Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
Sandra Dunham In my home, the dialogue about COVID-19 and the rapidly increasing case numbers follows the narrative of “Why can’t people just do the right thing? Don’t people realize that their behaviour is making this worse?” And yet, when carefully examined, our own behaviour is, at times, less than stellar. So, why, when the…
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Edan Tasca On October 20, one of the skeptical community’s fiercest members, James “The Amazing” Randi, died of natural causes. He was 92. Born in Toronto in 1928, Randall James Hamilton Zwinge was skeptical from a young age, having quit summer school as a child because his teachers couldn’t offer proof of the teachings of…
By Keith Douglas This month’s riddle will be a simple question that was posed a few issues back: Is there anywhere — not on Earth — where there exists a river of Coca-Cola?
Examining Randomness
Details February 12th, 2020 marked 211 years since the birth of Charles Darwin. CFIC Ottawa celebrated (the next day) with a get-together including a talk on fossils by Carleton University PhD student Dana Korneisel. Dana gave us an animated informative talk on her research into the possibility of fossilized blood. We started at 7pm…
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