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Preserving freethought history occasionally involves a paint scraper.
The Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum is being repaired and repainted, while work continues to digitize the Ingersoll Papers.
Help preserve the Great Agnostic’s legacy:
https://t.co/xhHD7Eonc6
Roswell has excellent PR. NM’s other strange stories don’t get the same billing, but @BTRadford knows them well. He joins @LeighannLord to talk ghost stories, monster sightings, supposed miracles, and alleged UFO crashes.
@SkeptInquirer Presents • Thurs, Oct 8 • 7pm ET
Watch free:
https://t.co/VNVeUkCTgz
Some children can’t be vaccinated for medical reasons. Part of their protection depends on their classmates being vaccinated.
The GRACE Act would threaten federal school funding unless schools allow religious vaccine exemptions without requiring supporting documents. Ask your House member to oppose H.R. 5075:
https://t.co/Y4rTYLrojc
RFK Jr. said his right to Gardasil lawsuit fees would go to his son. @HHSGov says it went to his former law firm, Wisner Baum. Senators want the terms. HHS says he fully divested.
From @thehill: https://t.co/ECaApPo3bR
Today's #MorningHeresy: “The Dark Underbelly of Altruism” – Free Inquiry’s New Issue, Opposing the GRACE Act, and Politicized Science’s Impact on Patients
https://t.co/HyAgMM1fgR
Betty Lachgar (@IbtissameBetty) posted a T-shirt photo. People threatened to kill her. Morocco sentenced her to 30 months in prison. Those who threatened her were not jailed.
CFI raised her case at the UN Human Rights Council: https://t.co/b2ojc4bLDG
Today's #MorningHeresy: “A Glaring Double Standard” – CFI Addresses the UNHRC, Religious Charter Schools, and Vaccine Recommendations
https://t.co/VUVK2AGc0h
Cicero was asking astrologers, dream interpreters, and omen readers to show their work 2,000 years ago. He also treated skepticism as something you could live by.
Massimo Pigliucci joins @SkeptInquirer live tonight at 7pm ET to dicuss. Free:
https://t.co/Ms7aZBj3ro
Pluribus imagines a parasite that eliminates violence and makes humanity happy. Very considerate.
Real parasites manipulate hosts when it helps them survive and spread. No one's trying to improve society here.
Major S1 spoilers: https://t.co/JGDIIeSEy9
Today's #MorningHeresy: “Nothing Neutral About It,” – New Point of Inquiry, MAHA Access Merchants, and the Commandments in Court
https://t.co/xwa7VTKEfa
In 2015, John Mead’s sixth graders followed the Homo naledi discovery as it unfolded. He later co-wrote Reading the Bones.
Tomorrow, he joins @rdfrsTIES to talk human evolution and teaching science while questions remain open.
Sept. 23 · 6 pm ET: https://t.co/qnhKDDYK0d
"Live Free or Die” apparently extends to Sunday mornings.
New Hampshire has the nation’s highest share of self-identified atheists at 11%. Nearly half the state is religiously unaffiliated.
@ReligionMag traces that shift:
https://t.co/b2gGX9bsRS
Trump says his administration plans to split some childhood immunizations into five 20% doses, six months apart. CSI Fellow @DrPaulOffit says that would make them ineffective, not safer. The immune system doesn't care how clean the math looks.
From @CNN:
https://t.co/ri0YH9f966
Apparently, we’ve been arguing about astrology for more than 2,000 years.
On Sept. 24, Massimo Pigliucci looks back to Cicero’s case against divination and why skepticism was (for Cicero) also a way to live.
Live at 7pm ET:
https://t.co/Ms7aZBjBgW
Today's #MorningHeresy: “They Get Headlines” – Opposing Naturopathy in Ohio, RFK Jr. Unbound, and Rejecting Religious Repression
https://t.co/RAf5ZX3jV9
Magnets can’t make water more watery. Meanwhile, deaths following ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled from 2020–2025 compared with the prior 6 years.
This week’s @Quackwatch21 follows the evidence from expensive nonsense to matters of life and death: https://t.co/46S44AWIt4
Before freethought had social media, it had stamps and prison records.
Two journals shared ideas across the Atlantic, and both founders served time under blasphemy or obscenity laws.
@FreeInquiry's @DJtotheS asks what that history means now: https://t.co/r7RT3vbe6h