Infected with Dogma: How South America’s Response to the Zika Virus Fails Women
Seemingly overnight, a virus once previously thought to be mild has received national attention and elicited warnings from international organizations. Spreading now across more than two dozen countries, the Zika virus was once considered to... Read More
“Teaching the Controversy” in Mississippi: Creationism Sneaks in Again
Religious conservatives in government are at it again, trying to use taxpayer money to inject religious teachings into public school science classrooms. Mississippi State Rep. Mark Formby recently introduced HB 50, a bill that would... Read More
Humanists Walking the Walk for Social Justice
The United Nations has recognized February 20 as World Social Justice Day since 2007. The observance of this day, according to the UN’s description, “should support efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of... Read More
Would You Let Mushrooms Eat Your Body after Death?
Most of us don’t like to ponder our own death or the nothingness of nonexistence, but for those who’ve already gotten past the question of what happens after we die, Jae Rhim Lee and Mike... Read More
The Case against Evangelical Higher Education
On February 10, Wheaton College officials and Wheaton Professor Larycia Hawkins gave a press conference in which they announced they had mutually agreed to part ways. “Publicly the school and Dr. Hawkins say they are... Read More
What Humanists Can Learn After Iowa and New Hampshire
This is an article published under the Center for Freethought Equality, the 501c4 lobbying organization of the American Humanist Association. I know that Iowa is technically the first state to decide which presidential candidates will... Read More
Darwin Day Revelation: Evolution, Not Religion, is the Source of Morality
As the world celebrates another Darwin Day, much of humanity still refuses to accept evolution. Creationists pretend that their argument is with science. Their posts are littered with gems of motivated reasoning such as this:... Read More