Past Events

Please join CFI for Drinking Skeptically DC on Wednesday evening, 6:30 PM, at MACKEY'S PUBLIC HOUSE, 1306 G Street NW, Washington DC. We will be downstairs. Please look for the 'CFI' sign on the table or ask the host for the 'Drinking Skeptically - Center for Inquiry' group. See you there! We usually meet on the SECOND WEDNESDAY of each month at Mackeys Public House, 1306 G Street NW, Washington DC, which is half a block from Metro Center, 13th…

***MUST RSVP TO ATTEND: http://sks.to/CFIDCTalk*** Fake News. President Trump repeats the mantra regularly and uses it as a weapon against the media. It seems like it's everywhere these days. Social media inundates us with information 24/7 and we only have so much time in the day to check the information we're getting so what do we do? John Cook is going to explain how to apply skepticism in a way that'll help you cut through the noise and save you…

This month's discussion topic is: immigration. The United States is a nation of immigrants. Almost everyone living in the U.S. is descended from people who hopped in a ship or plane and came here for a better life. In some ways we have exulted in this identity, and celebrated the ingenuity, drive, and ambition of immigrants. The plaque at the base of the statute of liberty, for example, states "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to…