Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Sandra Dunham Often, we think that government could change the way a country thinks, acts, and behaves, by amending or passing legislation. It seems to me that the opposite is true. Citizens change the way they think, act, and behave, and then government changes legislation. Why do I put this hypothesis forward? Because the…
By Leslie Rosenblood In the wake of the mosque shooting in Quebec, another in New Zealand, multiple attacks against synagogue congregations in the United States, and the bombing of Christian houses of worship in Sri Lanka, the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights decided to look into online hate speech,…
By Zack Dumont Healthcare and medical literature is fraught with limitations: It’s complex, vulnerable to various interpretations, and ultimately not well served by fleeting headlines. To effectively translate the knowledge uncovered in a research study into clinical practice, one must first determine whether the research methods are valid (i.e., did they conduct a good study?)…
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The other day someone came to me and asked my advice concerning the potential purchase of a new machine. It was meant to help with the following problem: Software often gets into a state in which people do not know whether certain features or functions ever get used or are even reachable by “flows” through…
I didn’t manage to get a July Conundrum in, and nobody had much to say about the June one. I press on with one that educational policy people should really think hard about. (HINT!) Predict the next value in this sequence: 0, 1, 1, 3, 2, 5, 3, 7, 4, … Now, imagine data from…
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