Americans United for Separation of Church and State
I didn't know about these fellows before someone posted the link during a discussion. It's nice to see someone fighting for reason in the face of the current wave of ignorance wedging its way into the political sphere of our societies.

James Randi Educational Foundation
James Randi, a front man in the battle against pseudo-science, fraud and nonsense. He has a past as a magician and escape artist, and uses this knowledge to debunk tricksters and charlatans, in much the same way that Harry Houdini did back in his day (humiliating the surprisingly naive Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the process, no less). Be sure to read the weekly commentary - hilarity will ensue.

Finally, I've just had the pleasure of watching a documentary by Richard Dawkins called The Root of All Evil?. Here he tries to make clear the threat that religion poses to the things we take for granted, like freedom of speech, basic education and democracy. It is admirable that notable scientists are waking up and drawing the line. Also, he's a bright, like myself, like you could be (it is simply a group of people declaring that we have a naturalistic world view).

Finally let me just throw in a couple of interesting quotes for good measure.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
  - George Bernard Shaw

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
  - 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side (Albert Einstein, Banesh Hoffman (Editor), Helen Dukas (Editor))

For science!

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