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Das Center For Inquiry interviewt bekannte Skeptiker wie Richard Dawkins und James Randi.

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323) Naomi Oreskes - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming

Host: Chris Mooney This week at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a conference convened entitled "Science Writing in the Age of Denial." The keynote speaker was a former Point of Inquiry guest and a very popular one—Naomi Oreskes, co-author of the influential book Merchants of Doubt: How a ...

Datum: 24.04.2012 23:45 • Größe: 16.2 MB

322) Austin Dacey - The Future of Blasphemy

Host: Chris Mooney This week, our guest is a return one: Austin Dacey. He's a philosopher, a writer, and a human rights activist, and the creator of the Impossible Music Sessions, which we featured in a past show. Austin's books include The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public ...

Datum: 16.04.2012 21:34 • Größe: 19.2 MB

321) Chris Mooney - The Republican Brain

Guest Host: John Shook In this special episode of Point of Inquiry, we interview our host himself—about his new book, The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing...

Datum: 10.04.2012 00:09 • Größe: 23 MB

320) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles

Host: Chris Mooney This week, Point of Inquiry is thrilled to welcome back one of our most popular guests: Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famed astrophysicist and Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Last time we had him on, Dr. Tyson engaged in a wide ranging discus...

Datum: 02.04.2012 20:11 • Größe: 17.4 MB

319) David Morrison - Cosmic Impact Hazard

Host: Indre Viskontas The end is nigh. 2012 is a banner year for doomsday prophecies, though there still seems to be debate concerning precisely how life as we know it will be snuffed out. Hollywood seems to prefer the 'death from the skies' scenario, with Lars von Trier's latest film Melancholia ex...

Datum: 26.03.2012 23:19 • Größe: 16.6 MB

318) Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind

Host: Chris Mooney Why is it that some of us are religious, some of us not... some of us liberal, some of us not? If you've been paying attention, then by now you might have noticed that this doesn't really have a lot to do with the intellectual validity of religious, or irreligious, or liberal, or ...

Datum: 19.03.2012 21:25 • Größe: 17.7 MB

317) Ari Rabin-Havt - The Fox Effect

Host: Chris Mooney If there's one thing Point of Inquiry is concerned about, it's ensuring a rational, sensible conversation in politics, in public life. And you simply can't have such a conversation if the culture is awash in political, and politicized, misinformation. What do we mean by "misi...

Datum: 12.03.2012 19:51 • Größe: 14.4 MB

316) Sean Faircloth - Attack of the Theocrats

Host: Chris Mooney A common goal of freethinkers, humanists, skeptics, and atheists is to preserve Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation" between church and state. But we haven't always been successful in this area—help from the courts notwithstanding—or at beating back the steady advan...

Datum: 06.03.2012 15:57 • Größe: 16.1 MB

315) Gerald Woerlee and Susan Blackmore - Near-Death Experiences and Consciousness

Host: Indre Viskontas One of the costs of being conscious is that, once in a while, we are forced to contemplate the fact that we are mortal. Ironically, a close brush with the grim reaper leaves many people more convinced than ever that our minds are not tethered to our bodies, and therefore can su...

Datum: 28.02.2012 03:56 • Größe: 18.9 MB

314) Michael Mann - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Michael Mann, the prominent climatologist and, above all, leading defender of his field—and himself—against political attacks. Mann is out with a new book this month, which details his ten year battle against political attacks and misrepresentati...

Datum: 20.02.2012 22:22 • Größe: 15.7 MB

313) Dan Kahan - The Great Ideological Asymmetry Debate

Host: Chris Mooney So who's right, factually, about politics and science? Who speaks truth, and who's just spinning? It's kind of the million dollar question. If we could actually answer it, we'd have turned political debate itself into a... well, a science. And is such an answer possible? What does...

Datum: 14.02.2012 02:44 • Größe: 26.8 MB

312) Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing

Host: Chris Mooney We had Lawrence Krauss on Point of Inquiry less than a year ago, to discuss his recent book on the scientific works of Richard Feynman. But in order to keep up with him, we had to have him on again. Already. You see, Krauss has a new book out that's causing quite a stir right now&...

Datum: 07.02.2012 00:01 • Größe: 14.9 MB

311) Brian Malow - The Science Comedian

Host: Chris Mooney Earlier this month, Point of Inquiry host Chris Mooney attended Science Online, the premiere science blogging conference, in the research triangle area. There were many science aficionados, communicators, and wonks present, but Chris found himself hanging out a lot with Brian Malo...

Datum: 30.01.2012 18:31 • Größe: 11 MB

310) Eugenie Scott - Defending Climate Education

Host: Chris Mooney Eugenie Scott is no stranger to Point of Inquiry, or to the secular community. Her endless travails to defend the teaching of evolution have won her immense respect. And that's why, when Scott and her National Center for Science Education take on a new initiative, everybody listen...

Datum: 17.01.2012 01:23 • Größe: 10.7 MB

309) Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

Host: Chris Mooney It's the beginning of a new year here at Point of Inquiry, and we've got a pretty good guest to kick it off. He needs no introduction. He's Brian Greene—celebrity physicist, bestselling author, television star and all around science communication maestro. Officially: Greene ...

Datum: 03.01.2012 01:22 • Größe: 11.6 MB

308) Stuart Robbins - The End of the World as We Know It

Host: Karen Stollznow Dr. Stuart Robbins is a postdoctoral researcher in astronomy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His work focuses on planetary geophysics, and he’s currently researching craters on Mars, and on the moon. Stuart received his PhD in Astrophysics through the Geophysics p...

Datum: 27.12.2011 04:31 • Größe: 14.7 MB

307) John Cook - The Debunking Handbook

Host: Chris Mooney How do you successfully debunk misinformation? The question is a deceptively simple one—which is precisely the problem. Debunking is easy—just refute false claims, and provide corrective information. Debunking successfully is something else again-you have to change min...

Datum: 20.12.2011 00:57 • Größe: 10.1 MB

306) Daniel Dennett - The Scientific Study of Religion

Guest Host: John Shook Recently, the Center for Inquiry held a conference titled "Daniel Dennett and the Scientific Study of Religion: A Celebration of the Fifth Anniversary of Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon". During that conference, John Shook, CFI's Director of Education, sat...

Datum: 13.12.2011 03:05 • Größe: 16.8 MB

305) Robert McCauley - Why Religion is Natural (And Science is Not)

Host: Chris Mooney Over the last decade, there have been many calls in the secular community for increased criticism of religion, and increased activism to help loosen its grip on the public. But what if the human brain itself is aligned against that endeavor? That's the argument made by cognitive s...

Datum: 05.12.2011 21:22 • Größe: 12.7 MB

304) Scott Gavura - Dispensing Skepticism

Host: Karen Stollznow Scott Gavura is a registered pharmacist in Ontario with a personal and professional interest in improving the way we use medication. Scott started the Science-Based Pharmacy blog in 2009 to scrutinize pharmacy practices, and to begin a discussion within the industry a...

Datum: 29.11.2011 01:24 • Größe: 13.2 MB

303) Jonathan Weiler - Authoritarians Versus Reality

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Jonathan Weiler, a political scientist and director of global studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Weiler is co-author, with Marc Hetherington of Vanderbilt, of the book Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. In it, they...

Datum: 21.11.2011 19:45 • Größe: 11.7 MB

302) Tom Flynn - The Trouble With Christmas

Host: Robert Price Ebenezer Scrooge once called Christmas "a false and commercial holiday." Is it? Should Humanists refuse to observe it? Should they wage war on it? Should they celebrate "Sanka" versions of it like Solstice and "HumanLight"? Christians complain that the holiday has become seculariz...

Datum: 17.11.2011 22:32 • Größe: 11.6 MB

301) Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

Host: Chris Mooney Recently in New Orleans, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry held the very first CSICON—the conference dedicated to scientific inquiry and critical thinking. The main honoree: Bill Nye the Science Guy, who was given CSI's premiere "In Praise of Reason" award. The next day, P...

Datum: 08.11.2011 04:51 • Größe: 12.7 MB

300) Seth Shostak - ET, Call SETI

Host: Karen Stollznow Dr. Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI). Seth is the author of Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and is well known as one of the hosts of the popular radio s...

Datum: 01.11.2011 05:43 • Größe: 11.2 MB

299) Jonathan Moreno - Our New Biopolitics

Host: Chris Mooney Human cloning. Synthetic biology. Mood (and mind) altering drugs. Personalized medicine. Such topics are rarely at the top of the political agenda. Yet the changes they're causing, often below the radar, are monumental. Issues of personhood, identity, ethics, are at play. The huma...

Datum: 24.10.2011 20:41 • Größe: 12.7 MB

298) Richard C. Johnson - Religion: The Failed Narrative

Host: Robert Price Richard C. Johnson Ph.D. is a retired chemist and serves as Treasurer for Freethought Arizona. For some 25 years, the company he founded worked with scientists and researchers in chemical analysis. Through family ties, Richard had long been a kind of participant observer of religi...

Datum: 19.10.2011 21:35 • Größe: 14.1 MB

297) Shawn Otto - The Assault on Science

Host: Chris Mooney In recent months, political attacks on science have been back in the news. Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman even famously tweeted, "To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy." So it's very timely that Shawn Lawrenc...

Datum: 11.10.2011 00:41 • Größe: 14.8 MB

296) CSICon - The Conference Dedicated To Scientific Inquiry And Critical Thinking

Host: Adam Isaak This October-on Halloween weekend-the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is holding a conference: CSICon. It's the latest in a line of CSI skeptics' conferences going back to what is likely the first skeptics' conference ever held, a CSICOP (CSI) conference back in 1983. This epis...

Datum: 06.10.2011 16:22 • Größe: 11.7 MB

295) Indre Viskontas - The Miracle Detective

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 against "believer" Randall Sullivan, author of the b...

Datum: 04.10.2011 03:17 • Größe: 16.5 MB

294) Austin Dacey - Rock the Theocrats

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 metal, and funk from Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhst...

Datum: 27.09.2011 01:28 • Größe: 10.9 MB

293) Lee Salisbury - From Faith to Critical Thinking

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 themselves to entertain doubts as to the worthiness of...

Datum: 20.09.2011 03:25 • Größe: 9.9 MB

292) Rachel Tabachnick - Exposing Dominionism

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 Reformation, which helped organize a recent praye...

Datum: 12.09.2011 20:02 • Größe: 13.4 MB

291) John Dodes - The Tooth About Dentistry

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 Fraud, and a member of the Health Fraud Advisory...

Datum: 07.09.2011 03:28 • Größe: 15.5 MB

290) Scott Atran - Violent Extremism and Sacred Values

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 violent extremism. There has also been considerable s...

Datum: 30.08.2011 03:50 • Größe: 16.1 MB

289) Dan Barker - U-Turn on the Road to Damascus

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 happening to more and more Evangelicals these days!...

Datum: 23.08.2011 00:18 • Größe: 12.1 MB

288) Did Reason Evolve For Arguing? - Hugo Mercier

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 rhetoric and complex mathematical calculations? Ac...

Datum: 15.08.2011 23:49 • Größe: 11.5 MB

287) Donald Prothero - The Psychology of Cryptozoologists

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 Paleontological Society, he has received fellowships from th...

Datum: 08.08.2011 19:59 • Größe: 13.2 MB

286) David Frum and Kenneth Silber - Conservatives and Science

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 right, incandescent light bulb availability denial; conservativ...

Datum: 01.08.2011 23:47 • Größe: 11.5 MB

285) Jaco Gericke - Confessions of a Died-Again Christian

Host: Robert Price A couple of student hecklers once reproved Marlowe's Dr. Faustus: "Faustus! Plumb the depths of that which you profess!" Many evangelical Christians have buckled down to study apologetics or biblical studies in just that spirit—and wound up not professing any more! Their sto...

