CiTR -- Radio Freethinkers
by CiTR & Discorder Magazine
Join Don as he explore the world with a skeptical eye. It's the show that applies skepticism and critical thinking to everyday issues. The place where reason and reality cross swords with politics, religion, economics and of course science. Join us each week, subscribe to our podcast and get ready to be skeptical.
Episodes
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RFT - ReCast - An Old show
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RFT - Ep 362 - The Top Science of 2016 Edition
This Week: - My top science stories of 2016 - Top science stories of 2016 from Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/top-science-stories-2016 - Top science stories of 2016 from SciShow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzdhNX6b01I - Top science stories of 2016 from SciShow Space...
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RFT - Ep 361 - The Guaranteed Journalism Edition
This week's web wisdom: - Are We The Only Humans? -Think Fact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJY3q3cNMWU - A Brief History of Everything - Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KYTJ8tBoZ8 - The Case for a Universal Basic Income - The RSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkO2CwLWRvg…
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RFT - Ep360 - The Psychopath Edition
This weeks web wisdom: - Strange answers to the psychopath test by Jon Ronson - Epistemology: The Problem of Skepticism by Jennifer Nagel - History of Prohibition: Why It Failed by KnowledgeHub - Why Can't You Sleep? by Thoughty2 - and, Is Aspartame Bad for You? by Today I Found Out
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RFT - Ep359 - the Fallout Philosophy Edition
This week's web wisdom: - The Philosophy of FALLOUT 4 – Wisecrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-4sihVgF2Y - Should the Rich Help the Poor? - Philosophy Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXanBiNxt4Y - Who Gets the Royalties for Hitler's Book? - Today I Found Out...
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RFT - Ep358 - Election 2016 Autopsy Edition
This week a take down about how Donald Trump won the US Presidential election, how Hillary Clinton lost it and who stands to gain from a Trump win.
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RFT - Recast - Ep 279 - Santa VS Jesus
This Week: - Why Christmas is better for non-believer than believers,A flash back with Christmas reality check, - Humanism and Christmas, and - A cavalcade of Christmas music from Scientific Songs of Praise > Oh Chemistry > Single Cells > Solar Light > Tectonic Plates > Oh Satellite
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RFT ReCast - Ep 320 - The Buyer Beware Edition
This Week: - The psychology of shopping - The Compromise effect - The Reality of Boxing Day - When less cost more and - A lot more on tricks retailers use to get your money.
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RFT - Recast - Ep 315 The Juvenoia Edition
This Week's Webs Wisdom: Juvenoia - Vsauce, Why we hate cheap thing - The School of Life, Debunking Exoplanets - PBS Space Time, A history of Robotics - SciShow,and Periodic Table Song - ASAPScience.
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RFT - Ep 357 - Feels Like The End Of The World Edition
This Week: Thought about the Trump Election, Web Wisdom: - What Does Dark Energy Really Do? - Did Dark Energy Just Disappear? - Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR - Weapons of Math Destruction - Talk by Cathy O'Neil Notes: Link to the Math Equation:...
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RFT - Ep 356 - Lanour Coop Edition
This week some web wisdom on unions and the power of coops: - On Wealth and Labor - Progressive Faith Sermons www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gkejN5WSnU - The social and ecological benefits of sharing the load - Economic Update...
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RFT - Ep 355 - The Presidential Edition
This week we take a deep dive into how one becomes President of the United States...how much power does the president really have. We close the show with some web wisdom from Crash Course Government and Politics: - Political Parties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEmOUHxessE - Party Systems...
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RFT - Ep354 - The Biased Algorithm Edition
The School of Life - History: Consumerism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Unq3R--M0 10 RSA Animate - Economics is for Everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbbcO35arw 11/49 James Gleick on Big Think - Time Travel in Science Fiction: A Brief History…
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RFT - ReCast - Ep 277 - Let's go GMO Edition
This week: A whine about the threat of AI to the future of humanity... Also, everything you need to know about GMO - We cover the basics of genetics... - How we have manipulated the genome of plants and animals for countless millenniums... - How are GMO type foods evaluated... - How anti-GMO is...
