From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! The goals of the Richard Dawkins Foundation—and its sibling organizations within the Center for Inquiry—are lofty, to say the least. Fostering a secular society that embraces science and humanism is an audacious undertaking. It’s helpful to remember that the path toward that better world is paved with …

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! The goals of the Richard Dawkins Foundation—and its sibling organizations within the Center for Inquiry—are lofty, to say the least. Fostering a secular society that embraces science and humanism is an audacious undertaking. It’s helpful to remember that the path toward that better world is paved with …

If your medical practitioner offers you “homeoprophylaxis immunization pellets” to prevent COVID-19, find another doctor. Homeoprophylaxis is simply a more sciencey-sounding way to say “homeopathy,” a blatantly worthless pseudoscience that does not and cannot alleviate any symptom or treat any ailment whatsoever. Juli Anne Mazi, a naturopathic “doctor” in Napa, California, was offering these magic …

Anti-vaccine hostility is no longer exclusive to desperate celebrities and fringe activists. In some states, it’s becoming government policy. Last week in Tennessee, Dr. Michelle Fiscus was forced out of her position as medical director of the state’s Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization program, because she had correctly informed medical professionals that Tennessee law allowed minors …

In 2005, violent protests erupted in Denmark and throughout the Muslim world in response to cartoons published in the Danish publication Jyllands-Posten, the most famous of which was a caricature of what appeared to be the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban, drawn by cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who died this week at the age …

Benjamin Radford recently wrote about how misquotes in social media posts, be they misattributed, mistaken, or simply made-up, gain traction and become widely believed. “When people see information that supports their assumptions and beliefs,” he wrote, “they are more likely to believe and accept it—even when there is little or no evidence it’s true.” We ran …

One of the things that makes the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES) such an effective program is that it meets teachers where they are, both literally and figuratively. TIES is a program of the Richard Dawkins Foundation that helps educators teach evolution and answer its critics. With the careful return of in-person events, TIES …