Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Bill McKibben - Do the Math
Host: Chris Mooney When we last had Bill McKibben on ...
Host: Chris Mooney When we last had Bill McKibben on this show in 2010, I was mainly treating him as another bestselling science author—one who happens to focus on climate change. Well. Something kinda big happened in the intervening...
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Samuel Arbesman - The Half-Life of Facts
Host: Indre Viskontas Because we live in an uncertain world, ...
Host: Indre Viskontas Because we live in an uncertain world, we arm ourselves with facts to gain a sense of control and therefore some modicum of comfort. We know that the sun will rise tomorrow even though it disappears tonight. But what happens when...
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Steven Novella - Exposing Medical Nonsense
Host: Chris Mooney One of the first people I ever ...
Host: Chris Mooney One of the first people I ever got to know in skepticism was Steven Novella. He was a professor at Yale, just starting out as an organized skeptic—I was a student, just getting fired up about the same stuff. Since then, Steve...
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Michael Gordin - The Pseudoscience Wars
Host: Chris Mooney Before the "complementary and alternative medicine" fad, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Before the "complementary and alternative medicine" fad, and before UFO craze, lived a man whom you might call the first modern pseudoscientist. His name was Immanuel Velikovsky. He had a strange theory about a comet—that...
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Jacques Berlinerblau - How to Be Secular
Host: Chris Mooney On this show, we often debate the ...
Host: Chris Mooney On this show, we often debate the state of American secularism—covering topics like the rise of the so-called "nones," or the unending battle to rescue the country from the pernicious influence of Christian right. Our guest...
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Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations
Host: Indre Viskotnas Despite our individual differences, highlighted especially during ...
Host: Indre Viskotnas Despite our individual differences, highlighted especially during an election, much of what we see, hear, smell or feel is shareable: that is, when standing in front of an object, we can more or less agree that it has a...
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Special Double Episode: Jon Ronson and Richard Wiseman, with Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney
Hosts: Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney At the 2012 CSICON ...
Hosts: Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney At the 2012 CSICON conference in Nashville, Tennessee, your Point of Inquiry hosts Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney finally actually found themselves in the same place. The result was a show that features both...
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Bruce Hood - Superstitions in Baseball
Host: Indre Viskontas The month of October is associated with ...
Host: Indre Viskontas The month of October is associated with falling leaves, autumn winds and hallowe'en. But for sports fans in the US, it also signals a high point in America's national pastime: baseball's postseason. After a long run of 162 games,...
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Science and the 2012 Election - Shawn Otto and Matthew Chapman
Host: Chris Mooney In this show, we talk to two ...
Host: Chris Mooney In this show, we talk to two founders of ScienceDebate, a nonprofit organization that in the last two election cycles has pushed to get the presidential candidates to talk about and debate science policy. So far, there has been no...
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Lisa Randall - Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Lisa Randall, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Lisa Randall, the Harvard theoretical physicist and one of the most heavily cited and influential researchers in her field. She's a member of a number of distinguished scientific societies, including the...
