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Laugh or Cry? I Can’t Decide	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Women in Secularism 2 kicks off today! To judge by the tweets of attendees, there is an enthusiasm for this conference that I’ve not seen for an event at least since the Reason…	Paul Fidalgo	05/17/13	0
SETI: Astronomy as a Contact Sport - A conversation with Jill Tarter		Paul Fidalgo	05/17/13	0
Standing Up To Sexism Works		Paul Fidalgo	05/16/13	0
Lawrence Krauss, CFI Urge Lamar Smith to Scrap Onerous Science Funding Criteria	Science advocate Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University and the Center for Inquiry (CFI) on Thursday submitted a letter to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), calling his draft legislative proposal altering the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) peer review system “both unnecessary and potentially harmful to science research supported by the United…	Paul Fidalgo	05/16/13	0
$100 Trillion Per Light-Second	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Must-read: Ken Chitwood at the Houston Chronicle reports on the state of women’s equality in the skepto-atheosphere, providing background for the Women in Secularism conference (starting tomorrow!), and talking to CFI’s Melody Hensley.  (Speaking of…	Paul Fidalgo	05/16/13	1	05/16/13
Female atheists fight for equality in freethought movement		Paul Fidalgo	05/15/13	0
Paul Fidalgo is Endorsed by Optimus Prime	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Persecuted Bangladeshi atheist bloggers Subrata Adhikari Shuvo and Russel Parvez are released on bail. From our Office of Public Policy, we’re on board with 70 other groups pushing to keep abortion restrictions out of the…	Paul Fidalgo	05/15/13	6	05/16/13
10 Faked Historical Miracles		Paul Fidalgo	05/14/13	0
Comprehensive Broomstick Reform	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Minnesota will soon be the 12th state to allow gay marriage.  CSICOP.org starts a new column by Kyle Hill on what the real-world implications would be if some paranormal claims were true. To kick…	Paul Fidalgo	05/14/13	0
Too Many Popes!	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Apparently, some plants are communicating with each other. Call Peter Singer! (Or, as Ron Lindsay said in response on Twitter, “Clearly the only morally acceptable stance is to limit oneself to drinking Ensure.”) Too…	Paul Fidalgo	05/13/13	0
Sylvia Browne’s Failed Amanda Berry Prediction Returns To Haunt Her		Paul Fidalgo	05/10/13	0
Disavow the Holy Spirit, Get 10% Off	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   There’s lots more reaction coming in regarding fake-psychic Sylvia Browne and her super-wrongness about Amanda Berry being, you know, not dead. Joe Nickell, outraged over Browne’s fake predictions, notes that it’s not the…	Paul Fidalgo	05/10/13	2	05/10/13
AAI, CFI and IHEU criticize “World Statesmen Award” for Indonesian President	Atheist Alliance International (AAI), the Center for Inquiry (CFI), and the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) are dismayed that the Appeal of Conscience Foundation has decided to award Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the World Statesmen Award at its 2013 Special Awards Dinner.  Indonesia’s record on human rights…	Paul Fidalgo	05/10/13	0
The Tidy-Up God	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Well here’s a thing. Jessica Ahlquist just won herself a First Amendment Award. Oh, let me clarify: She’s won the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award. You can’t make this stuff up: Three…	Paul Fidalgo	05/09/13	0
The Most Dangerous of All Possible Delusions	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Stop whatever you’re doing. Like, don’t even read the Heresy right now. Because Point of Inquiry has a special video edition this week with both hosts (swoon!) and! And! Guest Jared Diamond (double-swoon!), author…	Paul Fidalgo	05/08/13	2	05/12/13
Mostly False	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Whoa! Eugenie Scott is stepping down as head of NCSE! Oh no!  Here’s an interview I did with Scott before last year’s CSICon. She was awfully nice. PZ Myers declares his disaffiliation from the skeptic movement (so he…	Paul Fidalgo	05/07/13	0
Science Shines New Light on Shroud of Turin’s Age		Paul Fidalgo	05/06/13	0
Credo: Ronald Lindsay		Paul Fidalgo	05/06/13	0
I Just Squirm Untelegenically	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Washington Examiner interviews CFI chief Ron Lindsay on his beliefs regarding religious freedom: On the one hand it’s clear from our constitution the founders wanted the government to stay outside of church internal affairs.…	Paul Fidalgo	05/06/13	1	05/06/13
Blur Some of the Battle Lines	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   I was very proud to work under the skeptical-yet-welcoming glow of the Big Blue Meatball of CFI yesterday, as we and our allies held protests in cities around the world to raise awareness of,…	Paul Fidalgo	05/03/13	1	05/03/13
Perspectives in Education: Reba Boyd Wooden		Paul Fidalgo	05/02/13	0
A change toward tolerance?		Paul Fidalgo	05/02/13	0
If I Worked That Mysteriously, I’d Get Fired	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   It’s the National Day of Reason, and today, secularists and our allies around the globe will tell Bangladesh and the world that the persecution of atheists and dissenters will not be tolerated, with…	Paul Fidalgo	05/02/13	0
Bill Nye, Susan Jacoby to Headline Major Skeptic-Humanist Joint Conference	Should examination of religious beliefs remain largely off limits for skeptics? Should secular humanists be as critical of fringe science claims, including alternative medicine, as they are of religious beliefs? To what extent do skeptics and humanists have a common mission? Both skeptics and humanists support science and critical…	Paul Fidalgo	05/01/13	0
No Black Friday Sales for You!	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Tomorrow, for real this time, CFI and other allies around the world will protest for free expression in Bangladesh. Here are the details, and don’t forget when tweeting from or about protest events…	Paul Fidalgo	05/01/13	1	05/01/13
