{"id":13906,"date":"2023-03-22T20:54:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T20:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:01:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:01:13","slug":"2023-03-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-03-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Pseudoscience and the Law: Why Doesn&#8217;t the Government Stop the Charlatans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/humanists.org_2023_03_26_nick_little.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13908\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Nicholas Little<\/h3>\n<p><strong>11 a.m., March 26, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join the Humanist Forum, in person OR on Zoom.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday we are happy to have Nicholas Little, the vice president, general counsel, and legal director of the Center for Inquiry, with us on Zoom to discuss &#8220;Pseudoscience and the Law: Why Doesn&#8217;t the Government Stop the Charlatans?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/813354518?h==b19a571a7c\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/813354518\">23\/03\/26 Nicholas Little<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>You can attend our forums in person with fellow humanists in the Maple Room of the Mountain View Community Center at 201 S Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View. Lunch will be served after the forum. We request a $10 donation for lunch.<br>\nIf you attend in person, COVID protocols will be followed. Vaccinations and masks will be required. If you have symptoms that may be COVID, kindly attend on Zoom (see below).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will continue to present our forums on Zoom. To join and be able to ask questions and make comments, click <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/81653890712?pwd=QzN4MTVNbGEwQ0Zua3d1VG9tVE50UT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>No password is needed &#8212; our host will admit you from the waiting room. Joining the meeting via the link will download and install the Zoom app on your desktop computer (if it&#8217;s not already installed), and then take you to the meeting. You can also install the Zoom app on your computer or smart phone, and then enter:<br>Meeting ID: 816 5389 0712<br>Passcode: 250634<\/p>\n<p>You can also call any of the following phone numbers and then enter the above Meeting ID and the Passcode in order to join the meeting by phone.<br>+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)<br>+1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose)<br>+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)<br>+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)<br>+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)<br>+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)<br>+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)<br>You can find international phone numbers to call <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/u\/afYkAuvE6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>RSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/292412449\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Like us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\/status\/1638642340800925697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>See videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<br>Add this event to your Google Calendar<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/event?action=TEMPLATE&amp;tmeid=MTMxM2Q1bGx2dm1qcXFnc3VvOHN1ZnRnb24gOGhnajVqYmVndXZjb2RuMDlvYTU5azFwOTBAZw&amp;tmsrc=8hgj5jbeguvcodn09oa59k1p90%40group.calendar.google.com\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/images\/ext\/gc_button1_en.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Little 11 a.m., March 26, 2023 Join the Humanist Forum, in person OR on Zoom. This Sunday we are happy to have Nicholas Little, the vice president, general counsel, and legal director of the Center for Inquiry, with us on Zoom to discuss &#8220;Pseudoscience and the Law: Why Doesn&#8217;t the Government Stop the Charlatans?&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2023-03-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pseudoscience and the Law: Why Doesn&#8217;t the Government Stop the Charlatans?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13922,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13906\/revisions\/13922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}