Point of Inquiry
Science, Skepticism, Rationalism, Humanism -- The Podcast and Radio Show of the Center for Inquiry
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Daniel Dennett - Tools for Thinking
Host: Indre Viskontas Having spent 50 years as an influential ...
Host: Indre Viskontas Having spent 50 years as an influential thinker, Daniel Dennett has earned the right to tell us how to think. His latest book is a collection of 77 tools for thinking, which every self-respecting critical thinker should consider,...
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Stephan Lewandowsky - The Mind of the Conspiracy Theorist
Host: Chris Mooney From 9-11, to the death of Osama ...
Host: Chris Mooney From 9-11, to the death of Osama bin Laden, to the Boston Bombings, there's been a consistently bizarre and troubling reaction by some members of the public. We're referring to the people—a minority, to be sure, but a...
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Katha Pollitt - Is Religion Inherently Sexist?
Host: Chris Mooney Over the weekend, the Center for Inquiry's ...
Host: Chris Mooney Over the weekend, the Center for Inquiry's Women in Secularism II conference unfolded in Washington, D.C.—and we caught up with one of the event's most distinguished speakers, the feminist poet and author Katha...
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Michael Levi - Fracking, Pipelines, and Science
Host: Chris Mooney A few months back on this show, ...
Host: Chris Mooney A few months back on this show, we heard from Bill McKibben, the celebrated environmental writer and, more recently, leader of a mass movement around preventing climate change that has focused on blocking the Keystone XL...
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Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday
Note: You can watch this episode on Youtube. In this special ...
Note: You can watch this episode on Youtube. In this special episode of Point of Inquiry, Chris and Indre speak with the Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel. Dr. Diamond is Professor of Geography at the...
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Mary Roach - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Host: Indre Viskontas In the science section at your local ...
Host: Indre Viskontas In the science section at your local bookstore, you'll find plenty of books on everything from the brain, to the climate, to the cosmos. But how many books will you find that take you on a tour of the digestive tract—from...
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Scott Atran - What Makes a Terrorist?
Host: Chris Mooney Back in the summer of 2011—just before ...
Host: Chris Mooney Back in the summer of 2011—just before the 10 year anniversary of 9/11—this show welcomed on Scott Atran, an anthropologist who is a leading expert on terrorism and violent extremism. Now, in the wake of the Boston...
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Neil Gross - Why Are Professors (and Scientists) So Liberal?
Host: Chris Mooney We've all heard the claim: Academia is ...
Host: Chris Mooney We've all heard the claim: Academia is liberal. And it indoctrinates students. It kills their religious faith and basically—or at least, so the allegation goes—transforms them into unkempt, pot-smoking hippies. As it...
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A.C. Grayling - The God Argument
Host: Chris Mooney Remember all the greatest hits of religious ...
Host: Chris Mooney Remember all the greatest hits of religious apologists—the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments for God's existence? You may have learned how to refute them in college—but not, perhaps, with the zest and...
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Frans de Waal - The Bonobo and the Atheist
Host: Chris Mooney You hear it a lot from religious ...
Host: Chris Mooney You hear it a lot from religious believers: Faith is about doing good works, bringing about good in the world, and showing compassion. In fact, some go further and argue that you can't really be moral without religion. Well, says...
