Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
By Sandra Dunham CFIC member and retired accountant John Manuel took the raw data provided in CFIC’s first report on the cost of religion in Canada, and concluded that our numbers understated the tax savings for donations to charities whose self-declared primary purpose is “Advancement of Religion.” Mr. Manuel and I reviewed the numbers and determined that the…
On this day, a baby was born who would grow up to change the course of human history
By Seanna Watson The first vaccine, a preventive treatment for smallpox, was developed in the late 1700s. Over the years, vaccines have revolutionized medicine, saving millions of lives . Yet in the past few years, we have seen an increase of people who are opposed to vaccines. The rate of philosophical exe mptions for children in alternative public…
Dr. Michael Allen will cover the common types of health research methods that deal with therapies, and how that research is used to develop national guideline recommendations.
By Sandra Dunham While scientists have relentlessly researched and reported on the unmistakable impact of humans on climate change, an equally relentless counterargument has claimed that climate change does not exist, and/or that climate change is naturally occurring with no human effect. Have you ever wondered how people can persist in the counterargument in light…
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