Center for Inquiry (CFI) - NYC

09/16/2025

TONIGHT: a TIES Webinar

Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer

Seven Decades traces the story of how humans went from short, precarious lives to the unprecedented longevity of the modern era. The book emerged from a desire to explain the evolutionary roots of our extended lifespans and to explore what that longevity means for our health, purpose, and social lives today. Inspired by the striking contrast between the lives of people in small-scale, subsistence societies and those in modern industrial nations—especially in how they age, remain active, and maintain social ties late in life—Seven Decades offers a compelling narrative of how our long lives came to be—and how we might live them better.

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Seven Decades traces the story of how humans went from short, precarious lives to the unprecedented longevity of the modern era. The book emerged from a desire to explain the evolutionary roots of our extended lifespans and to explore what that longevity means for our health, purpose, and social liv...

02/06/2025

01/21/2025

At CSICON this year I gave talk about topics over which skeptics have and continue to disagree with each other. My core theme was that these are the topics we absolutely should be discussing with each other, especially at skeptical conferences. Nothing should be taboo or too controversial. We are an

01/18/2025

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Gender-affirming medications rarely prescribed to U.S. adolescents

Puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormones are rarely prescribed to U.S. transgender and gender diverse adolescents, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and FOLX Health.

01/06/2025

Join me at The Earth's Core: Engine of Our Planet (FREE at the Simons Foundation)

01/01/2025

CFI getting some love!

05/04/2024

Thank You to Prof. Taner Edis for a very engaging talk today in NYC! ( Hosted by the Secular Humanist Society of NY).

In a world where science faces challenges from creationists and climate change deniers, and where social media is awash with wild conspiracy theories, it is no longer enough for scientists, pundits, and activists to simply ask the public to trust science. Rather, all must better understand how sc...

03/07/2024

“For the final day of this extra long Skepticism Month on AIPT Comics, Michael Compton looks at some skeptical principles that can help us all year long when surveying our current media landscape.”

While conspiracies historically have occurred, the skeptical principals here place the burden of proof at the feet of the conspiracy theorists in our media.