A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Secularism and fundamental rights threatened by the overturning of Roe; unsettling poll numbers; Italian space lasers; and more.
May 06, 2022•21 min•Ep. 33
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: SCOTUS and school prayer; book bans bustin' out all over; tell the aliens where to find us; and more.
Apr 29, 2022•40 min•Ep. 32
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Taking on the fraud of homeopathy; secret codes in Lunchables; calls for Mubarak Bala's release; haughty digital assistants; and more.
Apr 15, 2022•31 min•Ep. 31
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: QAnon goes mainstream; Mubarak Bala sentenced for blasphemy; Gen Z stops believin'; and more.
Apr 08, 2022•28 min•Ep. 30
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Greg Locke's demons; Ginni Thomas and the Christianization of politics; defining God out of existence; anti-vaxxers punch each other on purpose; and more.
Apr 01, 2022•29 min•Ep. 29
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: The Center for Inquiry does awesome stuff; judge blocks DC kids' vaccine law; Lindsey Graham goes Full Religious Test; Americans have no idea who they live with; and more.
Mar 25, 2022•32 min•Ep. 28
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Ten years of Heresy; Raif Badawi released from prison; psychics behaving badly; theocrats behaving also badly; the future predicted and COVID decrypted; and more.
Mar 18, 2022•28 min•Ep. 27
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Brain shrinking; deadly lavender spray; New World Disorder; the fringe behind the Pentagon's UFO office; Cardinal Vigano vs. transhuman monsters; and more.
Mar 11, 2022•27 min
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Remembering Carl Sagan; courts vs. the Establishment Clause; hedging about blasphemy laws; religion and misinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine; George Washington's fact check; and more.
Mar 04, 2022•35 min•Ep. 25
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Students protest forced evangelical revivals; Greg Locke's stinkin' witches; invalid baptisms; no one expects the Spanish vaccine inquisition
Feb 18, 2022•29 min•Ep. 24
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Superheroes of skepticism; blasphemy law for teachers in Oklahoma; ivermectin zombies (not really); who speaks for Earth? — and more.
Feb 11, 2022•29 min•Ep. 23
A roundup of the week's news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Learn more at morningheresy.org. This week: Taking homeopathy to court; the Joe Rogan-Spotify-misinformation saga; anti-vaxxer warns about becoming a cyborg; bad Prince Charles and Michael Kaine impressions; and more.
Feb 04, 2022•22 min•Ep. 22
Our first weekly edition of "Heresy Now!" Human sacrifice, crazy Clapton, Neil Young vs. Spotify, good news in South Dakota, bad news everywhere else. Find more at morningheresy.org
Jan 28, 2022•28 min•Ep. 21
Programming note!! Next week, Heresy Now! will begin a new life as a *weekly* podcast, starting Friday, January 28. It’s All the Same Damn Thing: Paul Offit on risk; adoption agency discriminates against Jewish couple; blasphemy death sentence in Pakistan. Find more at morningheresy.org
Jan 21, 2022•11 min•Ep. 20
Gorsuch v. secularism and health; escaping QAnon; insufficiently-Christian Crenshaw. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 19, 2022•12 min•Ep. 19
104-year-old Body Double: wrangling the nones; a Christian insurrection; anti-vaxxers drink pee Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 18, 2022•19 min•Ep. 18
SCOTUS and vaccine mandates; COVID testing scams; right-wing Christianity’s persecution complex; Betty White and the occult. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 07, 2022•12 min•Ep. 17
The insurrection and Christian nationalism; explosive 5G misinfo; pope vs. puppies. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 06, 2022•10 min•Ep. 16
SETI and skepticism; 1 million new COVID cases; churches and Big Data; goldfish motorists. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 05, 2022•14 min•Ep. 15
Secret codes of “Jeopardy!”; B.S. about Betty White; the Post touts alt-med; Canadians and their astrology. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 04, 2022•14 min•Ep. 14
Teaching how to think; TikTok moral panics; why astrology is dumb; Earth isn’t a doughnut. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Jan 03, 2022•17 min•Ep. 13
Motivated reasoning and Soviet wheat yields; bonkers end-of-year lists; obnoxious lunch prayers; Bigfoot nests Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 30, 2021•15 min•Ep. 12
COVID cases break records; polls on pills and promises; Oz the contortionist; Harry Reid dies at 82. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 29, 2021•17 min•Ep. 11
New CDC isolation guidelines; five stages of angst; book-banning bounty hunters. Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 28, 2021•9 min•Ep. 10
Quack doctors branch out; anti-vaxxers turn on Trump; researchers turn on Dr. Oz Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 27, 2021•16 min•Ep. 8
Carl Zimmer on being alive; school shooting rumors on TikTok; James Webb telescope launch preview; the Barry Manilow barometer Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 22, 2021•13 min•Ep. 7
Secular holiday greetings; skeptics and ‘The Exorcist’; astrological narcissism Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 21, 2021•16 min•Ep. 7
Dangerous ‘quantum’ crap; willful vaccine ignorance; perilous times for atheists in Africa, and more Learn more at morningheresy.org
Dec 20, 2021•17 min•Ep. 6
Overwhelmed by Omicron; docs behaving badly; psychics fail for another year. Learn more at MorningHeresy.org
Dec 17, 2021•14 min•Ep. 5
Internet church seeks legitimacy; amending the Amendments; anti-vaxxer juggernauts; remembering Hitchens. Find The Morning Heresy news roundup at https://centerforinquiry.org/blog/category/the-morning-heresy/
Dec 16, 2021•16 min•Ep. 4