Center for Inquiry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Jack Cheng, author of a new middle-grade novel called See You in the Cosmos, says he was inspired by Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. The story involves a boy and his dog (named Carl Sagan) trying to launch an iPod into space. https://t.co/AATJWv21c5

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Jeff Sharlet (author of The Family and C Street) wrote an interesting Twitter thread last week. https://t.co/jdJYDm7PKn

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…several books including #Islam Evolving, An Illusion of Harmony, Science and Nonbelief, Why Intelligent Design Fails (coedited with Matt Young), The #Ghost in the Universe, and most recently Weirdness! What Fake Science and the Paranormal Tell Us about the Nature of Science…

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The complete video from last week’s Skeptical Inquirer Presents with Mike Rothschild, “The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything,” is now available to watch online any time. https://t.co/5BF1flIBkj

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Oh, you know, no big deal, just @rdfrsTIES director Bertha Vazquez hanging out for a little chat with @ChelseaClinton! March 7, Bertha talks to Chelsea Clinton about her new children's book, She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference https://t.co/7fwAYXmdcI https://t.co/JnFCUp2WkS

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ROBERT G. INGERSOLL: "Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education, and the assassin of freedom." Consider celebrating the 189th birthday of the #GreatAgnostic by making a gift to science and reason: https://t.co/3jgORh0hnq https://t.co/MwtjmhROQ1

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Jim: "There is no life after death. I hate to be the bringer of bad news." Psychics who claim to talk to the dead are tapping into our innate desire to believe in life after death, but so-called psychics like Tyler Henry are "full of crap."

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.@pesco at Boing Boing delights in a tribute website for “Fortean” author John Keel, who wrote The Mothman Prophecies. The site includes entries from Keel’s unpublished UFO dictionary... And yeah, “detrimental robot” is pretty much how I think of myself. https://t.co/h1EsR2VuNp

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Oh, you know, no big deal, just @rdfrsTIES director Bertha Vazquez hanging out for a little chat with @ChelseaClinton! March 7, Bertha talks to Chelsea Clinton about her new children's book, She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference https://t.co/7fwAYXmdcI https://t.co/JnFCUp2WkS

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*ARCH-ENEMIES: Anti–humanism, People who hate laughing *DID YOU KNOW: Leighann is the author of Real Women Do It Standing Up: Stories from the Career of a Very Funny Lady, and recipient of the 2019 #Humanist Arts Award. 14 fellows, six countries, and the most outstanding...