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OPEN DISCUSSION JANUARY 2025
Jan 1, 2025 · 64This thread has been created for thoughtful, rational discussion on subjects for which there are not currently any dedicated threads. Please note that our Comment Policy applies as usual. There is a link to this at the foot of the page. DISCLAIMER: All comments posted throughout this website are the personal views of users and …
BOOK CLUB 2024
Jan 1, 2024 · 152This is the 2024 follow-on from the 2023 BOOK CLUB thread, which is now closed, though you can easily refer back to earlier discussions by clicking on the link. BOOK CLUB 2024 has been created to provide a dedicated space for the discussion of books. Pretty much any kind of book – it doesn’t have …
THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Oct 29, 2021 · 535This thread has been created as a central point for discussion about anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change so that as much information as possible can be held in one, easily accessible place. There will of course sometimes also be other climate change threads on specific new developments, and we’d encourage you to post on those too. …
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‘Children’s Healthcare Must Always Be Evidence-Led’
Dec 17, 2024From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! 2024 has been an eventful and uneven year, one marked by important steps forward and more than a few difficult setbacks. Progress, much like history, does not move in a straight line. No matter what the path, however, the intended destination remains (as Richard Dawkins himself says …
Gratitude and Renewed Commitment
Nov 26, 2024From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! It is Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., and I could not be more grateful to be part of such an active and wonderful global community of people dedicated to advocating on behalf of science and secular policy. The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science is …
Who We Want to Be as a Country
Oct 31, 2024From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! While Election Day proper is not until next week, millions of Americans have already voted. Elections are always important, but this year feels particularly significant. The choice this year is not just about individual candidates or policy agendas; as Public Religion Research Institute President Robert Jones said …
Seeing the Warning Lights Flashing
Sep 26, 2024 · 6From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! America is becoming less religious, particularly younger segments of the population. But that doesn’t mean fundamentalists have given up. A recent court case out of Indiana demonstrates that the teaching of evolution is still under assault by those who reject science in favor of the biblical account …
There Are No Small Battles
Aug 16, 2024From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! As they say, “there are only so many hours in a day.” Modern life makes it very difficult to keep up with our own to-do lists, much less everything else going on in the world. We need to prioritize to maintain our sanity from day to day. …
When ‘Sleepwalking’ Turns to a Full Sprint
Jul 17, 2024 · 2From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! What a difference a few weeks can make. Last month in this space, I noted a warning from California Representative Jared Huffman of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, who wrote that the United States is “sleepwalking into theocracy.” Since then, the sleepwalk has turned into a full sprint …
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‘Children’s Healthcare Must Always Be Evidence-Led’
Dec 17, 2024From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! 2024 has been an eventful and uneven year, one marked by important steps forward and more than a few difficult setbacks. Progress, much like history, does not move in a straight line. No matter what the path, however, the intended destination remains (as Richard Dawkins himself says …
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