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RFT ReCast - Ep 241 - Debating God Edition
Don's Rant turned into a primer and tutorial about how to debate a charismatic christian apologist. Having listened to a debate between an Atheist and an Apologist on the topic "Is it rational to believe in god". However quickly the Apologist changed the question to "What is a rational belief"…
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RFT - Ep 353 - The Saint Teresa Edition
This week web wisdom: How Words Can Harm - Crash Course Philosophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESU5ONMMxs We Are Built To Be Kind - Fig. 1 by University of California https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWs6bf7tvI Medical Device Failure, and How Data Can Help Us Prevent It - Healthcare Triage...
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RFT - Ep352 - The Bathroom Bill Edition
This week we are joined by one of our irregular regulars, Gulid who wants to know what's up with Bathroom bills south of the boarder. WE also take a deep dive into the concept of gender...what is it, why is it and just what does it really mean.
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RFT - Ep 351 - The No Man Sky Edition
This Week's Web Wisdom : - No Man’s Sky: A Simulation Inside a Simulation? - PBS Idea Channel - Why you think you're right, even if you're wrong - Julia Galef - Racial Ontology - Wireless Philosophy - Naturalist Theories of Race - Wireless Philosophy - What is a Sociohistorical construct…
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RFT - Ep 249 - The TV Philosophy
This weeks web wisdom from Wisecrack - The philosophy of Star Trek - The philosophy of The Simpsons - The philosophy of Rick and Morty - The philosophy of Fallout
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RFT – Ep 348 – The Ameripox Edition
This Week’s Web Wisdom : - Americapox – The Missing Plague – CGP Grey - Zebra vs Horses- Animal Domestication – CGP Grey - Is Most Published Research Wrong – Veritasium - How DOES The Media Tell You What To Think – PBS Idea Channel - Questions No One Knows the Answers to – Chris Anderson, and -...
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RFT – no show due to technical issues
Note - Due to techincal issue, CiTR's podcast of todays show was lost. You can listen to it at this link: https://radiofreethinker.com/listen-now/ This Week’s Web Wisdom : - Americapox – The Missing Plague – CGP Grey - Zebra vs Horses- Animal Domestication – CGP Grey - Is Most Published Research...
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RFT – Ep 347 – The Flash Back Doping Edition
This Week some recasts: - The Purple-Pee Olympics - Lance Armstrong and professional doping. And some Web Wisdom from the Last Week Tonight about Doping and the Olympics
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RFT – Ep 346 – The Post BrExit Edition
This Week’s : We examine the fallout of the BrExit win in the UK… What happened, what happens next and what are the possible out comes of the UK leaving the EU. BrExit Models And some Web Wisdom from the Real News Network: - 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio Eclipsed By Controversy, and - Italian...
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RFT - Ep 345 - The Pride 2016 Edition
This Week's Web Wisdom : - There is progress - Dan Savage - Reacts to 'thoughts and prayers' after Orlando - Barbara Herr - Every time i check myself - Panti Bliss - The Stonewall Riots Explained - Keith Hughes - Stonewall Veterans Talk - Gwist, and - The Gay Pride Rainbow Flag - Calum McSwiggan
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RFT – Ep 344 – The Super Task Edition
This Week’s Web Wisdom : - 6 Things That Changed The Way You Eat – Thoughty2 - How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity – Kurzgesagt - 10 Things We Didn’t Know 100 Years Ago – SciShow – - Supertasks – Vsauce - What’s the Deal with E-cigarettes and Vaping? – Healthcare Triage, and - What to Do about...
