Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Kerry Emanuel - Conservative for Climate Science
Kerry Emanuel is a leading atmospheric scientist and a self-described ...
Kerry Emanuel is a leading atmospheric scientist and a self-described conservative. As a result, lately he's been at the forefront of trying to convince his ideological brethren that the science behind global warming is real. We invited Emanuel on to...
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David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation
Host: Chris Mooney Can people who care about secularism take ...
Host: Chris Mooney Can people who care about secularism take America back from the religious right? Of all the questions that concern us on this show, this is perhaps the most important, the most central, of all. And David Niose has an answer to it....
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Tina Dupuy - Skepticism Meets Comedy
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest is Tina Dupuy—the reporter, comedian, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest is Tina Dupuy—the reporter, comedian, skeptic, and editor-in-chief of the startup publication SoapBlox. Dupuy appears frequently on MSNBC, Current TV, RT and the BBC and on numerous radio shows. She has written for...
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Special In Studio Episode: Jamie Kilstein, Ed Brayton, and More
Host: Chris Mooney For this episode of Point of Inquiry, ...
Host: Chris Mooney For this episode of Point of Inquiry, we tried something a little different. At Center for Inquiry headquarters in Amherst, NY, we filmed a special hour long program with multiple in-studio guests, including the famed...
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Stuart Firestein - How Ignorance Drives Science
Host: Indre Viskontas The idea that science moves forward by ...
Host: Indre Viskontas The idea that science moves forward by carefully peeling back layers of the onion of truth, one by one, in a deliberate fashion, is so prevalent that it borders on cliche. But the truth is that running scientific experiments...
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Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Chris Hayes, ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes and editor at large of The Nation. Hayes has come out with a much anticipated new book that makes a surprising argument. It's called Twilight of the...
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Cara Santa Maria - Talk Nerdy to Us
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Cara Santa ...
Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Cara Santa Maria, the senior science correspondent for the Huffington Post and the personage behind its "Talk Nerdy to Me" video series. Recent topics range from cannibalism, to the non-power of positive...
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Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion
Host: Chris Mooney In late April, a study came out ...
Host: Chris Mooney In late April, a study came out in Science that really got the secular blogosphere hopping. It was a paper showing that something we've long suspected may be true—less critical thinking is associated with more...
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Christof Koch - Consciousness and Free Will
Host: Indre Viskontas Recently, there has been a flurry of ...
Host: Indre Viskontas Recently, there has been a flurry of neuroscientists declaring that free will is an illusion in the popular press. But before we can assess the extent to which we are zombies, we need to first tackle the question of what,...
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Johan Braeckman - The Rise of Islamic Creationism
Host: Chris Mooney Over the weekend, I was fortunate enough ...
Host: Chris Mooney Over the weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend the 2012 World Skeptics Conference in Berlin. It's important to keep tabs on our skeptical and freethinking colleagues around the world, and the challenges they're facing. And in...