Datum: 25.07.2011 21:36 • Größe: 14.7 MB

284) Rebecca Watson - Skepticism and Feminism

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Rebecca Watson, the founder of the Skepchick blog. Recently, she's been at the center of an explosive controversy over the relationship between feminism and the skeptic/atheist movement. It all started when Watson made a relatively casual remark in...

Datum: 19.07.2011 19:24 • Größe: 12.5 MB

283) Richard Wiseman - Paranormality

Host: Karen Stollznow Richard Wiseman is Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in England. Richard began his career as a professional magician before pursuing a career in psychology, and developing a reputation for research into luck, deception, the p...

Datum: 11.07.2011 18:28 • Größe: 11.6 MB

282) Matthew Chapman - The Ledge

Host: Chris Mooney It's not often that Hollywood takes up the subject of atheism directly—much less sympathetically. Even rarer is finding this in a film starring major names like Liv Tyler and Terence Howard. But that's what Matthew Chapman has achieved in The Ledge—which also stars Pat...

Datum: 05.07.2011 00:30 • Größe: 10.9 MB

281) D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy

Host: Robert Price D.M. Murdock, who also goes by the pen name "Acharya S.," is the author of The Christ Conspiracy, the most controversial of modern treatments of the Christ Myth theory. She has had to field flack from both apologists and atheists. An independent scholar of comparative religi...

Datum: 28.06.2011 21:57 • Größe: 21.7 MB

280) Rick Perlstein - Is There a Republican War on History?

Host: Chris Mooney Recently, we've seen a spate of news stories—and news incidents—involving conservative politicians and activists getting details wrong about American history. There was, most infamously, Sarah Palin saying that Paul Revere, on his famous midnight ride, rang bells ...

Datum: 20.06.2011 21:43 • Größe: 10.9 MB

279) Jean Mercer - Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

Host: Karen Stollznow This week’s guest is Jean Mercer, a Developmental Psychologist and Professor Emerita at Richard Stockton College. She is the author of the new book Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings. Jean writes the blog "Child Myths", and along with Penn Jillette and Richard...

Datum: 14.06.2011 18:39 • Größe: 16.7 MB

278) Michael Shermer - The Believing Brain

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and head of the Skeptics Society, and a longtime commentator on issues relating to science, critical thinking, and the paranormal. Chris asked Michael on to discuss his new book, which is entitled The Believ...

Datum: 06.06.2011 22:53 • Größe: 14.6 MB

277) Scott Lohman - Star Trek and Humanism

Host: Robert Price Do you often wish you lived in the far future? Or on a different planet? Do your friends and family think you belong there, too? Cheer up! This may not be just because you're a science fiction nerd! It may be because you espouse a worldview that is in the distinct minority in our ...

Datum: 31.05.2011 19:16 • Größe: 14.2 MB

276) Jonathan Kay - Among the Truthers

Host: Chris Mooney From Birthers, to Truthers, to Deathers—to occasional Liars—America seems to be crawling right now with fevered conspiracy mongers. What's up with that? To find out, Point of Inquiry turns in this episode to Jonathan Kay, author of the new book Among the Truthers: A Jo...

Datum: 24.05.2011 04:35 • Größe: 12.8 MB

275) Robert Sheaffer - It's a Conspiracy

Host: Karen Stollznow Robert Sheaffer is a Committee for Skeptical Inquiry fellow and author of the "Psychic Vibrations" column for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. He writes the "Bad UFO" blog and "The Debunker's Domain" website, and is the author of The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence, UFO Sightin...

Datum: 18.05.2011 02:03 • Größe: 11.4 MB

274) Chris Mooney - Accommodationism and the Psychology of Belief

Special Guest Host: Ronald A. Lindsay In this special episode, Chris Mooney changes places and becomes the interviewee—and then finds himself facing some probing questions from CFI President and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay. This frank interview is all substance and no fluff as Mooney is asked to def...

Datum: 11.05.2011 15:41 • Größe: 18 MB

273) Bo Bennett - Christian Nontheism

Host: Robert Price Robert "Bo" Bennett wears many hats (author, motivational speaker, black belt Karate master, businessman, etc.) but manages not to have a swelled head to accommodate them! His latest book is called The Concept: Introduction to Christian Nontheism, an accessible and engaging presen...

Datum: 03.05.2011 02:11 • Größe: 15.7 MB

272) George Lakoff - Enlightenments, Old and New

Host: Chris Mooney George Lakoff is a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. But unlike many of his scientific peers, he's known as much for his work on politics as for his research. Lakoff the famed author of many books on why the left and right disagree about politics, inc...

Datum: 25.04.2011 19:21 • Größe: 18.8 MB

271) Josh Rosenau - The Evolution Revolution

Host: Karen Stollznow Our guest this week is Josh Rosenau, the Programs and Policy Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), and writer of the blog "Thoughts from Kansas" at ScienceBlogs. Josh has pursued a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, studying the wa...

Datum: 20.04.2011 01:15 • Größe: 15.7 MB

270) Nuclear Risk and Reason - David Brenner and David Ropeik

Host: Chris Mooney When the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Japan last month, it left behind not only mass destruction, but also a nuclear crisis that was covered 24-7 by the international media. Since then, we've been embroiled in a huge debate about nuclear policy—should ther...

Datum: 11.04.2011 23:05 • Größe: 16.1 MB

269) August Berkshire - Minnesota Atheist

Host: Robert Price One of the outstanding leaders of organized atheism in our day is a man named August Berkshire. He is a non-believer of broad sympathies, having served as an officer and/or board member of organizations as diverse as Minnesota Atheists, Atheist Alliance International, Humanists of...

Datum: 05.04.2011 01:56 • Größe: 15.8 MB

268) Lawrence Krauss - Quantum Man

Host: Chris Mooney Physicist Lawrence Krauss has written numerous popular books about science, including the bestselling The Physics of Star Trek. But now he's tried something different—penning a scientific biography of the famed Nobel Prize winning physicist (and infamous bon vivant) Richard ...

Datum: 28.03.2011 18:07 • Größe: 13.5 MB

267) Cheryl Russell - Society, Statistics and Skepticism

Host: Karen Stollznow My guest this week is Cheryl Russell, a recognized authority on statistics and demographics. Cheryl is the editorial director of New Strategist Publications and the former editor-in-chief of American Demographics magazine. She is the author of the "Demo Memo" blog and the books...

Datum: 21.03.2011 23:53 • Größe: 13.3 MB

266) Spirituality: Friend or Foe? - Adam Frank and Tom Flynn

Host: Chris Mooney Recently, it has come to light that many scientists—scientists who don't believe in God--nevertheless claim to be "spiritual but not religious." Some in the secular movement have responded favorably to this new trend-one unfolding against the backdrop of an increasingly secu...

Datum: 15.03.2011 01:46 • Größe: 19 MB

265) Frank Zindler - The Christ Myth

Host: Robert Price One of the most effective (not to mention hilarious) speakers for atheism and secular humanism today is Frank Zindler, author, linguist, translator, Bible scholar, and scientist—truly a Renaissance Man. He is an advocate as well for the much-despised but increasingly hard to...

Datum: 07.03.2011 23:19 • Größe: 13.7 MB

264) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week needs little introduction—he may be our most famous public communicator of science. He's Neil DeGrasse Tyson, renowned American astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History, and the host of PBS's NOVA Scienc...

Datum: 28.02.2011 20:59 • Größe: 19 MB

263) Michael Cicchini - Myths, Misconceptions, and the Law

Host: Karen Stollznow Michael Cicchini is a criminal defense attorney and a skeptic. Through extensive research and writing in the field of criminal law he has advocated for defendants' rights. Super Lawyers and Milwaukee Magazine have named him among "The Top Young Lawyers" for four consecutive yea...

Datum: 21.02.2011 18:59 • Größe: 12.5 MB

262) Dan Kahan - The American Culture War of Fact

Host: Chris Mooney Why do Americans claim to love science, but then selectively reject its findings when they're inconvenient? And why do some cultural groups reject certain types of scientific findings (about, say, harm to the environment), whereas others reject others? Yale law professor Dan Kahan...

Datum: 14.02.2011 16:18 • Größe: 13.6 MB

261) Don Webb - Devil's Advocate

Host: Robert Price The nineties witnessed an outbreak of "Satanic Panic," with psychologists dredging up false memories of "Satanic ritual abuse" which landed innocent parents in jail and banked the fires of hysteria. It seemed the Salem Witch Trials had returned! But what is Satanism? Are there act...

Datum: 07.02.2011 16:54 • Größe: 12.8 MB

260) Art Caplan - Bioethics Comes of Age

Host: Chris Mooney Our guest this week is Arthur Caplan, sometimes called the country's "most quoted bioethicist" and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. In this wide ranging episode, Caplan discusses not only the latest issues and problems in his field, but also ...

Datum: 31.01.2011 20:18 • Größe: 13.1 MB

259) Joe Nickell - The Other Side

Host: Karen Stollznow Joe Nickell is one of the world's most prominent skeptical investigators of the paranormal. He has researched numerous historical, paranormal, and forensic mysteries, myths and hoaxes, including hauntings, crop circles, UFOs, psychic claims, the Shroud of Turin, and the purport...

Datum: 22.01.2011 05:59 • Größe: 19.3 MB

258) The Irrationality Vaccine - Seth Mnookin

Host: Chris Mooney Recently the British Medical Journal dealt yet another blow to 1998 scientific study that first terrified the public about the possibility that vaccines might cause autism. The paper, the Journal alleged, was nothing less than "fraudulent." (http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c745...

Datum: 15.01.2011 04:17 • Größe: 11.1 MB

257) Hector Avalos - The End of Biblical Studies

Host: Robert Price Robert Price interviews fellow Bible Geek and secular Bible scholar Hector Avalos on a wide range of topics, from the increasingly devotional character of the Society of Biblical Literature to law enforcement in the Bible and whether Ezekiel was seeing a flying saucer. D...

Datum: 08.01.2011 00:22 • Größe: 16.5 MB

256) Barry Kosmin - One Nation, Losing God

Host: Chris Mooney By now you've probably heard the finding-the United States is growing less godly. More precisely, more and more Americans in surveys report that they lack a religious identity. These are the so-called "nones," and they already comprise 15 percent of the total population. But there...

Datum: 01.01.2011 21:33 • Größe: 13.8 MB

255) Reed Esau - SkeptiCamp: The Unconference

Host: Karen Stollznow Reed Esau is a skeptical activist and one of the founders of SkeptiCamp. Also known as Open Events, these are informal, community-organized conference where speakers tackle issues regarding science and skepticism. SkeptiCamp encourages participation as well as observation. A so...

Datum: 25.12.2010 09:33 • Größe: 10.4 MB

254) Why Facts Fail - Brendan Nyhan

Ever been in an argument with someone and felt massively frustrated, because nothing you can say seems to change the person's mind? Maybe that's what you should expect to happen. Maybe you should get used to it. According to University of Michigan political scientist Brendan Nyhan, that's how our mi...

Datum: 18.12.2010 03:10 • Größe: 10.5 MB

253) Roger Nygard - The Nature of Existence

Host: Robert Price Roger Nygard recently produced and directed a feature documentary called The Nature of Existence. In it, he asks some of the biggest of questions to "the widest cross-section of humanity possible." Why do we exist? What is our purpose? What is truth? He asked these and many other ...

Datum: 11.12.2010 00:25 • Größe: 12 MB

252) The Future of Atheism: Beyond the Question of God

Host: Chris Mooney Recently at Pomona College in California, three atheists—one of them a Point of Inquiry host—got together to debate the future of the movement. And some sparks flew. Topics raised included the rise of the so-called "nones" (those professing "no religion" in surveys), t...

