Awards
First presented in 2003, this annual award has been exclusively awarded by CFI since 2019, and has been given to Bill Nye, Ricky Gervais, Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher and many significant figures in science and secularism.
What is the Richard Dawkins Award?
This is the hotel that CSICon 2024 will be held at.
The Horseshoe, Las Vegas
The Center for Inquiry merged with this organization in 2016.
What is the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science?
A common bar meetup for skeptical thinkers.
What is "Skeptics in the Pub"? (will also accept "Drinking Skeptically".
Name of the famous lake monster of Loch Ness, Scotland.
What is Nessie?
This $2,500 award is given to the “creator of the published work that best exemplifies healthy skepticism, logical analysis or empirical science”. Some notable winners include Steven Novella, Susan Gerbic, and Kendrick Frazier.
What is the Balles Prize?
What is New Orleans, Louisiana.
This is CFI's thrice-weekly roundup of news and headlines "for the reality based community".
What is "The Morning Heresy"?
This CFI branch founded and operates a humanist orphanage.
What is CFI Kenya?
The Patterson-Gimlin film is an American short motion picture of an unidentified subject that has been claimed to be this iconic mythical creature.
What is Bigfoot? (or Sasquatch)
Established in 1987, this award honors individuals who make the greatest contributions to the advancement of humanism and has been awarded to Dan Dennett, Susan Jacoby, and Kurt Andersen, among others.
What is the Forkosch Award?
This is the year the first CSICOP conference was held at the SUNY Buffalo Campus.
What is 1983?
In 1991, CFI opened a museum honoring the birthplace of this American lawyer, writer and orator known as “the Great Agnostic”.
Who is Robert Green Ingersoll?
This is the name of the bi-weekly newsletter published specifically for branch and affiliate leadership.
What is "Pass the Torch"?
A humanoid creature reportedly seen in the Point Pleasant area of West Virginia in the 1960s, popularized by a 1975 book written by John Keel.
Winner of the 2011 “In Praise of Reason” Award and popular science communicator known for his dedication to “saving the world”.
Who is Bill Nye?
This conference was held to celebrate the 20th anniversary of CSICOP in 1996 and was themed “Science in the Age of (Mis)Information”.
What is the World Skeptics Conference?
This program trains and certifies individuals to perform non-religious weddings, commitment ceremonies, funerals and other milestones of life.
What is Secular Celebrants?
CFI Branches and Affiliates can find lecturers to invite to their events by utilizing this database on the CFI website.
What is the CFI Speakers Bureau?
What is the Chupacabra?
Starting in 1984, this award sought to acknowledge and encourage fair and balanced reporting of paranormal claims.
What is the Responsibility in Journalism Award?
What is "Reason for Change"?
This program was founded by James Christopher in 1985 as an alternative to the twelve-step recovery program.
What is Secular Organizations for Sobriety? (SOS)
CFI Indiana hosts this weekly meetup for their multi-lingual constituents to practice speaking.
What is "English as as New Language"?
A winged, bipedal horse said to inhabit the forest sof the Pine Barrens in South Jersey.
What is the Jersey Devil?