Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Frank Zindler - The Christ Myth
Host: Robert Price One of the most effective (not to ...
Host: Robert Price One of the most effective (not to mention hilarious) speakers for atheism and secular humanism today is Frank Zindler, author, linguist, translator, Bible scholar, and scientist—truly a Renaissance Man. He is an advocate as...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week needs little introduction—he ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week needs little introduction—he may be our most famous public communicator of science. He's Neil DeGrasse Tyson, renowned American astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of...
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Michael Cicchini - Myths, Misconceptions, and the Law
Host: Karen Stollznow Michael Cicchini is a criminal defense attorney ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Michael Cicchini is a criminal defense attorney and a skeptic. Through extensive research and writing in the field of criminal law he has advocated for defendants' rights. Super Lawyers and Milwaukee Magazine have named him among...
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Dan Kahan - The American Culture War of Fact
Host: Chris Mooney Why do Americans claim to love science, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Why do Americans claim to love science, but then selectively reject its findings when they're inconvenient? And why do some cultural groups reject certain types of scientific findings (about, say, harm to the environment), whereas...
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Don Webb - Devil's Advocate
Host: Robert Price The nineties witnessed an outbreak of "Satanic ...
Host: Robert Price The nineties witnessed an outbreak of "Satanic Panic," with psychologists dredging up false memories of "Satanic ritual abuse" which landed innocent parents in jail and banked the fires of hysteria. It seemed the Salem Witch Trials...
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Art Caplan - Bioethics Comes of Age
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Arthur Caplan, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Arthur Caplan, sometimes called the country's "most quoted bioethicist" and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. In this wide ranging episode, Caplan discusses not only the...
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Joe Nickell - The Other Side
Host: Karen Stollznow Joe Nickell is one of the world's ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Joe Nickell is one of the world's most prominent skeptical investigators of the paranormal. He has researched numerous historical, paranormal, and forensic mysteries, myths and hoaxes, including hauntings, crop circles, UFOs,...
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The Irrationality Vaccine - Seth Mnookin
Host: Chris Mooney Recently the British Medical Journal dealt yet ...
Host: Chris Mooney Recently the British Medical Journal dealt yet another blow to 1998 scientific study that first terrified the public about the possibility that vaccines might cause autism. The paper, the Journal alleged, was nothing less than...
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Hector Avalos - The End of Biblical Studies
Host: Robert Price Robert Price interviews fellow Bible Geek and ...
Host: Robert Price Robert Price interviews fellow Bible Geek and secular Bible scholar Hector Avalos on a wide range of topics, from the increasingly devotional character of the Society of Biblical Literature to law enforcement in the Bible...
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Barry Kosmin - One Nation, Losing God
Host: Chris Mooney By now you've probably heard the finding-the ...
Host: Chris Mooney By now you've probably heard the finding-the United States is growing less godly. More precisely, more and more Americans in surveys report that they lack a religious identity. These are the so-called "nones," and they already...
