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It is no surprise that a Supreme Court dominated by religious conservatives has produced yet another ruling that privileges religion over all else, as is the case with their recent decision striking down California’s pandemic restrictions on in-person worship services. But as CFI Legal Director Nick Little points out, the privileging of religion is only …

Homeopathic fake medicine continues to be sold and marketed by retailers despite the fact that it has no effect whatsoever on any condition or ailment, save for relieving oneself of excess cash. As the Center for Inquiry presses ahead with major lawsuits against retailers Walmart and CVS, we are also tackling the issue of the …

In 2015, a celebrated secularist writer and ally of CFI, Avijit Roy, was attacked at a book fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by a gang of Islamic extremists who hacked him to death with machetes and badly injured his wife, Bonya Ahmed. That horrific event began a slew of similar killings over the next few years and …

The Biden administration has re-established the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which, on its face, is not exactly thrilling news to the nonreligious community. But at the very least, it is being headed once again by its director under President Obama, Melissa Rogers, who worked very well with secular organizations such as …

Millions of doses of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines are making their way across the country, but still far too many Americans are unwilling to be vaccinated, whether they are staunch anti-vaxxers, driven by misinformation, or simply hesitant or scared. Claudia Wallis at Scientific American collects some evidence-based methods for overcoming vaccine fears. We’re doing our part, too. CFI’s …

With the appointment of a new director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, President Biden is also elevating the position to the cabinet level. (In contrast, President Trump left this position vacant for a year and a half.) Biden will nominate Eric S. Lander, currently the director of the Broad Institute of …

We know the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was driven in large part by conspiracy theories, manufactured to convince a particular group of Americans that dark forces were aligning to rob them of their power and influence. (In order to operate large-scale Satanic child-slavery cartels, enabled by Bill Gates and 5G signals, maybe with the help …

Today, the new administration is set to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, an international treaty among almost 200 nations to combat global warming. President Trump, who had declared climate change to be a “hoax,” announced the United States’s withdrawal from the agreement early in his term, making the U.S. one of only three countries to …

The insurrectionists at the Capitol were fueled by a variety of lies, chiefly the false claim that President Trump had won the 2020 election. But the rioters were also largely unified—and believed themselves morally justified—under the banner of another falsehood: the myth that the United States is a Christian nation. “To me, God and country …

With the publication of his groundbreaking book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins brought fresh clarity to Darwin’s big idea, reframing our understanding of evolution by natural selection by focusing on the gene, not the individual organism, as the primary unit of evolution. In a new video, the YouTube channel Stated Clearly illustrates this idea with its latest animation, …

We know that vaccines are safe and that they most certainly do not cause autism, but of course the welcome introduction of COVID-19 vaccines also heralds a new wave of anti-vaxxer misformation and scaremongering. A recent NBC News piece by Dr. Lior Brimberg of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research dismantles the absurd and utterly …

Over the New Year holiday, the Center for Inquiry learned of the plight of Australian ex-Muslim activist Zara Kay, founder of the organization Faithless Hijabi. She was arrested in Tanzania and held in police custody for thirty-two hours without charge. There she was interrogated about her work to help women who are leaving Islam and …