Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Human rights violations and breaches of secularism and international law on small scales remain problems. Violations on large scales inflicted wholesale upon victimized and, often, defenceless peoples is tragic, violent, and immediate, even spanning decades into long-term effects of the entire lives of most of the survivors. They may never return…
By Stephen Watson Recent years have seen a resurgence of “racial science” (the attempt to establish races as robust biological categories) and with it the attempt to ascribe the psychological and intellectual characteristics of people of different races to genetics (called “hereditarianism”). If the hereditarian thesis is correct, then the disparity in performance between black…
By Sandra Dunham Bayer is set to pay out $10.9 billion to settle a class action lawsuit from thousands of Americans who claim that their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by the well known herbicide Roundup. Case mediator, Ken Feinberg, claims that this is the “wise” thing for Bayer to do, rather than “roll the dice in American…
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By Edan Tasca Earlier this month the New Brunswick legislature began debating Bill 11, a motion to eliminate non-medical vaccine exceptions. Under the bill, students who are not vaccinated according Health Canada’s requirements would not be able to attend public schools, unless they have a medical exemption. Religious exemptions would not be acceptable. Unfortunately, the bill…
Update on Omer By Sandra Dunham [In case you missed it: Please see Secular Rescue: Help us Help Omer for background information.] Omer remains well, in COVID lockdown in Nepal. For over a month, we were unable to send money to Omer. However, Omer’s landlord graciously leant him money for groceries and allowed him to delay paying rent. Banks…