Datum: 04.12.2010 02:28 • Größe: 18.9 MB

251) James Randi and D.J. Grothe - Amaz!ng Skepticism

Host: Karen Stollznow This week is a special episode featuring interviews with two guests, James Randi and D.J. Grothe. James Randi is a world-renowned magician and the modern-day Houdini of skepticism. He is the author of numerous books, including Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns and Other Delusi...

Datum: 27.11.2010 19:24 • Größe: 13.9 MB

250) John Abraham and Scott Mandia - Climate Science Strikes Back

Host: Chris Mooney For the community of scientists who study the Earth’s climate, these are bewildering times. They've seen wave upon wave of political attacks. They're getting accustomed to a public that grows more skeptical of their conclusions even as scientists grow more confident in them....

Datum: 20.11.2010 04:53 • Größe: 10.1 MB

249) Ronald A. Lindsay - Observations on Ethics, Law, and CFI

Host: Robert Price How did his studies at Catholic Georgetown University set CFI President and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay on the primrose path to atheism? Does he now count himself a lawyer or a philosopher, neither, or both? Point of Inquiry asks Ron about the basis for ethics for atheists and secularis...

Datum: 15.11.2010 19:40 • Größe: 15.8 MB

248) Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense on Stilts

Host: Chris Mooney It’s a longstanding debate in the philosophy of science: Is "demarcation" possible? Can we really draw firm lines between science and pseudoscience? Massimo Pigliucci thinks so. In his new book Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, Pigliucci attempts to rescue t...

Datum: 06.11.2010 00:11 • Größe: 13.2 MB

247) Warren Bonett - Down Under Reason

Host: Karen Stollznow Warren Bonett is a skeptic, author and an independent bookseller. Warren wanted to become actively involved in critical thinking without joining an organization or becoming an –ism, so he opened "Embiggen Books". This is a unique store specializing in skeptical and scienc...

Datum: 29.10.2010 18:32 • Größe: 12.3 MB

246) Carl Zimmer - This is Your Brain on iPad

Host: Chris Mooney On the show this week, Point of Inquiry features one of our most distinguished science writers—Carl Zimmer. He's the author of many acclaimed books, including Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, and now he’s taken on an experiment: Publishing his next book, Brain Cuttin...

Datum: 23.10.2010 00:32 • Größe: 13.7 MB

245) John Shook - The God Debates

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 atheists take them more seriously than they deserve. Ot...

Datum: 17.10.2010 04:24 • Größe: 14 MB

244) PZ Myers, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Chris Mooney - New Atheism or Accommodatio

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 humanists respond to science and religion? If we champion...

Datum: 11.10.2010 05:52 • Größe: 18 MB

243) Steve Spangler - Hands-on Science

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 About and his latest title Naked Eggs And Flying Pot...

Datum: 02.10.2010 03:08 • Größe: 14 MB

242) Jennifer Ouellette - Calculus, Las Vegas, and the Zombie Apocalypse

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 that so intimidated her in high school. Along th...

Datum: 24.09.2010 17:40 • Größe: 9.5 MB

241) Jen Roth - Atheist Against Abortion

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, sexual and reproductive decisions. Jen is an at...

Datum: 18.09.2010 01:37 • Größe: 11.8 MB

240) S. Jay Olshansky - Can Science Extend Human Life?

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 extend human life by as much as 7 years on average. O...

Datum: 11.09.2010 00:01 • Größe: 9.8 MB

239) Brian Brushwood - Scams, Swindles and Skepticism

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 Drink and The Professional's Guide to Fire Eating...

Datum: 03.09.2010 22:46 • Größe: 13.7 MB

238) Richard Wrangham - Rediscovering Fire

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 Made Us Human, Harvard anthropologist Richard Wran...

Datum: 27.08.2010 23:24 • Größe: 10.8 MB

237) Robert M. Price - Is the Bible Mein Kampf?

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 most secular and non-religious of us. He discusses ...

Datum: 21.08.2010 00:40 • Größe: 9.2 MB

236) Alexander Zaitchik - Glenn Beck?s War on Reason

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 discourse—and even has the gall to liken his efforts to ...

Datum: 14.08.2010 00:02 • Größe: 11.4 MB

235) Andrew Mayne - Magic, Mischief and Mayhem

Andrew Mayne is a magician, paranormal illusionist, inventor, TV producer and skeptic. One of the most creative and innovative minds in magic, Andrew has written and produced over 40 books and DVDs. Both creator and consultant, he has worked with a number of artists including David Blaine, and Penn ...

Datum: 07.08.2010 01:45 • Größe: 12.3 MB

234) Francesca Grifo - Science Under Obama

When President Obama was inaugurated in January of 2009, he pledged to “restore science to its rightful place” in the U.S. government. And true to his word, the president promptly staffed his cabinet with distinguished scientific leaders, liberated embryonic stem cell research from t...

Datum: 30.07.2010 17:43 • Größe: 10.5 MB

233) Tom Quinn - O Sweet Jesus

Tom Quinn has spent the past 15 years as a documentary TV writer and producer for Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic and others. He has traveled the world producing programs that explore and deconstruct urban legends, psychic claims, religious myths and conspiracy theories, ...

Datum: 24.07.2010 01:40 • Größe: 13.3 MB

232) Phil Plait - Death from the Skies

Our guest this week needs no introduction for those in the skeptical and secular world. After all, he has a frakkin' asteroid named after him. He’s Phil Plait—science blogger extraordinaire for Discover Blogs, where he authors “Bad Astronomy.” Recently, Plait joined Point o...

Datum: 16.07.2010 20:34 • Größe: 12 MB

231) Adam Savage - Skeptic (Confirmed)

Adam Savage is an artist, actor, educator, special effects designer and co-host of the Discovery Channel's TV show Mythbusters. Adam has a diverse background in animation and design, and for almost two decades he has concentrated on the special effects industry for film, theater and televis...

Datum: 10.07.2010 04:13 • Größe: 9.4 MB

230) Robert Price & Chris Mooney - Must Atheists Also Be Liberals?

Recently in Amherst, New York, two of Point of Inquiry’s hosts sat down for a special in-studio episode of the show. One was a conservative (Robert Price), one a liberal (Chris Mooney)—and both were atheists. The topic they tackled: Is there any necessary correlation between one&rsq...

Datum: 03.07.2010 00:21 • Größe: 10.5 MB

229) Tom Flynn - In Like Flynn

Tom Flynn is Executive Director of The Council for Secular Humanism, Editor of Free Inquiry magazine, Director of Inquiry Media Productions, and Director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and freethought historian, Flynn is the author of nume...

Datum: 25.06.2010 21:45 • Größe: 11.6 MB

228) Bill McKibben - Our Strange New Eaarth

Global warming, we're often told, is an issue we must address for the sake of our grandchildren. We need to cut carbon because of our moral obligation to future generations. But according to Bill McKibben, that's a 1980s view. As McKibben writes in his new book Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough N...

Datum: 18.06.2010 16:59 • Größe: 11.3 MB

227) Tim Farley - What?s the Harm?

Tim Farley is a computer software engineer, skeptic, and creator of the popular website What?s the Harm? His site answers this salient question with over 670,000 stories of people who have indeed been harmed, damaged, injured, or even killed by pseudoscience and the paranormal What?s the Harm...

Datum: 12.06.2010 00:47 • Größe: 14.2 MB

226) Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

This week?s guest is Naomi Oreskes, co-author with historian Eric Conway of the new book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Through extensive archival research, Oreskes and Conway have managed to connect the dots betwee...

Datum: 04.06.2010 17:32 • Größe: 14.9 MB

225) S.T. Joshi - Fright and Freethought

S. T. Joshi is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and other writers, mostly in the realms of supernatural and fantasy fiction. He has edited corrected editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such cr...

Datum: 28.05.2010 21:35 • Größe: 11 MB

224) Michael Specter - The Menace of Denialism

This week, we learned that J. Craig Venter has at long last created a synthetic organism—a simple life form constructed, for the first time, by man. Let the controversy begin—and if New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter is correct, the denial of science will be riding hard alongsid...

Datum: 21.05.2010 17:47 • Größe: 13.1 MB

223) George Hrab - Soundtrack to Skepticism

George Hrab is a composer, professional musician, singer, songwriter, podcaster, and skeptic. George is the Host and Producer of the Geologic Podcast, a popular weekly show about music, comedy, science, and skepticism. The drummer in the band Philadelphia Funk Authority, he is a successful multi...

Datum: 14.05.2010 19:20 • Größe: 9.3 MB

222) Elaine Howard Ecklund - How Religious Are Scientists?

It’s hard to think of an issue more contentious these days than the relationship between faith and science. If you have any doubt, just flip over to the science blogosphere: You’ll see the argument everywhere. In the scholarly arena, meanwhile, the topic has been approached fr...

Datum: 07.05.2010 18:23 • Größe: 12.9 MB

221) Lois Schadewald - The Schadewald Legacy: Nemesis of Pseudo-Science

Lois Schadewald's interest in both science and pseudoscience rubbed off on her from her brilliant brother Robert J. Schadewald, a prolific author and debater. When Bob died a decade ago he left behind a legacy of published essays and book chapters, as well as much unpublished material including ...

Datum: 30.04.2010 16:21 • Größe: 10.1 MB

220) Deborah Blum - Murder and Chemistry in Jazz Age New York

For many of us, chemistry is something we remember with groans from high school. Periodic Table of the Elements—what a pain to memorize, and what was the point, anyway? So how do you take a subject like chemistry and make it exciting, intriguing, and compelling? With her new book The Pois...

Datum: 23.04.2010 14:11 • Größe: 12 MB

219) Bob Carroll - Defining Skepticism

Dr. Robert Todd Carroll is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and author of The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions. He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Sacramento City College, where he taught Logic and Critical Reas...

Datum: 16.04.2010 16:54 • Größe: 9.7 MB

218) Eli Kintisch - Is Planet-Hacking Inevitable?

For two decades now, we’ve failed to seriously address climate change. So the planet just keeps warming—and it could get very bad. Picture major droughts, calving of gigantic ice sheets, increasingly dramatic sea level rise, and much more. Against this backdrop, the idea of a technol...

Datum: 09.04.2010 17:01 • Größe: 12.2 MB

217) Thomas J.J. Altizer - The Death of God

Thomas J.J. Altizer burst onto the religious scene in the 1960s with his book The Gospel of Christian Atheism. He was one of the "Death of God" theologians discussed in the famous TIME cover story, "Is God Dead?" Altzier holds an M.A. in theology and Ph.D. in History of Religions from the Univer...

Datum: 02.04.2010 15:56 • Größe: 9.6 MB

216) Paul Kurtz - John Dewey and the Real Point of Inquiry

Paul Kurtz is founder and chair emeritus of the Center for Inquiry and founder of a number of other organizations. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, chairman of the Committee...

Datum: 26.03.2010 15:25 • Größe: 11 MB

215) Scott Lilienfeld - Real Self-Help

Dr. Scott Lilienfeld is Professor of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. Scott is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, a Consulting Editor for Skeptical Inquirer and the Founder and Editor of the CSI journal Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice. He’s a regular co...

Datum: 19.03.2010 17:05 • Größe: 14.4 MB

214) Victor Stenger - Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

Victor Stenger is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is also founder of Colorado Citizens for Science. He’s held visiting faculty positions at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and at Oxford...

Datum: 16.03.2010 14:13 • Größe: 12.6 MB

213) Andrew Revkin - The Death of Science Writing, and the Future of Catastrophe

We live in a science centered age—a time of private spaceflight and personalized medicine, amid path-breaking advances in biotechnology and nanotechnology. And we face science centered risks: climate and energy crises, biological and nuclear terror threats, mega-disasters and global pandem...

