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Heresy Now!

A roundup of news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community. Hosted by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Presented by the Center for Inquiry. Learn more at centerforinquiry.org

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    Where it Bites

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Secularism and fundamental rights threatened by the overturning of Roe; unsettling poll numbers; Italian space lasers; and more.

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    Good Day to Rob a Bank

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org.   This week: SCOTUS and school prayer; book bans bustin' out all over; tell the aliens where to find us; and more.

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    Sugar Pills and Powders

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Taking on the fraud of homeopathy; secret codes in Lunchables; calls for Mubarak Bala's release; haughty digital assistants; and more.

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    The Lowest of Nine Dimensions

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: QAnon goes mainstream; Mubarak Bala sentenced for blasphemy; Gen Z stops believin'; and more.

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    Prophecy, Epiphany, Madness, Stupidity

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Greg Locke's demons; Ginni Thomas and the Christianization of politics; defining God out of existence; anti-vaxxers punch each other on purpose; and more.

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    Lovingly Swaddled in Our Double Helix

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: The Center for Inquiry does awesome stuff; judge blocks DC kids' vaccine law; Lindsey Graham goes Full Religious Test; Americans have no idea who they live with; and more.

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    See. Sheep. Surrender.

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Ten years of Heresy; Raif Badawi released from prison; psychics behaving badly; theocrats behaving also badly; the future predicted and COVID decrypted; and more. 

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    Narcissism and QR Codes

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Brain shrinking; deadly lavender spray; New World Disorder; the fringe behind the Pentagon's UFO office; Cardinal Vigano vs. transhuman monsters; and more.

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    The Infections Our Creator Gave Us

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Remembering Carl Sagan; courts vs. the Establishment Clause; hedging about blasphemy laws; religion and misinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine; George Washington's fact check; and more.

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    A Fresh Re-Sprinkling

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Students protest forced evangelical revivals; Greg Locke's stinkin' witches; invalid baptisms; no one expects the Spanish vaccine inquisition

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    An Organism at War with Itself

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Superheroes of skepticism; blasphemy law for teachers in Oklahoma; ivermectin zombies (not really); who speaks for Earth? — and more.

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    Quantum Entangled Transhumanist Cyborgs

    A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Taking homeopathy to court; the Joe Rogan-Spotify-misinformation saga; anti-vaxxer warns about becoming a cyborg; bad Prince Charles and Michael Kaine impressions; and more.

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    Mass Formation Hypnosis

    Our first weekly edition of "Heresy Now!"  Human sacrifice, crazy Clapton, Neil Young vs. Spotify, good news in South Dakota, bad news everywhere else. Find more at morningheresy.org

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    It's All the Same Damn Thing

    Programming note!! Next week, Heresy Now! will begin a new life as a *weekly* podcast, starting Friday, January 28.  It's All the Same Damn Thing: Paul Offit on risk; adoption agency discriminates against Jewish couple; blasphemy death sentence in Pakistan. Find more at morningheresy.org

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    Insensitive Jerks

    Gorsuch v. secularism and health; escaping QAnon; insufficiently-Christian Crenshaw. Learn more at morningheresy.org  

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    104-year-old Body Double

    104-year-old Body Double: wrangling the nones; a Christian insurrection; anti-vaxxers drink pee Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    The Dull Slog of Being Merely Accurate

    SCOTUS and vaccine mandates; COVID testing scams; right-wing Christianity's persecution complex; Betty White and the occult. Learn more at morningheresy.org  

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    God Blew it with Brains

    The insurrection and Christian nationalism; explosive 5G misinfo; pope vs. puppies. Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    Proportional Freakout

    SETI and skepticism; 1 million new COVID cases; churches and Big Data; goldfish motorists. Learn more at morningheresy.org  

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    The Boiling Pot

    Secret codes of "Jeopardy!"; B.S. about Betty White; the Post touts alt-med; Canadians and their astrology. Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    Heresy Compounded by Lunacy

    Teaching how to think; TikTok moral panics; why astrology is dumb; Earth isn't a doughnut. Learn more at morningheresy.org  

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    Unwanted Chocolate

    Motivated reasoning and Soviet wheat yields; bonkers end-of-year lists; obnoxious lunch prayers; Bigfoot nests Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    Year of the Incomprehensible

    COVID cases break records; polls on pills and promises; Oz the contortionist; Harry Reid dies at 82.   Learn more at morningheresy.org  

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    Potential Disgrace Waiting in the Wings

    New CDC isolation guidelines; five stages of angst; book-banning bounty hunters.   Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    Worst Chain Restaurant Ever

    Quack doctors branch out; anti-vaxxers turn on Trump; researchers turn on Dr. Oz Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    Slime Molds and God-Shaped Holes

    Carl Zimmer on being alive; school shooting rumors on TikTok; James Webb telescope launch preview; the Barry Manilow barometer   Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    A Less-Bad Internet

    Secular holiday greetings; skeptics and 'The Exorcist'; astrological narcissism Learn more at morningheresy.org  

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    Show Me, Show Me, Show Me

    Dangerous 'quantum' crap; willful vaccine ignorance; perilous times for atheists in Africa, and more   Learn more at morningheresy.org

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    Belligerents Become Befuddled

    Overwhelmed by Omicron; docs behaving badly; psychics fail for another year. Learn more at MorningHeresy.org

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    Robust Balls of Ice

    Internet church seeks legitimacy; amending the Amendments; anti-vaxxer juggernauts; remembering Hitchens. Find The Morning Heresy news roundup at https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/      

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    Supervillain Dreams

    Nones keep rising; debunking works; crackdowns on eggs; fun with weather weapons

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    Now That's What I Call Doomscrolling!

    Gorsuch freaks out as SCOTUS backs NY vax mandate; one year of vaccines; bishop denies existence of fictional character; Uri Geller's aliens. Find The Morning Heresy news roundup at https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/

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    Solemn Mockery: First episode! Religion versus the law; escaping QAnon; madness in Missouri

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A roundup of news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community. Hosted by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Presented by the Center for Inquiry. Learn more at centerforinquiry.org

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