Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Robert McCauley - Why Religion is Natural (And Science is Not)
Host: Chris Mooney Over the last decade, there have been ...
Host: Chris Mooney Over the last decade, there have been many calls in the secular community for increased criticism of religion, and increased activism to help loosen its grip on the public. But what if the human brain itself is aligned against that...
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Scott Gavura - Dispensing Skepticism
Host: Karen Stollznow Scott Gavura is a registered pharmacist in ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Scott Gavura is a registered pharmacist in Ontario with a personal and professional interest in improving the way we use medication. Scott started the Science-Based Pharmacy blog in 2009 to scrutinize pharmacy...
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Jonathan Weiler - Authoritarians Versus Reality
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Jonathan Weiler, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Jonathan Weiler, a political scientist and director of global studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Weiler is co-author, with Marc Hetherington of Vanderbilt, of the book Authoritarianism...
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Tom Flynn - The Trouble With Christmas
Host: Robert Price Ebenezer Scrooge once called Christmas "a false ...
Host: Robert Price Ebenezer Scrooge once called Christmas "a false and commercial holiday." Is it? Should Humanists refuse to observe it? Should they wage war on it? Should they celebrate "Sanka" versions of it like Solstice and "HumanLight"?...
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Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)
Host: Chris Mooney Recently in New Orleans, the Committee for ...
Host: Chris Mooney Recently in New Orleans, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry held the very first CSICON—the conference dedicated to scientific inquiry and critical thinking. The main honoree: Bill Nye the Science Guy, who was given CSI's...
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Seth Shostak - ET, Call SETI
Host: Karen Stollznow Dr. Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Dr. Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI). Seth is the author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and is well...
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Jonathan Moreno - Our New Biopolitics
Host: Chris Mooney Human cloning. Synthetic biology. Mood (and mind) ...
Host: Chris Mooney Human cloning. Synthetic biology. Mood (and mind) altering drugs. Personalized medicine. Such topics are rarely at the top of the political agenda. Yet the changes they're causing, often below the radar, are monumental. Issues of...
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Richard C. Johnson - Religion: The Failed Narrative
Host: Robert Price Richard C. Johnson Ph.D. is a retired ...
Host: Robert Price Richard C. Johnson Ph.D. is a retired chemist and serves as Treasurer for Freethought Arizona. For some 25 years, the company he founded worked with scientists and researchers in chemical analysis. Through family ties, Richard had...
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Shawn Otto - The Assault on Science
Host: Chris Mooney In recent months, political attacks on science ...
Host: Chris Mooney In recent months, political attacks on science have been back in the news. Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman even famously tweeted, "To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call...
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CSICon - The Conference Dedicated To Scientific Inquiry And Critical Thinking
Host: Adam Isaak This October-on Halloween weekend-the Committee for Skeptical ...
Host: Adam Isaak This October-on Halloween weekend-the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is holding a conference: CSICon. It's the latest in a line of CSI skeptics' conferences going back to what is likely the first skeptics' conference ever held,...