Datum: 12.03.2010 18:18 • Größe: 11.5 MB

212) Robert J. Miller - The Jesus Seminar

Robert J. Miller is Rosenberger Chair of Christian and Religious Studies at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. A Fellow of the Jesus Seminar since 1986, he was Scholar-in-Residence at Westar Institute in 2001. He is the of author numerous books, including Born Divine: The Births of Jesu...

Datum: 05.03.2010 17:53 • Größe: 12.6 MB

211) Michael Mann - Unprecedented Attacks on Climate Research

For the scientists who study global warming, now is the winter of their despair. In the news, it has been climate scandal after alleged climate scandal. First came “ClimateGate,” then “GlacierGate,” “Amazon Gate,” and so on. In public opini...

Datum: 26.02.2010 20:24 • Größe: 14.5 MB

210) Victor Stenger - The New Atheists

Victor Stenger is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is also founder of Colorado Citizens for Science. He's held visiting faculty positions at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and at ...

Datum: 24.02.2010 23:29 • Größe: 11.8 MB

209) Ian Rowland - The Cold Hard Facts of Cold Reading

Ian Rowland is a Mentalist and Mind Reader living near London, UK. The world’s foremost authority on cold reading, he is the author of the Full Facts Book of Cold Reading. In this book, Rowland has defined and categorized the different types of psychic readings, and created a t...

Datum: 19.02.2010 17:31 • Größe: 10.7 MB

208) Paul Offit - The Costs of Vaccine Denialism

Recently, there was another nail in the coffin for vaccine skeptics. The British medical journal The Lancet took the dramatic step of retracting a 1998 paper that lies at the root of modern vaccine denialism. Authored by a doctor named Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues, it was heavily touted as ha...

Datum: 12.02.2010 17:06 • Größe: 12.6 MB

207) Banachek - Mentalism and Skepticism

Banachek is an American mentalist and skeptic. He has written numerous books and invented various magic and mentalism effects, and is often sought out by top entertainers such as David Blaine, Lance Burton, James Randi and Criss Angel. He has been the recipient of a number of awards and recognitions...

Datum: 25.01.2010 15:20 • Größe: 9.9 MB

206) Frank Schaeffer - Crazy for God

Frank Schaeffer is New York Times best selling author whose books include three semi-biographical novels about life in a strict, fundamentalist household: Portofino, Zermatt, and Saving Grandma, and also the memoir Crazy For God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right an...

Datum: 06.11.2009 07:01 • Größe: 16.2 MB

205) The 13th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

Harry Houdini, the world-famous magician and debunker of mediums, earnestly explored the religion of spiritualism and communication with the dead after his beloved mother?s death in 1913. In this episode for Halloween 2009, skeptics and former professional magicians Joe Nickell and D.J. Grothe di...

Datum: 31.10.2009 03:19 • Größe: 11.5 MB

204) Randy Olson - Dont Be Such a Scientist

Randy Olson is a marine biologist and filmmaker who holds a PhD in biology from Harvard University. A graduate of the U.S.C. Cinema School in 1997, he wrote and directed the movies Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, and Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy. His new book is Don't Be ...

Datum: 24.10.2009 01:39 • Größe: 13.8 MB

203) Darrel Ray - The God Virus

Dr. Darrel W. Ray is author of three books, two on organizational psychology. He has been a psychologist for over 30 years. After practicing counseling and clinical psychology for 10 years, his focus shifted to organizational psychology and consulting. A longtime student of religion, his latest book...

Datum: 16.10.2009 07:03 • Größe: 12.9 MB

202) Chris Mooney - Unscientific America

Chris Mooney is a 2009-2010 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and author of three books, including the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum. In this ...

Datum: 10.10.2009 04:34 • Größe: 9.9 MB

201) Russell Blackford - 50 Voices of Disbelief

Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic, and editor-in-chief of The Journal of Evolution and Technology. His new book, edited with Udo Schuklenk, is 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists. In this interview with D.J. Grothe, Russell Blackford explains the need for ...

Datum: 03.10.2009 03:45 • Größe: 9.8 MB

200) Ben Radford - Skepticism 2.0

Ben Radford is is one of the world's few science-based paranormal investigators, and has done first-hand research into psychics, ghosts and haunted houses, exorcisms, Bigfoot, lake monsters, UFO sightings, crop circles, and other topics. He is managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and autho...

Datum: 26.09.2009 01:50 • Größe: 14.3 MB

199) Greg Craven - What is the Worst That Could Happen?

Greg Craven is a high school science teacher and climate change activist from Oregon. His new book is What's the Worst That Could Happen? A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate. In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Greg Craven discusses the youtube video on global warming he created ...

Datum: 19.09.2009 01:46 • Größe: 12.5 MB

198) J.D. Trout - The Science of the Good Society

J.D. Trout is a professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago, and an adjunct professor at the Parmly Sensory Sciences Institute. He writes on the nature of scientific and intellectual progress, as well as on the contribution that social science can make to human well-being. He is the author ...

Datum: 11.09.2009 04:15 • Größe: 10.3 MB

197) J.D. Trout - The Empathy Gap

Datum: 04.09.2009 04:10 • Größe: 10.2 MB

196) Jeff Sharlet - The Family

Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper's and Rolling Stone, and a visiting research scholar at New York University's Center for Religion and Media, where he has taught journalism and religious studies. He is the coauther, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Buddha, and editor of TheRevealer...

Datum: 29.08.2009 00:33 • Größe: 19.5 MB

195) William Little - The Psychic Tourist

William Little is a freelance journalist based in London, England. He has written for the Saturday Telegraph magazine, Weekend Telegraph, the Guardian, The Times and the Financial Times. He has also worked for Arena, Esquire and Cosmopolitan, and contributed articles to the Independent, the Daily Ex...

Datum: 21.08.2009 14:49 • Größe: 14.4 MB

194) Paul Kurtz - A Kinder, Gentler Secularism

Datum: 14.08.2009 14:47 • Größe: 9 MB

193) Benjamin Wiker - The Darwin Myth

Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and is also a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute. His books include Answering the New Atheism and Ten Books That Screwed Up The World. His Newest is The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin. ...

Datum: 07.08.2009 04:15 • Größe: 18.5 MB

192) Ron Lindsay - International Blasphemy Day

Ronald A. Lindsay is a bioethicist, lawyer, and chief executive officer of the Center for Inquiry. For many years he practiced law in Washington, DC, and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and American University, where he taught jurisprudence and philosophy courses. His new book is F...

Datum: 31.07.2009 20:26 • Größe: 11.7 MB

191) Mark Blumberg - Freaks of Nature

Mark S. Blumberg is Professor and Starch Faculty Fellow at the University of Iowa. His books include The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Behavioral Neuroscience, Body Heat: Temperature and Life on Earth, and Basic Instinct: The Genesis of Behavior. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Behavioral Ne...

Datum: 24.07.2009 14:23 • Größe: 10.7 MB

190) Zachary Shore - Blunder

Zachary Shore is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He previously served on the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is the author of Wha...

Datum: 17.07.2009 04:11 • Größe: 12.3 MB

189) James Randi - The Faith Healers

James "The Amazing" Randi is a world-renowned magician, skeptic and investigator of paranormal claims and is a central figure in the founding of the world-wide skeptical movement. Perhaps best known for the One Million Dollar Challenge, in which his educational foundation awards $1,000,000 to anyone...

Datum: 10.07.2009 20:39 • Größe: 9.9 MB

188) Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Caged Virgin

Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, was raised Muslim, and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. In 1992, Hirsi Ali came to the Netherlands as a refugee. She earned her M.A. in political science and worked for the Dutch Labor party. She has served as a Dutch...

Datum: 03.07.2009 05:11 • Größe: 10 MB

187) Tom Flynn - Secular Humanism versus . . . Atheism?

Tom Flynn is Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, and the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry, many addressing church-state issues, as well as the best-selling The Trouble W...

Datum: 26.06.2009 14:23 • Größe: 10.8 MB

186) Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save

Peter Singer has been called "the world?s most influential living philosopher," by The New Yorker and Time Magazine listed him in ?The Time 100,? their annual listing of the world?s 100 most influential people. He is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at th...

Datum: 19.06.2009 23:42 • Größe: 12.8 MB

185) Tom Clark - Scientific Naturalism and the Illusion of Free Will

Tom Clark is director of the non-profit Center for Naturalism and author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses. He writes on science, free will, consciousness, addiction and other topics, and maintains Naturalism.org, an extensive resource on worldview naturalism. He is also moderator...

Datum: 12.06.2009 04:15 • Größe: 11.3 MB

184) Ray Hyman - The Elusive Quarry

Ray Hyman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon and one of the leading figures of modern skepticism. He was a founding member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP). He has been a consultant with the U.S. Department of Defense, helping investigate parapsyc...

Datum: 05.06.2009 05:50 • Größe: 16.8 MB

183) Susan Sackett - The Secular Humanism of Star Trek

Susan Sackett began an association with Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television legend ?Star Trek,? serving as his personal executive assistant for over 17 years until his death in October 1991. She also served as his production assistant on the first Star Trek film and worked closely with him o...

Datum: 30.05.2009 03:18 • Größe: 9.7 MB

182) Michael Shermer - Science, Skepticism and Libertarianism

Michael Shermer is one of the most well-known skeptics in America, working for decades to advance the scientific outlook in society. He is a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Scientific American, and is the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech. Since his founding ...

Datum: 23.05.2009 03:17 • Größe: 16.2 MB

181) Dale McGowan - Raising Freethinkers

Dale McGowan has edited and co-authored Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers, the first comprehensive resources for nonreligious parents. He writes the secular parenting blog The Meming of Life, teaches nonreligious parenting seminars across the United States, and serves as executive dir...

Datum: 15.05.2009 05:21 • Größe: 14.8 MB

180) David Koepsell - Who Owns You?

David Koepsell is an author, philosopher, and attorney whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is Assistant Professor, Philosophy Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management at the Technology University of Delft, in The Netherlands,...

Datum: 09.05.2009 02:31 • Größe: 10 MB

179) Jeff Schweitzer - Beyond Cosmic Dice: Moral Life in a Random World

Dr. Jeffrey Schweitzer is an author, scientist and public speaker who has traveled widely speaking to varied groups about the application of the scientific worldview to public policy and ethical questions. He has published more than one hundred articles in an eclectic range of fields, including neur...

Datum: 01.05.2009 04:45 • Größe: 17.6 MB

178) Paul Kurtz - Science and the Limits of the New Skepticism

Paul Kurtz is founder and chair of the Center for Inquiry and a number of other organizations. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, chairman of the Committee for the Skeptical Inqui...

Datum: 24.04.2009 06:51 • Größe: 9.9 MB

177) Bruce M. Hood - Supersense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable

Bruce M. Hood is chair of the Cognitive Development Center in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol. He was a research fellow at Cambridge and has been a visiting scientist at MIT and professor at Harvard. Hood has received many awards for his work in child development ...

Datum: 17.04.2009 05:49 • Größe: 15.7 MB

176) Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach is the author of Stiff: The curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Wired, National Geographic, New Scientist, and the New York Times Magazine. Her latest book is Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. In thi...

Datum: 10.04.2009 04:56 • Größe: 13.1 MB

175) Dacher Keltner - Born to Be Good

Dacher Keltner is professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the Greater Good Science Center, and coeditor of Greater Good magazine. His research focuses on the prosocial emotions, such as love, sympathy and gratitude, and processes such as teasing and flirtation ...

Datum: 04.04.2009 03:42 • Größe: 14.2 MB

174) Austin Dacey - The U.N. and Defamation of Religions

Austin Dacey serves as a respresentative to the United Nations for CFI, and is also on the editorial staff of Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times and USA Today. His new book is The Secular Conscience: Why Bel...

