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    14 hours ago

    How COVID-19 Shines A Light On A Broken System: on Skeptical Inquirer Presents, Jan. 7 at 8pm ET

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    15 hours ago

    Welcome to the first Morning Heresy news roundup of 2021, a year that has the lowest of bars to clear, and may yet fail to do so nonetheless. Unleash the thread!

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  3. 15 hours ago

    Is it possible his fans will find ways to excuse even THIS? Yes, I fear it is all too possible. And we’ll probably see it in the Replies below. As he himself said, “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue & shoot somebody & I wouldn’t lose voters.”

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  4. Jan 3

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    30 Dec 2020

    Can I ask to come & do a shift on our phones, ringing our 80+ pts to explain that their 2nd dose of vaccine has been cancelled? Our PCN needs to cancel 1160 appts & rebook another 1160. At 5 mins per phone call, that's 193 hours work. Not to mention the grief & anger

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  6. Jan 1

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  7. 31 Dec 2020

    Hours remain in 2020, but you can stand with the Richard Dawkins Foundation in 2021 and beyond. Give today and your gift will be matched 3:1.

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  8. 31 Dec 2020

    In London, Hugh Montgomery, a professor who works in intensive care at the Whittington hospital in London, went further. Anyone not social distancing or following the rules had “blood on their hands”, he said.

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    31 Dec 2020

    Here we go, heretics. It’s your last Morning Heresy news roundup of 2020, a year in which some mistakes were made. We’re off for New Year’s Day, so no satisfying new digit on tomorrow’s Heresy. Let's get to the thread.

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  10. 31 Dec 2020

    The $50,000 3:1 matching gift expires at midnight EST tonight, so make your year-end gift go further with the match right now:

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  11. 31 Dec 2020

    Your brain contains internal models of the world in which you have lived. Updated from moment to moment. Can simulate future in the form of imagination. Your genome contains models of ancestral worlds. Updated from generation to generation. Cannot simulate future.

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  12. 31 Dec 2020

    The essential component of life anywhere is replicators: something like DNA. If (which I don’t believe) we are alone in the universe, would it follow that the origin of life on Earth was an event so statistically improbable that we are wasting our time trying to understand it?

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  13. 31 Dec 2020

    There’s a strong argument that although extraterrestrial life surely exists we’ll never encounter it. If we do, first contact will be by electromagnetic radiation not bodily presence. Reciprocal interaction, if any, will stumble through delays longer than a human lifetime.

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    30 Dec 2020

    URGENT ACTION: Tanzanian government must drop all the politically-motivated charges against immediately and unconditionally

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  15. 30 Dec 2020

    Until year-end I've INCREASED MY MATCHING DONATION to 3:1. Support for evolution education; Free downloads of my books in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi, and Indonesian; CFI projects like Secular Rescue.
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  16. 30 Dec 2020

    A new opportunity to make a real impact for reason and science: All year-end gifts will be matched 3:1. That means every dollar you give before December 31 will be matched with an additional $3 thanks to the match. Give today at .
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    30 Dec 2020

    It's time for the all-important second-to-last Morning Heresy news roundup of 2020. Today's episode: "Bristle at the Thistle." Bring on the thread!

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  18. 30 Dec 2020

    I am personally matching all gifts 3:1 to the Richard Dawkins Foundation before the end of the year. Science and rational discourse must be protected in 2021: .

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  19. 30 Dec 2020

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  20. 29 Dec 2020

    I haven’t seen this (can’t bear to watch myself on screen) but anyway here’s my episode on the Jim Jefferies podcast.

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