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Heresy Now!

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A roundup of news relevant to the secular, skeptic, reality-based community. Hosted by Paul Fidalgo, creator of The Morning Heresy blog and newsletter. Presented by the Center for Inquiry. Learn more at centerforinquiry.org
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Episodes

Where it Bites

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, 202221 minEp. 33

Good Day to Rob a Bank

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, 202240 minEp. 32

Sugar Pills and Powders

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, 202231 minEp. 31

The Lowest of Nine Dimensions

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, 202228 minEp. 30

Prophecy, Epiphany, Madness, Stupidity

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, 202229 minEp. 29

Lovingly Swaddled in Our Double Helix

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, 202232 minEp. 28

See. Sheep. Surrender.

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, 202228 minEp. 27

Narcissism and QR Codes

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, 202227 min

The Infections Our Creator Gave Us

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, 202235 minEp. 25

A Fresh Re-Sprinkling

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, 202229 minEp. 24

An Organism at War with Itself

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, 202229 minEp. 23

Quantum Entangled Transhumanist Cyborgs

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, 202222 minEp. 22

Mass Formation Hypnosis

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, 202228 minEp. 21

It’s All the Same Damn Thing

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, 202211 minEp. 20

Insensitive Jerks

Gorsuch v. secularism and health; escaping QAnon; insufficiently-Christian Crenshaw. Learn more at morningheresy.org

Jan 19, 202212 minEp. 19

104-year-old Body Double

104-year-old Body Double: wrangling the nones; a Christian insurrection; anti-vaxxers drink pee Learn more at morningheresy.org

Jan 18, 202219 minEp. 18

The Dull Slog of Being Merely Accurate

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, 202212 minEp. 17

God Blew it with Brains

The insurrection and Christian nationalism; explosive 5G misinfo; pope vs. puppies. Learn more at morningheresy.org

Jan 06, 202210 minEp. 16

Proportional Freakout

SETI and skepticism; 1 million new COVID cases; churches and Big Data; goldfish motorists. Learn more at morningheresy.org

Jan 05, 202214 minEp. 15

The Boiling Pot

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, 202214 minEp. 14

Heresy Compounded by Lunacy

Teaching how to think; TikTok moral panics; why astrology is dumb; Earth isn’t a doughnut. Learn more at morningheresy.org

Jan 03, 202217 minEp. 13

Unwanted Chocolate

Motivated reasoning and Soviet wheat yields; bonkers end-of-year lists; obnoxious lunch prayers; Bigfoot nests Learn more at morningheresy.org

Dec 30, 202115 minEp. 12

Year of the Incomprehensible

COVID cases break records; polls on pills and promises; Oz the contortionist; Harry Reid dies at 82. Learn more at morningheresy.org

Dec 29, 202117 minEp. 11

Worst Chain Restaurant Ever

Quack doctors branch out; anti-vaxxers turn on Trump; researchers turn on Dr. Oz Learn more at morningheresy.org

Dec 27, 202116 minEp. 8

Slime Molds and God-Shaped Holes

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, 202113 minEp. 7

A Less-Bad Internet

Secular holiday greetings; skeptics and ‘The Exorcist’; astrological narcissism Learn more at morningheresy.org

Dec 21, 202116 minEp. 7

Show Me, Show Me, Show Me

Dangerous ‘quantum’ crap; willful vaccine ignorance; perilous times for atheists in Africa, and more Learn more at morningheresy.org

Dec 20, 202117 minEp. 6

Belligerents Become Befuddled

Overwhelmed by Omicron; docs behaving badly; psychics fail for another year. Learn more at MorningHeresy.org

Dec 17, 202114 minEp. 5

Robust Balls of Ice

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, 202116 minEp. 4
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