Datum: 28.03.2009 00:48 • Größe: 8.4 MB

173) Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Pluto Files

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, director of the world-famous Hayden Planetarium, a monthly columnist for Natural History, and an award-winning author. Tyson is also the host of NOVA ScienceNOW and a frequent guest on The Daily Show and Jon Stewar...

Datum: 20.03.2009 18:35 • Größe: 9.1 MB

172) Angie McQuaig - Camp Inquiry

Angie McQuaig is a distinguished educator whose PhD is in educational leadership. Dr. McQuaig has served for nineteen years in public education as a teacher and administrator both in the US and abroad. She is currently chief academic officer in a professional development company that trains teachers...

Datum: 13.03.2009 18:34 • Größe: 8.5 MB

171) Eric Maisel - The Atheists Way

Eric Maisel, PhD, is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. His nonfiction titles include Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, The Van Gogh Blues, The Creativity Book, Performance Anxiety, Ten Zen Seconds, A Writer?s San Francisco, and A Writer?s Paris. A columnist...

Datum: 07.03.2009 04:20 • Größe: 8.9 MB

170) Jerry A. Coyne - Why Evolution Is True

Jerry A. Coyne has been a professor at the University of Chicago in the department of ecology and evolution for twenty years. He specializes in evolutionary genetics and works predominantly on the origin of new species. He is a regular contributor to The New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, ...

Datum: 27.02.2009 05:03 • Größe: 8.7 MB

169) Norm Allen - Skepticism and Black History

Norm Allen is executive director of African Americans for Humanism, an educational organization primarily concerned with fostering critical thinking, ethical conduct, church-state separation, and skepticism toward untested claims to knowledge among African Americans. He is the editor of the ground-...

Datum: 20.02.2009 06:12 • Größe: 11 MB

168) Ronald A. Lindsay - The Future of The Center for Inquiry

Ronald A. Lindsay is a bioethicist, lawyer, and chief executive officer and senior research fellow of the Center for Inquiry. For many years he practiced law in Washington, DC, and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and American University, where he taught jurisprudence and philosophy...

Datum: 13.02.2009 05:36 • Größe: 11.4 MB

167) David J Linden - The Accidental Mind

David J. Linden, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular substrates of memory storage in the brain, among other topics. He has a longstanding interest in scientific communica...

Datum: 06.02.2009 19:12 • Größe: 10.9 MB

166) John W. Loftus - Why I Became an Atheist

John W. Loftus earned M.A. and M.Div. degrees in theology and philosophy from Lincoln Christian Seminary under the guidance of Dr. James D. Strauss. He then attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he studied under Dr. William Lane Craig and received a Th.M. degree in philosophy of religi...

Datum: 31.01.2009 04:37 • Größe: 11 MB

165) Kendrick Frazier - The Skeptical Inquirer

Kendrick Frazier has been the editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine for over 30 years. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers and the American Geophysical Union. In 2005, Frazier was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for "distinguished co...

Datum: 23.01.2009 06:38 • Größe: 7.7 MB

164) Christopher Burns- Deadly Decisions

Christopher Burns is one of the country's leading minds on modern information management. He has been a news executive and consultant to government and the private sector for thirty years, advising clients on emerging information management technologies and the evolution of the information economy. ...

Datum: 16.01.2009 06:42 • Größe: 8.7 MB

163) Ginger Campbell - Podcasting Neuroscience

Ginger Campbell, M.D., is an emergency physician whose long-standing interest in philosophy and science motivated her to begin podcasting in 2006. While her Brain Science Podcast focuses on neuroscience, her other show, Books and Ideas, often explores the intersection between science and religion. S...

Datum: 09.01.2009 05:41 • Größe: 10.2 MB

162) Simon Singh - Trick or Treatment

Simon Singh is an author focusing on science and mathematics for the general public. His books include Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem, The Code Book, and Big Bang. He has produced a number of documentaries for television on science topics, and is a...

Datum: 03.01.2009 01:40 • Größe: 12 MB

161) Tom Flynn - Science Fiction and Atheism

Tom Flynn is the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry, many addressing church-state issues, as well as the best-selling The Trouble With Christmas, about which he has made hundreds of radio and...

Datum: 26.12.2008 23:48 • Größe: 13.7 MB

160) Paul Kurtz - Forbidden Fruit

Paul Kurtz is the leading figure in the humanist and skeptical movements over the last four decades. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As chair of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for...

Datum: 20.12.2008 00:56 • Größe: 9.1 MB

159) Solomon Schimmel - Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

Solomon Schimmel is professor of Jewish education and psychology at Hebrew College. He is the author of a number of books, including The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology, and numerous articles and book chapters on Jewish thought, psychology of religi...

Datum: 13.12.2008 03:05 • Größe: 11.9 MB

158) Solomon Schimmel - The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs

Datum: 05.12.2008 05:26 • Größe: 9.4 MB

157) Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry, including The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology; Doubt: A History; The Happiness Myth, and her book of poetry, Funny, which Publisher?s Weekly called one of the most original...

Datum: 28.11.2008 18:34 • Größe: 12.6 MB

156) James McGaha - Lights in the Sky

James McGaha is a retired USAF pilot, astronomer and director of the Grasslands Observatory. He held a TOP SECRET compartmented security clearance and was involved in numerous classified operations including operations in the so-called "Area 51." His current work includes astrometry and photometry o...

Datum: 21.11.2008 08:29 • Größe: 12.1 MB

155) Peter Singer - Vegetarianism and the Scientific Outlook

One of the most controversial and influential philosophers alive today, Peter Singer is DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He writes a regular column for Free Inquiry magazine,...

Datum: 14.11.2008 17:25 • Größe: 9.8 MB

154) Peter Singer - Ethics in an Age of Darwin

Datum: 07.11.2008 17:04 • Größe: 11.8 MB

153) The 12th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

Harry Houdini, the world-famous magician and skeptic, sincerely explored the religion of spiritualism and communication with the dead after his beloved mother?s death in 1913. In this episode for Halloween 2008, Joe Nickell, the world?s leading paranormal investigator and the Committee for Skepti...

Datum: 01.11.2008 00:25 • Größe: 11 MB

152) Todd C. Riniolo - When Good Thinking Goes Bad

Todd C. Riniolo is an associate professor of psychology at Medaille College. He has written many peer-reviewed articles in the psychological literature. In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Todd Riniolo discusses his book When Good Thinking Goes Bad: How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own, exp...

Datum: 25.10.2008 02:35 • Größe: 11.1 MB

151) Edward Tabash - The U.S. Presidential Election and Secular Values Voters

Edward Tabash is a constitutional and civil rights lawyer in Beverly Hills, California. He has chaired the National Legal Committee of Americans United for Separation of Church and State since 1995, and has argued and won before the California Supreme Court. He also sits as a part-time judge for the...

Datum: 17.10.2008 13:00 • Größe: 11.1 MB

150) Lawrence M. Krauss - The Fear of Physics

Lawrence M. Krauss is Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Director of the new Origins Initiative at Arizona State University. He is an internationally famous theoretical physicist who focuses on the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and n...

Datum: 10.10.2008 06:04 • Größe: 8.7 MB

149) Michael Lackey - Science, Postmodernism, and the Varieties of Black Humanism

Michael Lackey teaches courses in twentieth-century American and African American literature at the University of Minnesota, Morris. A recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, he has published articles in many journals, including Philosophy and Literature, Journal of the History of Ideas,...

Datum: 03.10.2008 18:31 • Größe: 11.2 MB

148) Greg Long - The Making of Bigfoot

Greg Long is a professional writer, investigative journalist, and editor who lives in Washington state. He has been researching and writing about "mysteries" and unexplained phenomena of the Pacific Northwest for twenty-five years. His work has been featured on radio and television, including the Di...

Datum: 27.09.2008 01:40 • Größe: 9.9 MB

147) Justin Trottier - The Fight for Science and Reason on the Campuses

Justin Trottier is Executive Director of the Centre for Inquiry in Ontario, the first venue dedicated to secular humanists and freethinkers in Canada, and helps oversees CFI Communities in Calgary, Montreal and Vancouver. A former freethought campus activist, Justin co-hosts the student oriented Co...

Datum: 20.09.2008 00:25 • Größe: 7.7 MB

146) Andrew Fraknoi - The Cosmic History of Your Body

Andrew Fraknoi is the Chair of the Astronomy Program at Foothill College near San Francisco. In 2007, he was selected as Professor of the Year for the state of California by the Carnegie Endowment for Higher Education. For 14 years, Fraknoi served as the Executive Director of the Astronomical Societ...

Datum: 12.09.2008 19:23 • Größe: 10.2 MB

145) Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil

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 radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica,...

Datum: 06.09.2008 02:23 • Größe: 13.6 MB

144) Ronald A. Lindsay - Future Bioethics

Ronald A. Lindsay is a bioethicist, lawyer, and chief executive officer and senior research fellow of the Center for Inquiry. He is also executive director of the Council for Secular Humanism. For many years he practiced law in Washington, DC, and was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University ...

Datum: 30.08.2008 03:41 • Größe: 13.1 MB

143) Rev. Michael Dowd - The Marriage of Science and Religion

The Reverend Michael Dowd, along with his wife, science writer Connie Barlow, have lived permanently on the road for years, sharing a "sacred view of evolution" with religious and secular audiences of all ages. His new book is Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Tr...

Datum: 23.08.2008 02:14 • Größe: 10.9 MB

142) Rev. Michael Dowd - Thank God For Evolution

Datum: 15.08.2008 21:06 • Größe: 9.7 MB

141) Allan Mazur - Implausible Beliefs

Allan Mazur, a sociologist and an engineer, is professor of public affairs in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Previously a member of the social science faculties of MIT and Stanford University, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published ove...

Datum: 08.08.2008 23:53 • Größe: 11.6 MB

140) Guy P. Harrison - 50 Reasons People Give For Believing In A God

Guy P. Harrison is a graduate of the University of South Florida with degrees in history and anthropology. he currently lives in the Cayman Islands, where he is a columnist and travel writer for a national newspaper. He has won several international awards for his writing and photography. In this...

Datum: 02.08.2008 00:54 • Größe: 11.7 MB

139) Lewis Wolpert - The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

Lewis Wolpert is Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology of University College, London, focusing his research on the mechanisms involved in the development of the embryo. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the Royal Society of Literatu...

Datum: 25.07.2008 17:43 • Größe: 8.3 MB

138) Joe Nickell - Humanistic Skepticism

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 recently The Relics of the Christ.In this discus...

Datum: 19.07.2008 05:00 • Größe: 14.2 MB

137) Maggie Jackson - Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist who writes the popular ?Balancing Acts? column in the Boston Globe. Her work also has appeared in the New York Times and on National Public Radio, among other national publications. Her acclaimed first book, What?s Happening to Home? Balancing...

Datum: 12.07.2008 00:29 • Größe: 9.7 MB

136) Ben Radford - Paranormal Investigation

Datum: 04.07.2008 18:51 • Größe: 10.6 MB

135) PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris and the author of Pharyngula, the most heavily-trafficked science blog online.In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, P.Z. Myers details his expulsion from a screening of Expelled, Ben Stein's documentary which claim...

Datum: 28.06.2008 00:42 • Größe: 11.4 MB

134) PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris and the author of <i>Pharyngula</i>, the most heavily-trafficked science blog online. In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, P.Z. Myers explains the purpose and impact of his blog, and whether his prio...

Datum: 21.06.2008 02:28 • Größe: 9.1 MB

133) Susan Jacoby - The Age of American Unreason

Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. A prominent public intellectual, she frequently appears in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Free Inquiry. Her latest best selling book is The Age of American Unreason. In this conversat...

