April 3, 2024

Representation Matters: City Treasurer Neil Polzin The Humanist TheHumanist.com

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This is part of The Humanist’s monthly series highlighting openly nonreligious elected officials across the nation. Because of the work of the Center for Freethought Equality, the political and advocacy arm of the American Humanist Association, there are over 120 elected officials at the local, state, and federal level who identify with the atheist and […]

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Fighting Book Bans in Pennsylvania The Humanist TheHumanist.com

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I am sixty-six years old and live in the Pine Richland School District (PRSD), an affluent suburb north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The PRSD has long been a highly rated district for both academic and athletic achievements. The idea that my district would even consider banning books was inconceivable, as I mistakenly thought this only happened

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“Big Pharma” has its flaws, but like all industries, it’s made up of people – some bad, some good Syngen Grede The Skeptic

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Negative feelings about “Big Pharma” have inundated our popular media. The pandemic and its associated medical misinformation, the controversies surrounding “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli and the Sackler Family’s Purdue Pharma bankruptcy have led people to believe that for Big Pharma to succeed, it requires people to remain sick. With these stories and many others, it’s

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