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Special Café Inquiry (AT THE RETREAT) – Measles. It’s Back.
July 12, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
***This month’s special Café Inquiry will meet at the SECULAR SUMMER RETREAT on SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025***
You can join us just for Café Inquiry (no entry fee for the meeting only) or you can join us for the day! Get your Saturday Day Pass for the Secular Summer Retreat here.
There’s been a lot of news lately about de-extinction – mammoths, dire wolves, and what have you. Back at the turn of the century, measles was extinct in the United States; but thanks to the tireless efforts of antivaxxers and other purveyors of misinformation, it’s back!!! Yay? No. At our special Café Inquiry at the Retreat we’re going to take an in depth, science-based look at measles – symptoms, transmissibility, complications, treatment, and how to prevent it (hint – it’s NOT by taking Vitamin A). This article from the New York Times shares some personal stories from the current outbreak. This Washington Post article talks about the risk of catching measles while traveling. Hope you can make it to this year’s Secular Summer Retreat! See you there! Note – This will be the only in person Café Inquiry event for July. We will not be meeting on July 13.
Café Inquiry starts with a short introduction of the day’s topic, followed by casual discussion.
Attendees are able to future propose topics which would align with Michigan Humanist’s purpose: from atheism, agnosticism, humanism, secularism, and freethinking to broader subjects in science and humanities, such as religion, philosophy, social issues, politics, evolution, morality, ethics, and psychology.
Café Inquiry (Grand Rapids) meets each month IN PERSON on the second Sunday and ONLINE on the fourth Sunday (except for July).
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