Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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John Shook - The God Debates
Host: Robert Price Our guest is philosopher and author John ...
Host: Robert Price Our guest is philosopher and author John Shook, discussing his experiences debating religious believers and whether such debates are a good idea. Some say no, that such spectacles merely serve believers by making it look like...
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PZ Myers, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Chris Mooney - New Atheism or Accommodation?
Recently at the 30th anniversary conference of the Council for ...
Recently at the 30th anniversary conference of the Council for Secular Humanism in Los Angeles, leading science blogger PZ Myers and Point of Inquiry host Chris Mooney appeared together on a panel to discuss the questions, "How should secular...
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Steve Spangler - Hands-on Science
Host: Karen Stollznow Steve Spangler is a science educator, inventor, ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Steve Spangler is a science educator, inventor, and an Emmy Award winning TV personality. He is the author of Fizz Factor: 50 Amazing Experiments With Soda Pop, Secret Science: 25 Science Experiments Your Teacher Doesn't Know...
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Jennifer Ouellette - Calculus, Las Vegas, and the Zombie Apocalypse
Host: Chris Mooney Ever wonder about the mathematical basis for ...
Host: Chris Mooney Ever wonder about the mathematical basis for battling a zombie infestation? Jennifer Ouellette has. In her new book The Calculus Diaries, the English major turned science journalist goes on an odyssey to relearn the branch of math...
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Jen Roth - Atheist Against Abortion
Host: Robert Price In this episode of Point of Inquiry, ...
Host: Robert Price In this episode of Point of Inquiry, Robert Price interviews Jen Roth, co-founder of All Our Lives, a secular organization committed to advocating for women's right to exercise freedom of conscience in making voluntary, nonviolent,...
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S. Jay Olshansky - Can Science Extend Human Life?
Host: Chris Mooney At a recent conference in Lake Tahoe, ...
Host: Chris Mooney At a recent conference in Lake Tahoe, demographer S. Jay Olshansky presented a roomful of technologists with an exciting prospect. Through a concerted scientific attack on the problem of aging, he suggested, we might be able to...
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Brian Brushwood - Scams, Swindles and Skepticism
Host: Karen Stollznow Brian Brushwood began his career in magic ...
Host: Karen Stollznow Brian Brushwood began his career in magic "To get free drinks at bars and impress friends," but ended up becoming a science communicator and skeptic. The author of Cheats, Cons, Swindles & Tricks: 57 Ways to Scam a Free...
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Richard Wrangham - Rediscovering Fire
This is a show about evolution—but not, for once, about ...
This is a show about evolution—but not, for once, about the evolution wars. Instead, it concerns one of the most intriguing ideas to emerge in quite some time about the evolution of humans. In his much discussed book Catching Fire: How Cooking...
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Robert M. Price - Is the Bible Mein Kampf?
Robert Price being off for the week, today we present ...
Robert Price being off for the week, today we present a lecture given by Dr. Price at the Center for Inquiry's annual Student Leadership Conferece titled "Is the Bible Mein Kampf?" In his talk, Price suggests the Bible has much to offer even the...
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Alexander Zaitchik - Glenn Beck’s War on Reason
This week, the scope of Point of Inquiry expands to ...
This week, the scope of Point of Inquiry expands to include politics and more particularly, the fount of misinformation that is Glenn Beck of Fox News. This TV and radio personality is ushering in a new reign of ignorance in our national...
