Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Science Denialism with Donald Prothero
Our guest this week is Donald Prothero, paleontologist, geologist, and ...
Our guest this week is Donald Prothero, paleontologist, geologist, and author of the new book Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten our Future. He's an expert on the effect of past climate change on the fossil record, as well as the...
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Talking Nerdy (And Ethically) with Cara Santa Maria
Our guest this week is Cara Santa Maria, contributor to ...
Our guest this week is Cara Santa Maria, contributor to Al Jazeera America's science show TechKnow, and the host of the podcast Talk Nerdy. This neuroscientist, science educator, producer, writer, and television personality has brought her...
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Coming Out Atheist - Greta Christina
This week Point of Inquiry welcomes the well-known atheist blogger, ...
This week Point of Inquiry welcomes the well-known atheist blogger, speaker, and author Greta Christina to talk about her new book, Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other and Why, a no nonsense guide to leveling...
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A Trek Through Skepticism with The Amazing Randi
This week, Point of Inquiry is excited to welcome “The ...
This week, Point of Inquiry is excited to welcome “The Amazing” James Randi: famed magician a godfather (as it were) of the modern reason movement, and founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation. Randi is the subject of a new...
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Living with a Wild God: Barbara Ehrenreich, Atheism, and Transcendence
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Barbara Ehrenreich, award-winning columnist ...
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Barbara Ehrenreich, award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, she went undercover as a minimum wage worker and in Bright-Sided: How Positive...
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Ann Druyan: Telling the Story of the Cosmos
This week, Point of Inquiry is delighted to welcome Ann ...
This week, Point of Inquiry is delighted to welcome Ann Druyan, co-writer and co-creator of both the original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, starring her late husband Carl Sagan, as well as the new series, Cosmos: A Spacetime...
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Investigating the Oldest Profession: Prostitution and Science Meet, with Meredith Dank of the Urban Institute
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Meredith Dank, PhD, Senior ...
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Meredith Dank, PhD, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute. Dank is the co-principal investigator on several international and domestic human trafficking projects, including the new study, "Estimating the...
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Frank Schaeffer on Escaping Fundamentalism, and the Death of Fred Phelps
Following the death of the Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps, ...
Following the death of the Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps, Josh Zepps discusses the state of religious fundamentalism with Frank Schaeffer, the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy for God: How I grew up as one of the...
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Cancer Quack Stanislaw Burzynski: Exposed
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes David Gorski, MD, PhD: ...
This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes David Gorski, MD, PhD: cancer researcher, surgeon, and managing editor of the Science-Based Medicine blog, aka "Orac" of Respectful Insolence. Gorski and Beyerstein...
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The Philosophy of Belief with Rebecca Goldstein
Rebecca Goldstein, a professor of philosophy and the author of ...
Rebecca Goldstein, a professor of philosophy and the author of five novels and a collection of short stories, joins us on Point of Inquiry to discuss atheism, philosophy and her new book, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy...