I Don’t Want it to Be a Joke	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   As we get set to join allies in worldwide protests against Bangladesh’s persecution of atheists and dissidents on May 2 (Thursday), Islamists threaten their own demonstration demanding death for blasphemy three days later.  August usually sucks…	Paul Fidalgo	04/30/13	1	04/30/13
It’s a Vexing Time	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   CFI boss Ron Lindsay was the guest on Jamila Bey’s Sex, Politics, and Religion radio show to talk about the free speech crisis in Bangladesh. Our protests on this issue are scheduled to take place…	Paul Fidalgo	04/29/13	1	04/29/13
World demands Bangladesh to stop jailing people for blasphemy		Paul Fidalgo	04/26/13	0
Find Mystery Where None Exists	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   As I talked about in the last Heresy, yesterday some groups went ahead with their protest plans, despite the national day of mourning in Bangladesh for the victims of the building collpase outside…	Paul Fidalgo	04/26/13	0
Atheists postpone protests after Bangladeshi disaster		Paul Fidalgo	04/25/13	0
Is it Ever OK to Ban Icons of Hate?		Paul Fidalgo	04/25/13	0
Atheists rally around jailed Bangladeshi bloggers		Paul Fidalgo	04/25/13	0
Keep National Trail Mix Day Holy	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Yesterday, a building collapsed outside Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, killing well over 100 people, and injuring over 1000. The government declared today, April 25, to be a national day of mourning. As…	Paul Fidalgo	04/25/13	0
Public comments indicate few like Obamacare rule on birth control		Paul Fidalgo	04/24/13	0
There’s No Need to Whisper	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Tomorrow is the day secularists and our allies gather to protest the Bangladeshi crackdown on atheism and free expression in demonstrations around the world. Tell everyone in your social networks, and take part! Columbia…	Paul Fidalgo	04/24/13	1	04/24/13
Columbia atheist groups to join international protest in support of Bangladeshi bloggers		Paul Fidalgo	04/23/13	0
Appeals Court Hears Indy Atheist Group’s Demand to Perform Marriages		Paul Fidalgo	04/23/13	0
The Only Relevant Debate	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   AP reports on the Boston bombing suspect: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s [written] answers led [investigators] to believe he and his brother were motivated by a radical brand of Islam without major terror connections…  Andrew Sullivan balks at…	Paul Fidalgo	04/23/13	1	04/23/13
Big Macs Prevent Alzheimer’s	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   The global protest against the persecution of atheists and other dissenters in Bangladesh is this Thursday. Check this page for the latest news on where protest events are being held, and if you know…	Paul Fidalgo	04/22/13	0
Shock and Grief	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   I am reading the news this morning with my jaw hanging open, as I imagine many of you are (I mean, a freaking grenade fight???). At the time of my writing, we know that…	Paul Fidalgo	04/19/13	0
Scriptural Basis for Self-Serving Gutlessness	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   This morning we announced that atheist groups around the world, led by CFI, the International Humanist and Ethical Union, American Atheists, and CFI-Canada, will take part in protests against the persecution of atheists and…	Paul Fidalgo	04/18/13	1	04/18/13
In Worldwide Protests, Atheists to Demand Response to Bangladesh’s Crackdown on Free Expression	Due to the country of Bangladesh marking a national day of mourning for the victims of today’s deadly building collapse, the Center for Inquiry’s protests for free expression will be postponed to May 2, with all times the same. Below is the original release with the new date. Other organizations…	Paul Fidalgo	04/18/13	0
US body against blogger’s arrest		Paul Fidalgo	04/17/13	0
Pagans, Bitcoins, and Microbes	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Dave Weigel lines up the reasons why Boston conspiracy theorists may have “a tough road ahead” toward credibility.  Muslim groups are scrambling to show their solidarity with victims and their revulsion at the attack.  The…	Paul Fidalgo	04/17/13	0
Find Out a Little About Everything	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Following the horror of yesterday’s explosions in Boston, of course all those affected—and all those who will be affected—are in our thoughts, and have our deepest condolences; for the loss, the pain,…	Paul Fidalgo	04/16/13	1	04/16/13
The Paratroopers of God’s Army	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Turkish pianist Fazil Say gets a suspended jail term for blasphemy, following a series of tweets last year the court considered to be “insulting religious values of a part of the population.”  Pope…	Paul Fidalgo	04/15/13	0
Payot on a Plane	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   CFI sent out an action alert yesterday on behalf of the persecuted atheists in Bangladesh. We’re formally asking the State Department to weigh in, and start to put pressure on the Bangladeshi government. You can…	Paul Fidalgo	04/12/13	2	04/15/13
Secular Group to John Kerry: Tell Bangladesh to Stop Atheist Persecution	An international organization advocating for the nonreligious urged Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday to pressure the government of Bangladesh to reverse its policy of arresting atheist bloggers for writing content critical of religion. In a letter to Secretary Kerry and Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Suzan Johnson Cook,…	Paul Fidalgo	04/11/13	0
It’s Almost an Embarrassment	The Morning Heresy is your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.   Okay, my nerd brain just exploded, reformed itself into a new nerd brain, and then exploded again: Here’s a panel discussion with Bill Nye, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Brian Greene, Ira Flatow, Neal…	Paul Fidalgo	04/11/13	1	04/11/13
Son of Westboro Baptist Church pastor tells story of escape, activism		Paul Fidalgo	04/10/13	0