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03/14/2018

CWRU appears to have its own brand of quantum mysticism of late. (And yes, Prof. Laszlo is using "quantum" in *that* sense.)

A forthcoming management book from Fowler Center Advisory Board Member Frederick Chavalit Tsao and Professor of Organizational Behavior Chris Laszlo, Quantum Leadership will feature a digital platform, global practitioner conferences, executive workshops, alliances with like-minded leaders & organiz...

10/18/2016

Wright wrote the National Book Award finalist, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief" (2013), and he also won a Pulitzer for his bestseller, "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" (2006).

The 2016–17 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series continues its series at The Maltz Performing Arts Center with award-winning author Lawrence Wright Wednesday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. A limited number of student tickets will be available in person beginni...

08/24/2016

This is why we need vocal skepticism on campus—groups like NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, can get away with spreading pseudomedical advice at an event for first year undergrads!

04/11/2016

"All are welcome to attend the events no matter how—or if—they worship."

03/01/2016

CFI has summer internships available! http://www.centerforinquiry.net/oncampus/news/now_accepting_applications_cfi_internship_opportunities_for_summer_2016/

Each year, CFI provides opportunities for students to get more involved with the freethought movement by offering student internships and volunteer opportunities at CFI locations across North America. The following are the internship positions for summer 2016.

02/11/2016

Hi Skeptics! As a reminder, we have a meeting NEXT WEEK in Thwing 301 at 6:30 PM! We'll be having a belated Darwin Day celebration by talking about the life and works of Charles Darwin and the state of science education in America. Light refreshments will be provided.

10/09/2015

Recent pseudoscience making headlines:

Daraprim is a half-century old drug that does not in any way benefit cancer patients or HIV or AIDS patients unless they are infected with malaria or another deadly parasite.

As such is the case with fifty year old inventions, this drug is free-of-the-art meaning if any large group of people really had reason to care whether the drug was $13 or $750, then any generic drug company could enter the market and make and sell the drug.
Alas, no generic drug company exists because there is hardly market for the drug as most people have developed resistance to it...and it does more harm than good.

Martin Shkreli is purported as a scapegoat by the media. Welcome to biotech, this happens all the time. Only, this time, the media got crazy.
He's just a businessman and he might actually do some good if he gets funding to make this outdated drug a lot better, which was probably his goal with the price hike.

"Daraprim might give you cancer if you take it."
Just say that to people who'd rather read headlines about Shkreli destroying the lives of cancer patients instead of reading research papers and facts.

09/28/2015

If you happen to be on campus this Wednesday (9/30) from 16:30–17:30:

Lecture series

05/18/2015

Interesting review of Jerry Coyne's (a prominent evolutionary biologist at U of C and New Atheist author) latest book, "Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible", by CWRU's own Timothy Beall, a prominent Bible Scholar and Professor of Religious Studies.

Jerry Coyne, like biblical literalists, is blind to centuries of scholarly nuance and tradition.

04/23/2015

Check out this article by activist Zack Kopplin about the usage of legal back-doors to teaching Creationism in schools.
http://tinyurl.com/nzcx2g7

When I was a high school senior in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2010, I began a campaign to repeal my state’s “creationism law,” which allows teachers to sneak religion into public school science classes by using materials that criticize evolution. Seventy-eight Nobel laureates and many other prominen…

04/20/2015

This Friday, the Public Affairs Discussion Group will have Irena Kenneley, PhD, RN [and a bunch of other letters] from the School of Nursing lead a discussion entitled, "Avoiding Vaccinations: Reasons and Consequences"! Check it out at 12:30 in the KSL's Dampeer Room!

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04/17/2015

This looks interesting! Monday (4/20) @ 18:30 in the Tink.

The Muslim Student Association will host a talk by Zareena Grewal, assistant professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University and author of “Islam is a Foreign Country,” on Monday, April 20, at 6:30 p.m. in Tinkham Veale University, Ballroom C.