Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Indre Viskontas - The Miracle Detective
Host: Karen Stollznow Indre Viskontas is a neuroscientist, a soprano, ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Indre Viskontas is a neuroscientist, a soprano, and a skeptic. She is a host of the television show The Miracle Detectives that recently aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Indre appeared as the scientific investigator pitted...
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Austin Dacey - Rock the Theocrats
Host: Chris Mooney This coming October, in Kabul, Afghanistan—on a ...
Host: Chris Mooney This coming October, in Kabul, Afghanistan—on a date, and in a location, that remain undisclosed—there will be a rock concert that's billed as the world's "first stealth music festival." It will feature rock, heavy...
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Lee Salisbury - From Faith to Critical Thinking
Host: Robert Price Lee Salisbury was at one time an ...
Host: Robert Price Lee Salisbury was at one time an up-and-coming Charismatic Christian pastor, even a healer! Then how did he wind up actively involved in the ranks of Minnesota Atheists? Often successful Christian activists simply cannot allow...
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Rachel Tabachnick - Exposing Dominionism
Host: Chris Mooney We've heard a lot in the news ...
Host: Chris Mooney We've heard a lot in the news lately about Dominionists—Christians who believe, basically, that they ought to be running this country. Dominionism has different strains. But one is embodied in a group called the New Apostolic...
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John Dodes - The Tooth About Dentistry
Host: Karen Stollznow John Dodes is a dentist with a ...
Host: Karen Stollznow John Dodes is a dentist with a special interest in dentistry and pseudoscience. He is one of the founding fellows of the Institute for Science in Medicine, a former President and Chairperson of the National Council Against Health...
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Scott Atran - Violent Extremism and Sacred Values
Host: Chris Mooney In less than two weeks, the ten ...
Host: Chris Mooney In less than two weeks, the ten year anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil—9/11—will be upon us. In the past decade, there has been much debate and discussion about the root causes of terrorism and...
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Dan Barker - U-Turn on the Road to Damascus
Host: Robert Price Host Robert M. Price felt uncannily as ...
Host: Robert Price Host Robert M. Price felt uncannily as if he were talking to himself when he interviewed Dan Barker, the two share so much in common. But then their story is not so unusual, come to think of it. The same sort of thing seems to be...
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Did Reason Evolve For Arguing? - Hugo Mercier
Host: Chris Mooney Why are human beings simultaneously capable of ...
Host: Chris Mooney Why are human beings simultaneously capable of reasoning, and yet so bad at it? Why do we have such faulty mechanisms as the "confirmation bias" embedded in our brains, and yet at the same time, find ourselves capable of brilliant...
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Donald Prothero - The Psychology of Cryptozoologists
My guest this week is Donald Prothero, Professor of Geology ...
My guest this week is Donald Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College, and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. Don is a distinguished academic; a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the...
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David Frum and Kenneth Silber - Conservatives and Science
Host: Chris Mooney When it comes to the U.S. political ...
Host: Chris Mooney When it comes to the U.S. political right, it often appears that the opposition to science-and reason in general-is everywhere. From climate change denial to anti-evolutionism; from debt ceiling denial to, that's...