Datum: 13.06.2008 23:52 • Größe: 11.3 MB

132) Taner Edis - Science and Nonbelief

Taner Edis, born and raised in Turkey, is associate professor of physics at Truman State University and the author of The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science and Science and Non-belief, among other publications. His latest book is An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Isl...

Datum: 06.06.2008 15:26 • Größe: 14.1 MB

131) Robert M. Price - Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms

Robert M. Price is professor of theology and scriptural studies at Coleman Theological Seminary and professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute. He?s a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion and the Jesus Seminar. Dr. Price is the author of a numbe...

Datum: 31.05.2008 00:17 • Größe: 14.5 MB

130) Jamy Ian Swiss - Skepticism and the Art and Philosophy of Magic

Jamy Ian Swiss is universally considered one of the world?s top sleight of hand performers, famous to magicians for his subtlety, skill and depth of understanding of magic?s history. He has appeared on a number of television programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including on The Today Sh...

Datum: 24.05.2008 03:02 • Größe: 16.9 MB

129) Paul Kurtz - The Transnational Center for Inquiry

Paul Kurtz, considered by many the father of the secular humanist movement, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As chair of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, and Prome...

Datum: 16.05.2008 22:16 • Größe: 10.8 MB

128) Austin Dacey - Moral Values After Darwin

Datum: 10.05.2008 02:54 • Größe: 15.9 MB

127) Chris Hedges - I Dont Believe in Atheists

Chris Hedges is a journalist and author who focuses on American and Middle Eastern politics and society. He is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent ne...

Datum: 02.05.2008 23:10 • Größe: 13.1 MB

126) John Shook - Naturalism and the Scientific Outlook

John Shook is Vice President for Research and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University at Buffalo and was a professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University for six years. Among his current responsibilitie...

Datum: 26.04.2008 02:20 • Größe: 8.4 MB

125) Michael Shermer - The Mind of The Market

Michael Shermer is the author of ten books, including the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and The Science of Good and Evil. An adjunct professor of economics at Claremont Graduate University, he is a columnist for Scientific American, the publisher of Skeptic magazine, and the founder an...

Datum: 18.04.2008 23:01 • Größe: 9.1 MB

124) Tom Flynn - Ingersoll: The Most Famous Person You Have Never Heard Of

Tom Flynn is editor of Free Inquiry Magazine and director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. He also directs traditional video operations at the Center for Inquiry. He is editor of The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief and author of three books: the science-fiction novels Galactic Rapture a...

Datum: 12.04.2008 00:58 • Größe: 12.7 MB

123) Marc Hauser - Moral Minds

Marc Hauser is an evolutionary psychologist and biologist. He is Harvard College Professor and Professor of Psychology, and Director of the Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard University. He is the author of a number of books, including The Evolution of Communication, Wild Minds: Wh...

Datum: 04.04.2008 22:52 • Größe: 16.4 MB

122) Sir Harold Kroto - Science Education and Freethinking

Sir Harold Kroto, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Florida State University. He is a tireless science educator who gives lectures, presentations and workshops to groups of all ages with the aim of communicating his passion for sc...

Datum: 29.03.2008 02:30 • Größe: 12.1 MB

121) Austin Dacey - The Secular Conscience

Austin Dacey serves as a respresentative to the United Nations for CFI, and is also on the editorial staff of Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry magazines. His writings have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times. His new book is The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in...

Datum: 22.03.2008 00:36 • Größe: 13.3 MB

120) Norm Allen - African American Religiosity, Humanism, and Politics

Datum: 14.03.2008 19:34 • Größe: 10.6 MB

119) Robert M. Price - The Paperback Apocalypse

Datum: 07.03.2008 18:53 • Größe: 10.6 MB

118) Matthew C. Nisbet - Communicating about Science and Religion

Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., is a professor in the School of Communication at American University. His research tracks scientific and environmental controversies, examining the interactions between experts, journalists, and various publics. In this area, Nisbet has published numerous peer-reviewed stud...

Datum: 01.03.2008 00:54 • Größe: 10.8 MB

117) Tom Flynn - The Science vs. Religion Warfare Thesis

Datum: 22.02.2008 21:31 • Größe: 10.4 MB

116) Lynne Kelly - The Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal

Lynne Kelly is a writer and science educator in Australia, and a founding member of Australian Skeptics. An expert on the paranormal who uses aspects of the magicians art to advance skepticism, she holds degrees in education and engineering and is the author over a dozen books, including The Skepti...

Datum: 16.02.2008 02:37 • Größe: 12.1 MB

115) Tory Christman - Anti-Science Scientology?

Tory Christman is a former member of the Church of Scientology. She left the organization in 2000, after being a member for about 30 years and is now one of its most visible and high-profile critics, having appeared on CNN, NPR and in the LA Times, and many other media outlets.In this discussion wit...

Datum: 09.02.2008 00:08 • Größe: 12.9 MB

114) Edward Tabash - Science, Secularism, and the 2008 Presidential Election

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 year. He has chaired the National Legal Committe...

Datum: 01.02.2008 22:45 • Größe: 16.7 MB

113) John Allen Paulos - Irreligion

John Allen Paulos is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University. He has been celebrated as a writer and speaker about the importance of mathematical literacy, although he is also drawn to other related subjects, such as the mathematical basis of humor. He is the author of Innumeracy: Mathematical...

Datum: 26.01.2008 01:57 • Größe: 13 MB

112) Colin McGinn - Secular Philosophy and Skepticism

Colin McGinn, educated at Oxford University, is the author of sixteen previous books, including The Making of a Philosopher. He has written for the London Review of Books, The New Republic, the New York Times Book Review, and other publications. He has taught philosophy at University College of ...

Datum: 18.01.2008 22:43 • Größe: 11.9 MB

111) Aubrey de Grey - Ending Aging

Aubrey de Grey, PhD, is a biomedical gerontologist and Chairman and Chief Science Officer of The Methuselah Foundation. His major research interests are the role and etiology of all forms of cellular and molecular damage in mammalian aging, and the design of interventions to reverse the age-related ...

Datum: 11.01.2008 22:30 • Größe: 13.8 MB

110) Dr. Stephen Barrett - Watching Out for Quackery

Stephen Barrett, M.D. has achieved national renown as an author, editor, and consumer advocate. In addition to heading Quackwatch, he is vice-president of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health, and a Fellow of the Center for Inq...

Datum: 04.01.2008 22:12 • Größe: 11.5 MB

109) Lawrence Krauss - Seducing for Science

Lawrence M. Krauss is Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, Prof of Astronomy, and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University. The author of 7 popular books including international bestseller, The Physics of Star Trek, and the aw...

Datum: 28.12.2007 23:12 • Größe: 11.8 MB

108) Paul Kurtz - Ethics for the Nonreligious

Datum: 21.12.2007 23:02 • Größe: 15.2 MB

107) Student Freethought Leaders Speak Out

CFI supports a growing network of campus groups on about 200 campuses throughout North America and around the world. While this is a much smaller number than its "cultural competitors," with groups like Campus Crusade for Christ having an annual operating budget of $380 million, Center for Inquiry's...

Datum: 14.12.2007 23:50 • Größe: 12.6 MB

106) Richard Dawkins - Science and the New Atheism

Richard Dawkins, considered one of the world's most influential scientists, is the first holder of the Charles Simonyi professorship of the public understanding of science at Oxford University and the recipient of a number of awards for his writings and for his science, including the International C...

Datum: 08.12.2007 02:51 • Größe: 15.3 MB

105) Keith Stanovich - Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

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 psychology of reading, which explores what happens in the ...

Datum: 30.11.2007 23:23 • Größe: 14.3 MB

104) Richard Wiseman - Quirkology

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 the media, and has written over 60 academic articles ...

Datum: 23.11.2007 05:00 • Größe: 8.8 MB

103) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

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 publications, Dr Tyson is one of America?s most respected...

Datum: 16.11.2007 21:58 • Größe: 16.3 MB

102) Michael Behe - The Edge of Evolution

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 Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution and...

Datum: 08.11.2007 05:00 • Größe: 12.9 MB

101) The 11th Annual Houdini Seance at CFI

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 fraudulent mediums. In this episode, recorded on Hall...

Datum: 02.11.2007 21:40 • Größe: 14.2 MB

100) Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought

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 prizes from the American Psychological Association. ...

Datum: 26.10.2007 18:56 • Größe: 9 MB

99) Edward Tabash - Why There Really Is No God

Datum: 19.10.2007 21:10 • Größe: 12.2 MB

98) Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes

Datum: 15.10.2007 22:25 • Größe: 10.1 MB

97) Alan Dershowitz - Blasphemy

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 books include the New York Times bestsellers The ...

Datum: 05.10.2007 20:47 • Größe: 11.2 MB

96) Joe Nickell - The New Idolatry

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 recently The Relics of the Christ.In this conversa...

Datum: 28.09.2007 22:49 • Größe: 15.2 MB

95) Massimo Pigliucci - Making Sense of Evolution

Massimo Pigliucci is professor of Ecology and Evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is well known as an outspoken critic of creationism and advocate of the public understanding and appreciation of science. A recipient of the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study ...

Datum: 22.09.2007 01:42 • Größe: 12.8 MB

94) Paul Kurtz - The New Atheism and Secular Humanism

Datum: 14.09.2007 20:27 • Größe: 11.1 MB

93) Madeleine Van Hecke - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

Madeleine Van KHecke is a licensed clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at North College in Naperville, Illinois. She is a writer, and a lecturer and workshop leader for Open Arms Seminar. Her recent book is Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things.In this discussion with D.J. Gro...

Datum: 07.09.2007 21:15 • Größe: 10.9 MB

92) Dr. Francis Collins - The Language of God

Francis Collins is one of the world's leading scientists. He has been the longtime head of the Human Genome Project, the groundbreaking international effort to map and sequence all of the human DNA and then determine its functions. The Project is widely considered the most significant scientific und...

Datum: 31.08.2007 20:36 • Größe: 13 MB

91) Garrett G. Fagan - Archaeological Fantasies

Garrett G. Fagan is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Penn State University. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and McMaster University Canada. His main research interests lie in the field of Roman History, about which he?s published numerous scholarly arti...

Datum: 24.08.2007 20:09 • Größe: 13.7 MB

90) Chris Mooney - Storm World

Chris Mooney is an acclaimed writer who focuses on subjects at the intersection of science and politics. His writing has appeared in Wired, New Scientist, Free Inquiry, Skeptical Inquirer, Slate, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and The Boston Globe, and he has appeared widely in the...

Datum: 17.08.2007 19:42 • Größe: 9.6 MB

89) Peter H. Gilmore - Science and Satanism

Peter H. Gilmore is the High Priest of the Church of Satan. He has been interviewed on numerous television and radio programs dealing with the topic of Satanism, including spots on The History Channel, BBC, The Sci-Fi Channel, and Bob Larson's Christian radio show. In 1989, he and his wife Peggy Nad...

Datum: 10.08.2007 18:21 • Größe: 11.5 MB

88) Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made

Carol Tavris is a social psychologist, lecturer, and writer whose books include Anger and The Mismeasure of Woman. She has written on psychological topics for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Scientific American, Skeptical Inquiry, and many other publications. A Fellow of the American Psyc...

Datum: 03.08.2007 21:43 • Größe: 16.9 MB

87) Peter Irons - God on Trial

Peter Irons is professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego. A noted constitutional scholar, historian, and lawyer, he is the author of the bestselling May It Please the Court; The Battle for the Constitution; War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the...

Datum: 27.07.2007 22:30 • Größe: 12.2 MB

86) Ophelia Benson - Why Truth Matters

Ophelia Benson is the joint-author (with Jeremy Stangroom) of Why Truth Matters and The Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense, and Deputy Editor of The Philosophers' Magazine. In addition to maintaining the popular website butterfliesandwheels.com, she writes a monthly column for The Philosophers' Maga...

