Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC)
Your humanist community for scientific, skeptical, secular, and rational inquiry.
CFIC is retracting this article, as we did not sufficiently investigate some of the claims that were made. Here is a portion of the most recent statement from the American Psychological Association (APA) on the subject: “APA’s governing Council of Representatives seated a task force to review its August 2015 resolution in light…
By Keith Douglas To recap from last time, Democritus’ cone, as it is called, can be used (as have many of the conundrums) to reflect on idealizations, the relationship between math and the world, etc. I especially like it for the latter, because it shows actually that much of what we learned in math classes (particularly…
By Doug Skeggs The four pillars of the CFIC are secularism, scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and community building. You will note that human rights and anti-discrimination are not overtly referenced there. But I think the protection, promotion, and defence of human rights and social justice are inherently part of what it means to be a…
By Brian Campbell With everything happening in the United States, the killing of George Floyd by a police officer, the subsequent protests, the reaction of the U.S. President, and the response from the rest of the world, I feel obliged to tell a story of a time I witnessed a blatant example of racism, right…
By Keith Douglas Last time, I asked if there’s anywhere else in the universe with a river of Coca-Cola. Alex B wrote to say that because of the likelihood of all combinations of basic stuffs elsewhere in the universe, there is somewhere else that has Coke. I disagree, and there are some interesting metaphysical lessons here,…