41 relations: Allah, Atheist Bus Campaign, Atlanta, Avijit Roy, Bigfoot, Calgary, Canadians, Carl Sagan, CBC News, Center for Inquiry, Chiropractic, Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Discourse, Dragon Con, Evidence-based practice, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Health, Homeopathy, Jesus, Justin Trottier, Marcello Truzzi, Marketplace (TV series), Medicine, Metaphysics, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Montreal, National Post, Ontario, Ottawa, Paranormal, Polaris (convention), Saskatoon, Science, Skeptical movement, Technology, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Toronto Star, University of Toronto, Vancouver, 10:23 Campaign.
Allah
Allah (translit) is the Arabic word for God in Abrahamic religions.
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Atheist Bus Campaign
The Atheist Bus Campaign aimed to place "peaceful and upbeat" messages about atheism on transport media in Britain, in response to evangelical Christian advertising.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Avijit Roy
Avijit Roy (অভিজিৎ রায়; 12 September 1972 – 26 February 2015) was a Bangladeshi-American online activist, writer and blogger known for creating and administrating the Mukto-Mona, an Internet community for freethinkers, rationalists, skeptics, atheists and humanists of mainly Bengali and other South Asian descent.
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Bigfoot
In North American folklore, Bigfoot or Sasquatch is a hairy, upright-walking,ape-like being who reportedly dwells in the wilderness and leaves behind large footprints.
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Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Canadian province of Alberta.
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Canadians
Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
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CBC News
CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.
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Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a nonprofit educational organization.
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Chiropractic
Chiropractic is a form of alternative medicine mostly concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mechanical disorders of the musculoskeletal system, especially the spine.
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Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), is a program within the transnational American non-profit educational organization Center for Inquiry (CFI), which seeks to "promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims." Paul Kurtz proposed the establishment of CSICOP in 1976 as an independent non-profit organization (before merging with CFI as one of its programs in 2015), to counter what he regarded as an uncritical acceptance of, and support for, paranormal claims by both the media and society in general.
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Discourse
Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications.
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Dragon Con
Dragon Con (previously Dragon*Con and sometimes DragonCon) is a North American multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place annually over the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Evidence-based practice
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is an interdisciplinary approach to clinical practice that has been gaining ground following its formal introduction in 1992.
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Halifax, Nova Scotia
Halifax, officially known as the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), is the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
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Health
Health is the ability of a biological system to acquire, convert, allocate, distribute, and utilize energy with maximum efficiency.
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Homeopathy
Homeopathy or homœopathy is a system of alternative medicine developed in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people.
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Jesus
Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
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Justin Trottier
Justin Trottier (born December 4, 1982) is an English-Canadian writer, non-profit executive director and former political candidate.
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Marcello Truzzi
Marcello Truzzi (September 6, 1935 – February 2, 2003) was a professor of sociology at New College of Florida and later at Eastern Michigan University, founding co-chairman of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), a founder of the Society for Scientific Exploration, and director for the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research.
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Marketplace (TV series)
CBC Marketplace is an award-winning Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television since 1972.
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Medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of being, existence, and reality.
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Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is the Government of Ontario ministry responsible for administering the health care system and providing services to the province of Ontario.
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Montreal
Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.
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National Post
The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.
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Ontario
Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.
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Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
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Paranormal
Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.
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Polaris (convention)
Polaris (formerly Toronto Trek) was an annual science fiction and fantasy convention held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.
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Saskatoon
Saskatoon is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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Science
R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.
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Skeptical movement
The skeptical movement (also spelled sceptical) is a modern social movement based on the idea of scientific skepticism (also called rational skepticism).
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Technology
Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".
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The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper.
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.
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Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.
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10:23 Campaign
The 10:23 Campaign is an awareness and protest campaign against homoeopathy organised by the Merseyside Skeptics Society, a non-profit organisation, to oppose the sale of homoeopathic products in the United Kingdom.
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CFI Canada, Center for Inquiry Canada, Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Inquiry_Canada