Centre for Inquiry - Ottawa

Shoppers Drug Mart Named in $30M Lawsuit for Selling Homeopathic Products

CFI Ottawa — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:52:02 +0000

CFI Canada is lending critical scientific support in a $30 million lawsuit against Shoppers Drug Mart and Boiron Canada.

Click here to watch the video; read the rest of the press release below the fold.

Religion not important to Canadians

swissguy5 — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:30:58 +0000

This is very promising:

Religion is not important to Canadians

Reason Rally Images

CFI Ottawa — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:49:41 +0000

photos from the Reason Rally

I am an atheist

CFI Ottawa — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:02:32 +0000

A' Week is an online event that runs 18-24 March 2012. The idea of 'A' Week is simple - to raise awareness of how many people are ‘Good without Gods’ and don’t need religions to influence their lives.

CASS Report Rebuts Climate Denialism at Carleton U

CFI Ottawa — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:41:03 +0000

CFI's Committe for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism has released a report slamming a course taught at a Carleton University over what they call "biased and inaccurate" claims concerning climate change.

How we know global warming is real and human caused

swissguy5 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:14:28 +0000

From eSkeptic: How we know global warming is real and human caused:

How we know global warming is real and human made

This Post is Offensive

eamon knight — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:54:21 +0000

If free speech doesn't include freedom to offend, then it isn't free.

Freedom of speech in UK universities

holyprimate — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:09:34 +0000

I try to keep my blogging scientific. Science is easy and I understand it well enough, everything else is horribly subjective. Still, I do have an interest in recent events in the UK and so I thought I would post my opinions of what was going on:

Jessica Ahlquist is awesome

Theo Bromine — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:56:27 +0000

It's impressive to watch Ahlquist's determination and persistence in the battle to have a religious prayer removed from the wall of the auditorium at her public school.

Questioning Answers: The CFI Ottawa Podcast #6

Brad — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:36:59 +0000

Here it is, the 6th episode of the monthly CFI Ottawa podcast… now with 100% more “having a name”.

This month we play another round of “Guess the Philosopher”, talk about “baby woo” (not the martial art… but still interesting!) and a bunch of other stuff.