Thread by @center4inquiry

The Morning Heresy, parsing the emotional, unpredictable, and completely incomprehensible, usually well before lunchtime.

Let us begin our news roundup thread.

centerforinquiry.org/blog/emotional…

Nick Little, our legal director, saw an ad on Facebook promising to detect his “intolerance” to “GMOs.” This is obviously nonsense, so Nick sent them a letter and warned them as much. And, well, it looks like they backed down. Read all about it.
centerforinquiry.org/blog/can-you-d…

(Perhaps after seeing Nick on CFI Insider, they were like, we are NOT messing with this guy.)

centerforinquiry.org/video/get-to-k…

I have a feeling skepticalinquirer-dot-org is about to get a lot of Google traffic, because @AdaMcVean put up an article asking the Big Question: Is wet pet food better than dry food?

(I also learned that human taste-test pet food. Nnnngggggaugh.)

skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/wet-…

Richard Dawkins turns 80 tomorrow! We'll have more about that, but it's also an occasion marked by The Times (UK) with a profile and interview, but it’s paywalled. So, I hope it’s good. thetimes.co.uk/article/richar…

Skeptical Inquirer’s Benjamin Radford was the guest on the Roots of Reality podcast with Ben Baumann. Listen here. soundcloud.com/ben-baumann-49…

.@ryanburge's new book "The Nones" is excerpted at @DeseretNews:

"The problem with social science is that it’s the study of people. People are emotional, unpredictable and completely unintelligible most of the time."
deseret.com/indepth/2021/3…

PREACH, BROTHER.

Burge is also interviewed by @janariess who asks if Christians who don’t attend church are “on the way out” of religion. “Church attendance is the first thing that goes, then belonging and finally belief — in that order. Belief goes last.” religionnews.com/2021/03/24/the…

.@ProfKJoshi looks at the complicated business of dealing with the swastika, of course associated with (and adopted by) Nazis, but also a symbol of prosperity for Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Native Americans, and other indigenous peoples.
religionnews.com/2021/03/24/the…

Rep. Russ Fulcher is wary of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act because he’s afraid religious organizations wouldn’t be allowed to discriminate against someone whose pregnancy they don’t approve of. americanindependent.com/house-hearing-…

Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith says we can’t have voting on Sundays because of God.

friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/03/24/gop…

.@anaghasrikanth at The Hill highlights the “Disinformation Dozen,” twelve of the worst offenders for anti-vaxxer misinformation. thehill.com/changing-ameri…

@RuthReader at @FastCompany looks at the long-term deleterious effects of the pseudodocumentary Plandemic, coining the useful term “Plandemic hangover.” fastcompany.com/90611781/pland…

We did our own whatever-happened-to piece on Plandemic too! centerforinquiry.org/blog/plandemic…

Sow, meet reap: After spending the year spreading misinformation, Franklin Graham is getting backlash from his flock for telling them to get vaccinated.

friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/03/24/fra…

The Rock’s not cooking, he’s cupping. And showing it off to his 8 trillion (approx.) social media followers. Rohin Francis (@MedCrisis) does a whole video about it why a celebrity showing off their indulgences in quackery is dangerous.

medpagetoday.com/primarycare/al…

.@stevennovella calls out what he says is an “essentially worthless” study touting the benefits of acupuncture for cancer patients.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-worthless-ac…

Time to move on with our day and, indeed, our lives. You can subscribe to this delightful news confection, did you know? It's true. centerforinquiry.org/newsletter/?ut…

See you out there on the Information Superhighway!