In 1980, in response to the conservative religious movement the Moral Majority, Professor Kurtz founded the journal Free Inquiry.
The reason, he speculated in the magazine he founded and edited, Free Inquiry, was that the "frenzy" of US culture and daily life had caused people to latch on to religious and paranormal views as a compensation for their chaotic lives.
"One reason could be that there is material which would show that the Chilcot inquiry was not founded on 'independence' and impartiality.
Kurtz exposed dozens of fraudulent healers, tricksters, shamans and mystagogues through the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (later known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry), which he founded in 1976.
First, there is the tradition of inquiry into nature founded by the Milesians, and carried on by Xenophanes (Mourelatos 2008b) and by Heraclitus (recent discussion in Graham 2008).
Regardless, scientific inquiry is not founded on the possibility of bias but on proposing an explicit theory for a particular study.
But that claim was based on the prewar assessment of British intelligence, which a British government inquiry later called "well founded".
Though The New Inquiry's editor, Rachel Rosenfelt, founded it with two friends in 2009, it has become itself only in the last two years.
"Wikipedia is founded on the freedoms of expression, inquiry, and information.
Activists used legislation and appropriations processes to direct scientific inquiry and, in Massachusetts, founded the Silent Spring Institute as a scientific team with activist participation in governance.
Now, the government of Bangladesh has ordered a wide-ranging inquiry into the microfinance institution he founded 34 years ago, Grameen Bank, after a Norwegian documentary accused him of mishandling donors' money.