Datum: 20.07.2007 22:20 • Größe: 10 MB

85) Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

Philip Kitcher is the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. An eminent philosopher, he is the author of many books on science, literature, and music, including Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism; The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities; and S...

Datum: 13.07.2007 21:23 • Größe: 15.1 MB

84) Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great

Christopher Hitchens, one of the most celebrated social critics of our time, has been a columnist for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, The Nation, Slate and Free Inquiry. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including God is Not Great (2007), A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (200...

Datum: 06.07.2007 22:22 • Größe: 12.1 MB

83) Natalie Angier - The Canon

Natalie Anger is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist for the New York Times. Born in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, she studied physics and English at Barnard College, where she graduated with high honors in 1978. From 1980 to 1984, Angier wrote about biology for Discover Maga...

Datum: 29.06.2007 23:02 • Größe: 14.3 MB

82) Tom Clark - Encountering Naturalism

Tom Clark is founder and director of the Center For Naturalism, a non profit advocacy organization in the Boston area devoted to educating the public about naturalism, policy development, and community building. He is the editor of the popular online website, Naturalism.Org, which is among the web's...

Datum: 22.06.2007 22:03 • Größe: 10.2 MB

81) R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Jesus Project

Joe Hoffmann, formally at Oxford, is director of Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER). He has appeared widely in the media and at venues across the United States speaking on Christian origins, the historical Jesus, the proper role of religion in society, and similar topics. He...

Datum: 16.06.2007 00:54 • Größe: 12.3 MB

80) Chris Wisnia - Dr. DeBunko

Chris Wisnia has been involved with the comics self-publishing for several years. The creator of the celebrated comic books Tabloia, and Doris Danger Seeks Where Giant Monsters Creep, he also recently began a comic book with a decidedly skeptical theme titled Dr. DeBunko, which features a character ...

Datum: 08.06.2007 21:22 • Größe: 8.2 MB

79) David Triggle - Science and the Public

David Triggle is distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and president of the Center for Inquiry Institute. He is the author and editor of several books dealing with the autonomic nervous system and drug-receptor interactions, some two hundred and fifty research papers...

Datum: 01.06.2007 18:52 • Größe: 11.4 MB

78) Jennifer Michael Hecht - The Happiness Myth

Jennifer Michael Hecht is the author of award-winning books of philosophy, history, and poetry. Her Doubt: A History (HarperCollins, 2003) demonstrates a long, strong history of religious doubt from the origins of written history to the present day, all over the world. Hecht's The End of the Soul: S...

Datum: 25.05.2007 21:44 • Größe: 13 MB

77) David Koepsell - Why Secular Humanism?

David Koepsell is the Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism, North America's leading organization for nonreligious people. An author, philosopher and an attorney, David's work focuses mostly on the nexus of science, technology, ethics and public policy. In this discussion with D....

Datum: 18.05.2007 14:53 • Größe: 9.8 MB

76) Joe Nickell - The Relics of the Christ

The world?s leading paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell is a regular contributor to Skeptical Inquiry science magazine. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983, 1998) and most recently, The Relics of the Christ (2007).In this discu...

Datum: 12.05.2007 01:41 • Größe: 12.5 MB

75) Hemant Mehta - I Sold My Soul on Ebay

Hemant Mehta is an honors graduate from the university of Illinois, and has been involved in secularist student activism for years. Early on, he attended one of CFI's summer sessions on scholarship, becoming that year's student volunteer president of CFI's campus outreach program. He is now in grad...

Datum: 04.05.2007 23:29 • Größe: 9.7 MB

74) Taner Edis - Science and Religion in Islam

Datum: 27.04.2007 21:53 • Größe: 8.5 MB

73) Matthew C. Nisbet - Selling Science to the Public

Datum: 21.04.2007 00:52 • Größe: 15.3 MB

72) Phil Plait - The Bad Astronomer

Phil Plait works in the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University. In the early '90's, he started Badastronomy.com, which has become a popular website focused on educating the public about astronomy and space science, especially as regards common misconceptions and pseudoscientific...

Datum: 13.04.2007 04:47 • Größe: 13.3 MB

71) Joe Nickell - Debunking in Hollywood?

The world's leading paranormal investigator, Joe Nickell is a regular contributor to Skeptical Inquiry science magazine. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books, including Inquest on the Shroud of Turin (1983, 1998) and most recently, The Relics of the Christ (2007). In this conversa...

Datum: 06.04.2007 19:38 • Größe: 11.7 MB

70) Nica Lalli - Nothing: Something to Believe In

Nica Lalli is an art educator working with the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also writes a weekly column in the Brooklyn Paper. In this discussion with D.J. Grothe, Nica talks about her new and acclaimed memoir of growing up nonreligious, Nothing: Something to Believe In. She also explores how ...

Datum: 31.03.2007 00:42 • Größe: 10 MB

69) Susan Haack - Defending Science -- Within Reason

Susan Haack, formerly Fellow of New Hall, Cambridge, and then professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, is presently Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami. Her areas of interest include philosophy of logic and...

Datum: 23.03.2007 23:36 • Größe: 12.7 MB

68) Tawfik Hamid - My Life as a Muslim Terrorist

Tawfik Hamid, an expert on Islamic terrorism, joined the Islamic group Muslim GI in Egypt, while in medical school. His colleagues in the terror movement included Al Zawaherri, then a friend with whom Tawfik used to pray, and now the number 2 person of Al Qaeda. Eventually Dr. Hamid questioned the ...

Datum: 17.03.2007 02:47 • Größe: 13 MB

67) Robert M. Price - Jesus: The Failed Hypothesis

Robert M. Price is professor of theology and scriptural studies at Coleman Theological Seminary and professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute. He's a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion and the Jesus Seminar. Dr. Price is the author of a numbe...

Datum: 09.03.2007 23:41 • Größe: 14 MB

66) Victor Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis

Victor Stenger is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is also founder and president of Colorado Citizens for Science. He's held visiting faculty positions at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, and at Ox...

Datum: 03.03.2007 00:13 • Größe: 19.1 MB

65) Steven Pinker - Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature

Steven Pinker, a renowned research psychologist, 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 prizes from the American Psychological Association. He has also received several hon...

Datum: 23.02.2007 21:55 • Größe: 12.9 MB

64) Barbara Forrest - The Wedge of Intelligent Design

Barbara Forrest is a philosopher and public intellectual at Southeastern Louisiana University. Widely praised for her compelling expert testimony in the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, she is a tireless defender of science education and the teaching of evolution in U.S. public s...

Datum: 16.02.2007 22:33 • Größe: 11.5 MB

63) Peter Singer - The Way We Eat

Peter Singer has been called "the world's most influential living philosopher," by The New Yorker and Time Magazine listed him in "The Time 100," their annual listing of the world's 100 most influential people. One of the most controversial philosophers alive today, he is DeCamp Professor of Bioet...

Datum: 09.02.2007 16:41 • Größe: 13.1 MB

62) Solomon Schimmel - Specious Proofs for Quranic Divinity

Solomon Schimmel is a psychologist of religion and Professor of Jewish Education and Psychology at Hebrew College. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University and has lectured widely throughout the world. An expert on the psychology of forgiveness and ...

Datum: 02.02.2007 22:52 • Größe: 19.3 MB

61) Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole

Datum: 26.01.2007 05:22 • Größe: 10.7 MB

60) John Shook - Scientific Naturalism and its Discontents

John Shook is Vice President for Research and Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry Transnational in Amherst, N.Y. He received his PhD in philosophy at the University at Buffalo and was a professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University for six years. His research and writing focuses on Amer...

Datum: 20.01.2007 01:29 • Größe: 12.4 MB

59) Eugene Burger - Magic and Mystery

Eugene Burger, "universally recognized as perhaps the finest close-up magician in the world," (Stagebill magazine) has written fifteen best-selling books for magicians, starred in a number of instructional videos, lectured widely to magicians' groups in over a dozen countries, and his writings have ...

Datum: 12.01.2007 22:22 • Größe: 10.4 MB

58) Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan and The Varieties of Scientific Experience

Ann Druyan is an author, public lecturer, and TV and movie writer and producer whose work focuses on the worldview of science. She is the widow of Carl Sagan, the great astronomer and public advocate of science and reason. With him, she co-wrote the Emmy Award Winning and the Peabody Award Winning t...

Datum: 06.01.2007 01:47 • Größe: 15.5 MB

57) R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Scientific Study of Religion

Datum: 29.12.2006 17:55 • Größe: 12.3 MB

56) Tom Flynn - The Real War on Christmas

Datum: 22.12.2006 21:54 • Größe: 10.7 MB

55) Susan Blackmore - In Search of the Light

Sue Blackmore is a psychologist and writer whose research on consciousness, memes, and the paranormal has been published in over sixty academic papers, as well as book chapters, reviews and popular articles. She regularly writes in the Guardian, and often appears on radio and television in the Unit...

Datum: 15.12.2006 20:07 • Größe: 13.4 MB

54) Paul Kurtz - What is the Point of Inquiry

In this special episode of Point of Inquiry, Paul Kurtz joins D.J. Grothe for an overview of CFI's mission and challenges. Kurtz is founder and chair of the Center for Inquiry and many other organizations and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also Professo...

Datum: 08.12.2006 06:02 • Größe: 14.2 MB

53) Barry Kosmin - The Scientific Study of Secularism

Barry Kosmin is a sociologist, and is research professor in public policy and law at Trinity College. He is co-author of One Nation Under God and author of Religion in a Free Market. Kosmin was also the Principal investigator of the 2001 American Religious Identification Survey, the groundbreaking s...

Datum: 02.12.2006 01:52 • Größe: 12.5 MB

52) Norm Allen - Science, Humanism, and the Black Community

Datum: 24.11.2006 06:11 • Größe: 13.8 MB

51) Michelle Goldberg - Kingdom Coming

Michelle Goldberg is a freelance writer who has reported from all over the United States, as well as from Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel and the West Bank. In her writing, she focuses on the role of ideology in politics, and has reported extensively on both sides of America's intensifying culture wars....

Datum: 18.11.2006 04:59 • Größe: 15.1 MB

50) Richard Wiseman - Theatre of Science

Psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman started his working life as a professional magician and currently holds Britain's only Professorship in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. He frequently appears in the media, and has written over 60 academic articles and ...

Datum: 10.11.2006 23:38 • Größe: 9.5 MB

49) Chris Mooney - Science, Politics, and the Midterm Election

Chris Mooney is an acclaimed writer about subjects at intersection of science and politics. His writing has appeared in Wired, New Scientist, Free Inquiry, Skeptical Inquirer, Slate, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and The Boston Globe, and he has appeared widely in the media, on pr...

Datum: 04.11.2006 03:45 • Größe: 11.3 MB

48) The CFI 10th Annual Houdini Seance - Halloween 2006

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. He eventually crusaded vigorously against those whom he believed were fraudulent mediums, debunking and exposing those...

Datum: 01.11.2006 00:26 • Größe: 6.3 MB

47) Salman Rushdie - Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism

Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian essayist and novelist widely acclaimed for his narrative style that blends myth and fantasy with real life. He has won many awards for his fiction, including the Booker Prize. He is best known for The Satanic Verses which provoked violent reaction from the Muslim c...

Datum: 28.10.2006 06:10 • Größe: 23 MB

46) Jill Tarter - Are We Alone?

Jill Tarter holds the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA where she also serves as director of the Center for SETI Research. She served as Project Scientist for NASA?s SETI program, and has conducted a number of obser...

