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The Righteous and the Woke – Why Evangelicals and Social Justice Warriors Trigger Me in the Same Way
I was Born Again until nearly the end of graduate school, a sincere Evangelical who went to church on Sunday and Wednesday with my family and to Thursday Bible study on my own. I dialed for convert…
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
Brilliant comparison. Please read it.
Opinion | When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward
We aren’t very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic.
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
Risk-taking decisions not all-or-none. Add up. Safety measures add up. Every time you take calculated risk to socialise, balance it: refrain from another mixing opportunity. Child goes to school? Balance it by reducing encounters out of school.
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
The lungs are ground zero for COVID-19, but blood clots may play a surprisingly big role in severe illness
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
Doctor friend calls this “the best article I have seen on ... how this virus is different & more dangerous than the regular flu ... If people in the administration understood this or gave a damn about it, there would be better briefing of the public”
Rishi Sunak has given us wartime finance fit for wartime economic conditions | Will Hutton
Rishi Sunak’s coronavirus rescue package is crucial for a collapsing economy. Social partnership is back • See all our coronavirus coverage• Coronavirus latest updates
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
Interestingly radical and important article by Will Hutton.
Anglicans and atheists, unite against intolerance
We now know from Peter Clarke’s report, published today but leaked last week, that there was indeed “co-ordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
I missed this very good article by Matt Ridley in 2014, or I would have tweeted it then.
CFI Thinks Outside the Pox
In the highly politicized vaccination wars raging in the United States right now, Ethan Lindenberger is a hero. In March, as a high school senior, the Ohio teen testified before Congress about how he defied his mother’s rabid anti-vaxxer views and started getting himself vaccinated. Lindenberger ...
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
Anti-vax movement: “A bizarre coming together of the religious Right and the Big Pharma conspiracy-theory Left”
Excellent article by its CEO, Robyn Blumner, shows the kind of thing @Center4Inquiry stands for. One of many good reasons to support CFI
Free Speech and Identity Politics
"The paradox of identity liberalism is that it paralyzes the capacity to think and act in a way that would actually accomplish the things it professes to want."
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
I only just spotted this article today when going back through Robyn Blumner’s excellent Editorials in CFI’s Free Inquiry magazine. What a superb writer she is. Her passionate commitment to freedom of speech persists from her days at ACLU.
Image of the Day: White Stripes
Black-and-white painted skin can help protect from insect bites.
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
The Darwinian survival value of zebra stripes has long been a puzzle. Hungarian research (referenced in the linked article) supports the theory that stripes are unattractive to dangerous biting insects. Now new research applies the theory to humans.
Self-Censorship on Campus Is Bad for Science
Amid heightened tensions on college campuses, well-established scientific ideas are suddenly meeting with stiff political resistance.
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
This is a sensible article. It’s depressing that she even needed to write it. Politically motivated opposition to scientific truth about individual differences is pernicious. And actually harmful to the very people it is supposed to protect.
Where now for Mark Zuckerberg after his – and our – loss of innocence? | Martin Moore
A year on from the Observer exposé, what has really changed for Facebook and its users?
Richard Dawkins
Writer, Scientist
Facebook: A “digital gangster” whose business model was based on gathering personal data for profit. Personal data was, for Facebook, equivalent to a currency.
Excellent article on the subversive influence of Facebook by Martin Moore in today’s Observer.
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