Press Releases

The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is going back to court to challenge the privileged status granted religious organizations and individuals under Texas marriage law. In a new lawsuit filed Friday in United States District Court, CFI is demanding legal recognition of marriage officiants who are trained and certified through its groundbreaking Secular Celebrant program. Currently, …

Robyn Blumner, President and CEO of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), has announced that Ronald Lindsay is the new editor for Free Inquiry magazine, the long-running journal of secular humanist thought. Free Inquiry began publishing in 1980 under the editorial leadership of philosopher Paul Kurtz. For over forty years, the magazine has been dedicated to …

The Morris D. and Selma V. Forkosch Awards were established by the Council for Secular Humanism and the Center for Inquiry to honor the year’s finest humanist writing; the Morris D. Forkosch Award recognizes the best humanist book of the year, while the Selma V. Forkosch Award honors the most outstanding article published in Free …

The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is proud to announce it will honor Brian Cox with the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award on Thursday, October 24. The award is presented annually to a distinguished individual from the worlds of science, scholarship, education, or entertainment who publicly proclaims the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever …

The Center for Inquiry’s (CFI) ScienceSaves program is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 Video Scholarship Contest. This year, ScienceSaves received more than 400 incredibly inspiring submissions from college-bound high school seniors across the United States, each detailing the impact science has had on them or someone they know personally. All the video …

The brightest stars of reason and science shine October 24–27 at the Horseshoe Las Vegas CSICon, the long-running conference for scientists, skeptics, and critical thinkers presented by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), will feature a star-studded collection of presenters this October 24–27.  The weekend-long event will include appearances by two of the world’s best-known …

For the third year in a row, ScienceSaves sponsored a nationwide campaign to recognize March 26 as National Science Appreciation Day. 2024 saw a record number of states answer that call and issue official proclamations to honor the transformative power of science.   As of today, a bipartisan group of governors from twenty-three states and the …

ScienceSaves, a pro-science advocacy program of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), launched its 2024 Science Clash Tournament today. Science Clash is a bracket-style competition that uses audience votes over multiple rounds to determine which landmark scientific advancement is named the Greatest of All Time. Last year, fire earned the title of “Greatest Scientific Achievement of …

ScienceSaves Encourages You to “Stand Up for Science” and Ask Your Governor to Issue an Official Proclamation In 2022, CFI’s ScienceSaves launched a nationwide grassroots effort to designate March 26 as National Science Appreciation Day. The date was selected to mark the anniversary of Jonas Salk’s announcement of his polio vaccine in 1953. Numerous states …

Over the past 30 years, Bill Nye has earned his place as one of America’s best-known and most beloved science advocates. The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is proud to announce it will honor Nye with the prestigious Richard Dawkins Award on Friday, October 27. Renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins will present the award in-person, followed …