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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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
Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling constitutional misconduct on University of South Carolina basketball head coach Dawn Staley for her recent comments denigrating nonbelievers.In her conversation with ESPN reporter Holly Rowe courtside Sunday following her team’s victory over Oregon
Read More Skeptic Maggie Jackson — an award-winning author and journalist known for her pioneering writings on social trends, particularly technology’s impact on humanity — explores the importance of uncertainty and the benefits it can bring in an era of unpredictability.
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Read More Secular Coalition for America If you spend a lot of time following what passes for political discourse you hear about the Deep State, or at least you did during the Trump administration. People who used to be called government employees, civil servants, or bureaucrats were suddenly referred to as the Deep State on
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Read More News Release Archives – Freedom From Religion Foundation – Freedom From Religion Foundation Florida’s Supreme Court Justices Florida has fallen to anti-abortion crusaders. A crushing decision on Monday, April 1, by the state Supreme Court approved one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. The Freedom From Religion Foundation calls it appalling that the
Read More Atheist Republic The Savage Return of ISIS? The Deadliest Attack on Russia in Decades https://www.atheistrepublic.com/news/savage-return-isis-deadliest-attack-russia-decades Location: Russia Russia endured its deadliest terror attack since the 2004 Beslan school siege when four militants from Tajikistan, dressed in camouflage uniforms, brazenly opened fire and detonated explosives at the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow
This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 2, Issue 2, from 1988. The philosophical world was startled in 1944 by the publication from the head of the Cambridge philosophy department of an extraordinary paper: a 15-page discussion in the journal Philosophy on “The Experimental Establishment of Telepathic Precognition.” Of course this was not the
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Read More Skeptic In a special double segment that is reminiscent of The National Enquirer in its heyday, 60 Minutes has aired another dramatic story on Havana Syndrome. If it had been a sporting event, the score would have been 8-0: eight people interviewed and not a single skeptic. Billed by CBS News as a
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