February 2023

Bad Behavioral Science Exposed: Review of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills by Jesse Singal Terence Hines Skeptic

Read More Skeptic There is probably no other scientific discipline in which fads come and go so quickly, and with so much hype, as psychology. In his Quick Fix, Jesse Singal discusses eight different psychological ideas that have been promoted as quick fixes for different social problems. He refers to these as “half-baked” ideas—ideas that […]

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Feminist atheist author, still feisty at 92, on FFRF’s Sunday TV show 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 Watch the teaser here. A feisty pioneering freethinking feminist author is the guest on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s “Freethought Matters” TV show this Sunday. Barbara G. Walker, originally known as a knitting expert, is the author of the bestselling

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The Comics Section: The Tip of the Melting Iceberg Peter Bjork TheHumanist.com

The latest from Cagle Cartoons.     Tip of the Iceberg by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com   The post The Comics Section: The Tip of the Melting Iceberg appeared first on TheHumanist.com. The latest from Cagle Cartoons.     Tip of the Iceberg by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com   The post The Comics Section: The Tip of

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Chapter Spotlight: Charleston Humanists Fight School Board Prayer Peter Bjork TheHumanist.com

The first reading of Charleston County School District’s plan to implement school board prayer will be on the agenda for Monday, February 27. It’ll require a second reading to pass into policy, but the Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry is fighting to stop that and get religion out of government meetings. “We’re facing a teacher

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Humanists Support the Study of Reparation Proposals Peter Bjork TheHumanist.com

On January 9th, 2023, Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) introduced H.R. 40 – the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act into the 118th Congress. H.R. 40 would establish the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, which would be charged with the following: 1) documenting evidence of

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FFRF stops Christian class at Ohio primary school 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 legal complaint by the Freedom From Religion Foundation has halted an unconstitutional sectarian Christian class at an elementary school in Leipsic Local School District in Leipsic, Ohio. Leipsic Elementary School had reportedly been holding a weekly sectarian Christian

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Mikey Weinstein Reflects on Handwritten Letter He Received from Jimmy Carter 16 Years Ago Expressing Support for MRFF MRFF Admin Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Read More Military Religious Freedom Foundation “It was a handwritten note in cursive from Jimmy Carter himself. The letter simply stated in elegant brevity that he had been closely watching what I’d been doing in creating MRFF and fighting for church-state separation in the military. He wanted me to know that he supported our activism

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