Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Keith Stanovich - Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin
Keith Stanovich holds the Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive ...
Keith Stanovich holds the Canada Research Chair of Applied Cognitive Science at the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto. His research areas include the psychology of reasoning and rationality and the...
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Richard Wiseman - Quirkology
Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, started his working life as ...
Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist, started his working life as a professional magician. He currently holds Britain’s only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. He frequently appears in...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of America's leading spokespersons for ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of America's leading spokespersons for science. The research areas he focuses on are star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In addition to many scholarly...
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Michael Behe - The Edge of Evolution
Michael J. Behe, a central figure in the Intelligent Design ...
Michael J. Behe, a central figure in the Intelligent Design movement, is professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He is the author of Darwin's Black...
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The 11th Annual Houdini Seance at CFI
Harry Houdini, the world-famous magician and escape artist, earnestly explored ...
Harry Houdini, the world-famous magician and escape artist, earnestly explored the religion of spiritualism and communication with the dead after his beloved mother’s death in 1913, even as he later crusaded against those whom he believed were...
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Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought
Steven Pinker, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist, a research psychologist, and ...
Steven Pinker, a renowned cognitive neuroscientist, a research psychologist, and is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two...
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Edward Tabash - Why There Really Is No God
Edward Tabash is a constitutional and civil rights lawyer in ...
Edward Tabash is a constitutional and civil rights lawyer in Beverly Hills, California. Graduating magna cum laude from UCLA in 1973, he graduated from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles three years later and was admitted to the California Bar that same...
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Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes
Barbara Oakley, PhD, has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones ...
Barbara Oakley, PhD, has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones — her writing combines worldwide adventure with solid research expertise. Among other adventures, she has worked as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as...
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Alan Dershowitz - Blasphemy
Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard ...
Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is one of the country's foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of civil liberties. More than a million people have heard him lecture around the world. His...
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Joe Nickell - The New Idolatry
The world's leading paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell is a regular ...
The world's leading paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell is a regular contributor to Skeptical Inquirer science magazine. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Looking for a Miracle, Inquest on the Shroud of Turin, and most...
