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Mashup Score: 18CSICon Recap: Days Three & Four | Center for Inquiry - 3 year(s) ago
Following a legend onstage can be a daunting task. Following two legends on-stage together? Normally that’d be a public speaking “death sentence.” But over the course of the weekend, one CSICon presenter after another made it look easy. Saturday and Sunday saw an impressive array of guests deliv …
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Mashup Score: 6Tyson, Dawkins, Penn & Teller Headline CSICon 2022 in Las Vegas | Center for Inquiry - 3 year(s) ago
Center for Inquiry has released the full roster of speakers and panelists for CSICon 2022, which returns to the Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas October 20–23. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) has released the full schedule of speakers and events for CSICon 2022, the world’s foremost skeptics’ conference, w …
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Table of Contents Harms to Consumers Legal & Lobbying Action Interests & Resources Get Involved When it comes to dealing with pseudoscience, just being right isn’t enough. We need not only to show how pseudoscience is wrong, but also address the ways it harms people. CFI’s goals are …
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It’s the end of a long, long, long week, and it’s time for the Friday edition of your Morning Heresy news roundup for secular, skeptic, reality-based folks. Don’t forget, there’s a whole new manifestation of this delightful publication that puts all of these news items and bad jokes directly int …
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Mashup Score: 14How the Hell Did It Get This Bad? Timothy Caulfield Battles the Infodemic, March 3 | Center for Inquiry - 3 year(s) ago
The spread of misinformation seems to intensify with each passing week. From social media to cable news to popular podcasts, science-free bunk is everywhere. The ongoing “infodemic” is doing tangible harm to public health, public discourse, and public trust. How did we get here and what can we d …
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Mashup Score: 10How the Hell Did It Get This Bad? Timothy Caulfield Battles the Infodemic, March 3 | Center for Inquiry - 3 year(s) ago
The spread of misinformation seems to intensify with each passing week. From social media to cable news to popular podcasts, science-free bunk is everywhere. The ongoing “infodemic” is doing tangible harm to public health, public discourse, and public trust. How did we get here and what can we d …
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Mashup Score: 18Consumers Feel “Scammed” by Walmart and CVS over Homeopathic Fake Medicine, Survey Shows | Center for Inquiry - 4 year(s) ago
Survey Respondents Lose Trust in Megaretailers, Express Confusion and Betrayal, Favor Clearer Labeling Click to view full size. Being presented with the facts about homeopathic products leads Americans to lose significant trust in the two largest drug retailers, Walmart and CVS, both of which ar …
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Mashup Score: 4Timothy Caulfield Fights the Battle against Bunk on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Dec. 17 | Center for Inquiry - 4 year(s) ago
Timothy Caulfield on the Infodemic: Debunking Works, So Let’s Get to It! The spread of conspiracy theories and harmful misinformation is a defining characteristic of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it often feels like trying to talk someone out of false beliefs only makes things worse. What’s to be d …
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