Datum: 21.10.2006 00:17 • Größe: 14.6 MB

45) Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

Datum: 16.10.2006 21:47 • Größe: 17 MB

44) Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times best-seller The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason. He is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty...

Datum: 07.10.2006 02:56 • Größe: 17.8 MB

43) Robert M. Price - The Reason Driven Life

Datum: 29.09.2006 21:59 • Größe: 17.4 MB

42) Michael Shermer - Why Darwin Matters

Michael Shermer is one of the most well-known skeptics in America. He is a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Scientific American, and is the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech. He is also the co-host and producer of the Fox Family TV show, Exploring the Unknown....

Datum: 22.09.2006 22:56 • Größe: 14.7 MB

41) Ann Druyan - Science, Wonder, and Spirituality

Ann Druyan is a renowned author, lecturer, and television and motion picture writer/producer whose work mostly explores the implications of science and technology for our society. She is the widow of the great Carl Sagan with whom she was a co-writer of the Emmy and Peabody Award winning television ...

Datum: 15.09.2006 20:36 • Größe: 35.7 MB

40) Paul Kurtz - World War and World Religions

Datum: 08.09.2006 23:52 • Größe: 14.2 MB

39) Amy-Jill Levine - Who Was Jesus of Nazareth

Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where she also holds the position of Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality. Her many books, articles, and essays address topics like Christi...

Datum: 01.09.2006 21:43 • Größe: 15.5 MB

38) Joe Nickell - Ancient Astronauts and the Nazca Lines

Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow for CSICOP, is considered the world's leading paranormal investigator. A former professional stage magician and private investigator, he has used his varied background to investigate myths and mysteries, frauds, forgeries, and hoaxes. He has been called "the moder...

Datum: 26.08.2006 00:27 • Größe: 20.6 MB

37) Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Sky Is Not the Limit

Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of America's superstars of science, focuses his research on star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. In addition to dozens of scholarly publications, Dr. Tyson is one of America's most eloquent and popular scienc...

Datum: 18.08.2006 04:31 • Größe: 27.7 MB

36) Eugene Straus, M.D. - Medical Marvels, Compassion, and Skepticism

Eugene Straus, M.D., is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine. He's also served as a senior faculty member at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In these positions, he direc...

Datum: 11.08.2006 22:48 • Größe: 17.8 MB

35) Bill Cooke - Is Scientific Humanism Anti-Religious?

Bill Cooke, former international director for the Center for Inquiry, is a senior lecturer at the School of Visual Arts at University of Auckland at Manukau. He is a fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion and now serves as CFI's Asia/Pacific coordinator. He is an acknowle...

Datum: 04.08.2006 20:51 • Größe: 15.6 MB

34) Derek Araujo - A Decade of Campus Freethought Activism

Derek Araujo was one of the founders and the first student president of the Campus Freethought Alliance in 1996. At the time he was attending Harvard College where he also founded the Harvard Secular Society before graduating magna cum laude in 1999. Mr. Araujo has since received a J.D., cum laude, ...

Datum: 28.07.2006 21:12 • Größe: 23.1 MB

33) Barry Beyerstein - The Sins of Big Pharma

Barry Beyerstein is Professor of Psychology and a member of the Brain Behaviour Laboratory at Simon Fraser University. His research has involved many areas related to his primary scholarly interests: brain mechanisms of perception and consciousness and the effects of drugs on the brain and mind. His...

Datum: 22.07.2006 01:14 • Größe: 14.8 MB

32) Thomas Kida - Dont Believe Everything You Think

Thomas Kida is a professor in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of many articles on decision-making. For the last 25 years he has been researching and teaching how we form our beliefs and make decisions. His new book, Don't Believe Everyth...

Datum: 15.07.2006 02:31 • Größe: 17.6 MB

31) Paul Kurtz - The Courage to Become

Paul Kurtz, considered the father of the secular humanist movement and a founder of the worldwide skeptic movement, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As chair of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the...

Datum: 08.07.2006 03:54 • Größe: 14.1 MB

30) James Randi - Science, Magic, and Future of Skepticism

James "The Amazing" Randi is a world-renowned magician, skeptic and investigator of paranormal claims. He has been a central figure in the development of the world-wide skeptical movement. He's perhaps most known for the One Million Dollar Challenge, in which his Foundation will award One Million Do...

Datum: 30.06.2006 15:39 • Größe: 21 MB

29) Tom Flynn - The Rise of the Non-Religious

Tom Flynn is the Editor of Free Inquiry magazine. A journalist, novelist, entertainer, and folklorist, Flynn is the author of numerous articles for Free Inquiry magazine, many addressing church-state issues, as well as The Trouble With Christmas, and has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances in ...

Datum: 23.06.2006 23:35 • Größe: 14.4 MB

28) Jerry Coyne - The Case Against Intelligent Design

Jerry Coyne is a professor in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago, where he works on diverse areas of evolutionary genetics. The main focus of his laboratory is on the original problem raised by Darwin - the origin of species - and on understanding this process throu...

Datum: 16.06.2006 20:57 • Größe: 17 MB

27) Cathleen Falsani - The God Factor

Cathleen Falsani is the religion reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, where she has covered spirituality and popular culture from Vatican City, Ireland, the White House, the Playboy Mansion and the dugout at Wrigley Field. In her first book, The God Factor, she recounts her discussions about God and ...

Datum: 09.06.2006 23:48 • Größe: 15.4 MB

26) Joe Nickell - Psychic Detectives

Datum: 03.06.2006 03:33 • Größe: 16.5 MB

25) R. Joseph Hoffmann - Examining The Da Vinci Code

Joe Hoffmann is Campbell Professor of Religion and Human Values at Wells College, New York and chair of the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion (CSER) at the Center for Inquiry. He is formerly Professor of Civilization Studies at American University of Beirut and Senior Research Sch...

Datum: 26.05.2006 23:03 • Größe: 15.8 MB

24) Matt Nisbet - Framing Science

Matt Nisbet is assistant professor in the school of communication at the Ohio State University. He focuses on the intersections between science, media, and politics, tracking how political strategists, scientists, and the news media selectively define science in ways that shape policy decisions, pub...

Datum: 20.05.2006 02:22 • Größe: 16.6 MB

23) Paul Kurtz - Science and Planetary Ethics

Datum: 12.05.2006 04:04 • Größe: 14 MB

22) Edward Tabash - True Meaning of Church/State Separation

Datum: 05.05.2006 04:53 • Größe: 17.9 MB

21) Eugenie Scott - Evolution vs. Religious Belief?

Eugenie Scott, a physical anthropologist, has been the director of the National Center for Science Education for nearly 20 years. A former president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she is one of the nat...

Datum: 29.04.2006 01:02 • Größe: 17.7 MB

20) Bill Nye - Changing The World With Science Education

Bill Nye is one of America's leading popularizers of the scientific outlook. As a scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, he hosted Bill Nye The Science Guy, which earned 28 Emmys during its six year run. He is the author of a number of children's books about science and regularly lect...

Datum: 21.04.2006 18:22 • Größe: 12.4 MB

19) Sam Harris - The Mortal Dangers of Religion

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. Mr. Harris is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, fo...

Datum: 14.04.2006 21:53 • Größe: 15.2 MB

18) Sam Harris - The End of Faith

Datum: 07.04.2006 16:21 • Größe: 11.9 MB

17) Herbert Hauptman - The Joy of Science

Herbert Hauptman is winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering a mathematical model for determining the molecular structures of crystallized materials. This work has proved to be of the greatest importance because it relates molecular structure to biological activity, and allows for a bet...

Datum: 31.03.2006 23:46 • Größe: 10.4 MB

16) Jamy Ian Swiss - Psychics, Science, and Magic

Jamy Ian Swiss is universally considered one of the world's top sleight of hand performers, famous to magicians for his subtlety, skill and depth of understanding of magic's history. He has made numerous television appearances in the United States, Europe, and Japan, including on The Today Show, CBS...

Datum: 24.03.2006 23:43 • Größe: 13.2 MB

15) Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, now in its tenth hardcover printing and recently published in paperback. Freethinkers was hailed in the New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work that seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of poste...

Datum: 17.03.2006 22:31 • Größe: 13.3 MB

14) Paul Kurtz - Skepticism of the Third Kind

Datum: 11.03.2006 02:33 • Größe: 12.9 MB

13) Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell

Daniel Dennett, the author of such groundbreaking and influential books as Consciousness Explained and Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life (which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), is famous for being a philosophical gadfly, challenging unexam...

Datum: 03.03.2006 21:13 • Größe: 26 MB

12) Dr. Wallace Sampson - Science Meets Alternative Medicine

Dr. Wallace Sampson serves as editor of The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine and is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Council Against Health Fraud. He has served as Chief of Medical Oncology at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and is clinical Professor Emeritus of Med...

Datum: 25.02.2006 03:14 • Größe: 33.1 MB

11) Joe Nickell - Aliens and Abductions

Datum: 18.02.2006 03:35 • Größe: 37.4 MB

10) Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil?

Richard Dawkins is professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University. The recipient of a number of awards for his writing on science, including the Royal Society of Literature Award and the LA Times Literary Prize, he has also been awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Award ...

Datum: 11.02.2006 00:59 • Größe: 57.9 MB

9) Marci Hamilton - Religion and the Rule of Law

Marci Hamilton is a distinguished constitutional law professor at Cordozo School of Law and is the author of the critically acclaimed book God vs. The Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law. She has appeared widely in the media, on shows such as The O'Reilly Factor and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. ...

Datum: 04.02.2006 02:36 • Größe: 41.2 MB

8) Chris Mooney - The Republican War on Science

Chris Mooney, a Washington correspondent for Seed magazine, a senior correspondent for the American Prospect, and a columnist for Skeptical Inquirer magazine, focuses on issues at the intersection of science and politics in his reporting. He has contributed to a number of other publications over the...

Datum: 28.01.2006 02:52 • Größe: 39.2 MB

7) Eugenie Scott - The Dover Trial: Evolution vs. Intelligent Design

Datum: 20.01.2006 22:54 • Größe: 37.4 MB

6) Max Maven - Magic and Skepticism

The great movie director Orson Welles wrote that Max Maven has "the most creative mind in magic." The New York Times observed that his "category-defying mind-reading veers into conceptual art." The Los Angeles Times stated that his "improvisational skill is enhanced by a charismatic animal magnetism...

Datum: 13.01.2006 12:14 • Größe: 34.3 MB

5) Ibn Warraq - Why I Am Not a Muslim

Ibn Warraq is the author of a number of books, including Why I Am Not A Muslim, considered among the most important critical looks at the negative aspects of Islam today. He is an outspoken critic of Islam who has written extensively on what he views as the oppressive nature of Islam and religion in...

Datum: 06.01.2006 23:53 • Größe: 33.5 MB

4) Susan Jacoby - The History of American Secularism

Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, now in its tenth hardcover printing and recently published in paperback. Freethinkers was hailed in the New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work" that "seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of pos...

Datum: 31.12.2005 01:36 • Größe: 38.2 MB

3) Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

Andrew Skolnick, Executive Director of the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, is a nationally renowned science journalist who has won numerous national awards and honors for his reporting in biology, medicine, and human rights. Among those honors are Amnesty International USA's Sp...

Datum: 23.12.2005 23:23 • Größe: 34.8 MB

2) Joe Nickell - Skeptical Inquiry vs. Debunking

Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow for CSICOP, is considered the world's leading paranormal investigator. A former professional stage magician and private investigator, he taught at the University of Kentucky before joining CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Par...

Datum: 16.12.2005 22:51 • Größe: 32.2 MB

1) Paul Kurtz - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?

Paul Kurtz, considered the father of the modern secular humanist movement, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As chair of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), the Council for Secular Humanism, and Promet...

Datum: 11.12.2005 23:54 • Größe: 70.7 MB