Café Inquiry At The Retreat - Measles. It's Back.

***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). We’ll post some links to background materials here before the event. 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.

Café Inquiry IN PERSON You will find more information about the topic of discussion here a few days before the meeting. Hope to see you there!

This event is free and open to the public. Donations appreciated, but not expected.

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.

Parking information – Street parking, if you can find it, is free on Sunday. The nearby GRCC Parking structure is free until 3 PM on Sunday, although this is not advertised. You will need to take a ticket to enter the structure but the exit gate will be open if you leave before 3 PM. Parking is also available free for up to 2 hours in the Public Library lot for patrons. You will need to have your ticket validated in the library. If walking for any distance is a problem for you, please contact us and we’ll see what can be arranged.

Café Inquiry (Grand Rapids) meets each month IN PERSON on the second Sunday and ONLINE on the fourth Sunday.

Contact: Frank Crownover or Jessica Wolin, cafeinquiry-grandrapids@michiganhumanists.org, (617) 645-0713

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Michigan Humanists values the participation of all guests — requests for reasonable accommodation may be made by contacting the event host at least three days prior to the event.

Michigan Humanists expects all guests to engage in respectful discussion. Please visit the Michigan Humanist Culture and Expectations page for more information. Speak to the event host or contact info@michiganhumanists.org if you feel these expectations are being violated.

Events are made possible by your financial support. Michigan Humanists is a 501(c)3 non-profit. All donations are tax-deductible as provided by law. Donations to Michigan Humanists can be made at https://www.michiganhumanists.org/donate/

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Do not worry if you are the only person listed as attending on Meetup. We promote events on several platforms, and we do not require RSVPs. There will be others there!