenience. Behold, as the anti-vaxxer machinations of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children&#8217;s Health Defense &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/covert-anti-vaccination-in-childrens-health-defense/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Childrens-Health-Defense-Misinformation-1024x352.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/covert-anti-vaccination-in-childrens-health-defense/"><h5>Covert Anti-Vaccination in ‘Children’s Health Defense’</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 24, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/a-skeptic-reads-the-newspaper/" rel="tag">A Skeptic Reads the Newspaper</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/radford-benjamin/" rel="tag">Benjamin Radford</a> </p> <p>This is the ninth in a series of original articles on the COVID-19 pandemic by the Center for Inquiry as part of its Coronavirus Resource Center, created to help the public address the crisis with evidence-based information. Please check back periodically for updates and new information.  News and social media are awash with information about &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/all-the-properties-of-a-parasitic-virus/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AdobeStock_171110499-1024x410.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/all-the-properties-of-a-parasitic-virus/"><h5>All the Properties of a Parasitic Virus</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 24, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/" rel="tag">The Morning Heresy</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/fidalgo-paul/" rel="tag">Paul Fidalgo</a> </p> <p>TONIGHT we got Nathan Lents, he of Human Errors fame, on the latest Skeptical Inquirer Presents! Register free right here. And look! The latest Point of Inquiry podcast has Rev. Barry Lynn, former head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State! That&#8217;s what you call a good get. Yesterday, CFI&#8217;s Nick Little was &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/virtual-nobodies/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AdobeStock_370471937-1024x410.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/virtual-nobodies/"><h5>Virtual Nobodies</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 23, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/" rel="tag">The Morning Heresy</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/fidalgo-paul/" rel="tag">Paul Fidalgo</a> </p> <p>Hey, what are you up to Tuesday night? Yeah, I know, the first presidential debate. Whatever. Before you put yourself through that trauma, though, howsabout you tune in for something hopeful and enlightening? September 29 at 7pm ET, the next CFI Insider live online event brings us the great Bertha Vazquez, director of our TIES &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/religious-liberty-rock-opera/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AdobeStock_184845432-1024x410.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/religious-liberty-rock-opera/"><h5>Religious Liberty Rock Opera</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 22, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/" rel="tag">The Morning Heresy</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/fidalgo-paul/" rel="tag">Paul Fidalgo</a> </p> <p>CFI&#8217;s legal director Nick Little expressed better than any of us could just what Justice Ginsburg meant to our secular-skeptic-reality-based movement. &#8220;When the majority of the Supreme Court lurched to the right, permitting religious exemptions that would harm innocent parties, the Notorious RBG held firm in her belief that justice demands that a person’s faith &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-think-about-the-apocalypse-now/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ATA-Banner-1024x791.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/how-to-think-about-the-apocalypse-now/"><h5>How To Think About The Apocalypse, Now</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 21, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/ask-the-atheist/" rel="tag">Ask the Atheist</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/underdown-jim/" rel="tag">Jim Underdown</a> </p> <p>Classically, the word Apocalypse refers to the end times described in the book of Revelation in the bible. We can safely ignore this because Revelation is batshit crazy – even by biblical standards. The insanity that goes down in Revelation makes Noah’s Flood seem like a county fair. Even most Christians have to read Revelation and say, “God wouldn’t do that.” (Wouldn’t he?)</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/may-her-memory-be-a-blessing-on-the-loss-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg_hearing.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/may-her-memory-be-a-blessing-on-the-loss-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg/"><h5>May Her Memory Be a Blessing: On the Loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 21, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/guest-contributors/" rel="tag">Guest Contributors</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/little-nicholas/" rel="tag">Nicholas Little</a> </p> <p>We lost a friend Friday night. And, as a movement, we in the secular, pro-science, reality-based community don’t have a lot of friends in positions of power. Certainly not friends like Justice Ginsburg. For issues at the core of our mission here at the Center for Inquiry, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was more than a &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/trouble-trebled/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Associate_Justice_Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg’s_chair_and_the_bench_in_front_of_her_seat_at_the_Supreme_Court_draped_in_black-1024x410.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/trouble-trebled/"><h5>Trouble, Trebled</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 21, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/" rel="tag">The Morning Heresy</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/fidalgo-paul/" rel="tag">Paul Fidalgo</a> </p> <p>You already know. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday night. We&#8217;ll have more to say later today, but it&#8217;s a punch to the gut. No, it&#8217;s a battering ram to the gut. Let&#8217;s meet the person who seems to be at the top of the list to replace Ginsburg, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. RNS says &hellip;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb-3 blog-latest"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xl-4 col-md-12 col-sm-4 mb-4"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/human-rights-subscription-bundle/"><div class="article-thumbs img-fit" style="background-image:url(https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610im_/https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AdobeStock_293822873-1024x410.jpg)"></div></a> </div> <div class="col-xl-8 col-md-12 col-sm-8"> <span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/human-rights-subscription-bundle/"><h5>Human Rights Subscription Bundle</h5></a></span> <span style="color: #666 !important;">September 18, 2020 </span> </span> <p class="blog-meta"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/" rel="tag">The Morning Heresy</a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200926050610/https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/authors/fidalgo-paul/" rel="tag">Paul Fidalgo</a> </p> <p>At Skeptical Inquirer: Susan Gerbic—the woman who did such a great job exposing fake-psychic Thomas John that the New York Times covered it—reviews John&#8217;s new show. 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