From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! What a difference a few weeks can make. Last month in this space, I noted a warning from California Representative Jared Huffman of the Congressional Freethought Caucus, who wrote that the United States is “sleepwalking into theocracy.” Since then, the sleepwalk has turned into a full sprint …

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! Fundamental human rights—especially our right to free expression—don’t typically flourish under theocratic regimes. Science is a powerful tool for stripping theocrats of their power; when people understand the evidence-based explanations for how the world works, they no longer need the religious version. And when they see concrete …

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! The UK’s National Health Service recently released The Cass Review, an independent report intended “to make recommendations on how to improve NHS gender identity services, and ensure that children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or experiencing gender dysphoria receive a high standard of …

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! Confronting the kinds of problems that the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science was created to address—such as the spread of anti-science attitudes and the intrusion of religious beliefs on the rights and freedoms of nonbelievers—requires us to utilize many different tools. Language may be foremost …

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science has always been two-fold. We work to promote scientific literacy and a secular worldview. The stories we’ll look at this month illustrate how and why those two goals are inextricable and why it’s important to employ …

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! As any good skeptic or scientist will tell you, the details always matter. No matter how exciting or alarming or enticing the headline may be, it’s almost inevitably the fine-grain details that matter most. I was reminded of this by two recent stories that we’ll explore in …