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RFT - Ep 343 - The Electric BrExit Edition
This week's mix: - BeExit and the lack of leadership - Prairie Corespondent - What is Electricity? And a collection of SciShow clips - North American Mega Drought - 5 most important molecules in your body - Cryptography: The Science of Making and Breaking Codes, and - Sleep: Why We Need It and…
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RFT – Ep 342 – The Mighty Ant Edition
This Web Wisdom Week: - History of Ideas - Religion – The School of Life - - Is Science Reliable? – SciShow - - Why are GMOs Bad? – SciShow - - Widely Believed Animal Facts That Are Completely Wrong – TopTenz - - Top 10 Awesome Facts You Didn't Know About Ants – TopTenz, and - 25 Towns that…
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RFT – Ep 341 – The Human Origins Edition
This Web Wisdom Week: - What Happened Before History- Human Origins – Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - The Sixth Extinction – It’s Okay To Be Smart - The Problem with Time & Timezones – Computerphile - AI Self Improvement – Computerphile - Would You Buy a Car That’s Programmed to Kill You – Big…
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RFT - Ep 340 - The Orlando Solidarity Edition
This Web Wisdom Week: - Orlando - John Green - How Common Are Gay Animals? - DNews - Rituals - History of Ideas - What "Orwellian" really means - Noah Tavlin - What makes something "Kafkaesque"? - Noah Tavlin - 5 Chemicals That Are in (Almost) Everything You Eat - SciShow - 10 Surprising…
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RFT - Ep 339 -The BrExit Edition
This Week: We look at the UK choice to stay or leave the EU.
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RFT - Ep 338 - Click Bait Headlines Edition
This Web Wisdom Week: Click Bait Health Headlines - Health Care Triach Why we collect things - VSause The failure of the three rules of robotics - Computerphile The Dangers of AI = Computerphile Are we ready for aliens - VSause, and Why people make their own language - Xidnaf
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RFT - Ep 338- Click Bait Headlines Edition
This Web Wisdom Week: - Click Bait Health Headlines - Health Care Triach - Why we collect things - VSause - The failure of the three rules of robotics - Computerphile - The Dangers of AI = Computerphile - Are we ready for aliens - VSause, and - Why people make their own language - Xidnaf
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RFT - Ep 337 - The Apollo Hoax Edition
This Week: Something new - de-Conspiracy Theory...we start with a look at the motivations, evidence and validity of the claim that the moon landing was faked. we also have some web wisdom about why we procrastinate... Also, a new virtual co-host...Hal, the AI
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RFT - ReCast - Ep 299 – The Josh Asked Edition
This Week: Do aliens exist? What are the criteria for life What are correlates for life What’s so special about carbon and water Snowball Earth How do we detect exoplanets and their types What is intelligent aliens life The Fermi Paradox Life in our solar system (Europe, etc) Risks of Aliens Our...
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RFT - ReCast - Ep 274 – Mental Health Edition
This week a special show with guest Matt Harvey. We take look at the way popular media portrays and stigmatized mental illness… The disconnect between the reality of mental illness and the fictional account we all assume it true... Matt shares a very personal and inspirational story of being...
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RFT - ReCast - Ep 277 - The GMO and You Edition
This week a whine about the threat of AI to the future of humanity... Also, everything you need to know about GMO - We cover the basics of genetics... - How we have manipulated the genome of plants and animals for countless millenniums... - How are GMO type foods evaluated... - How anti-GMO is...
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RFT - Ep 336 - Return of the Humanist Edition
This week: - Interview with BC Humanist Association's Executive Director, Ian Bushfield… > What is Humanism? > Why a secular society if important? > What campaigns are they perusing? - The surprising reason you feel awful when you're sick from TED-Ed, and - IF - from VSause…
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RFT - Ep 335 - The Relativistic Gravity Edition
This Week: - Where is outer space - Laser powered space ships - Gravity Waves - Black Hole twins - The prairie correspondent on censorship - Who invented the internet and - Who owns the moon...
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RFT - Ep 334 - The Atheist Comedy Stand Up Edition
This week a cavalcade of web humour as we fill our plates with Atheist stand up comedy: - Ricky Gervais - The Bible - George Carlin - Religion is Bullshit - Tim Minchin - Spiritualism and feet - Dave Allen - religious jokes for the decades past - Lewis Black - Creationism and The Old Testament…
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RFT - Ep 333 - The Brazilian Coup Edition
This week's : The Brussels terrorist attack...integration vs surveillance. Brazil's political unrest and the possibilities of a coup-d'etat, and When is it valid to overthrow a democratic government?
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RFT - Ep 332 - The Lost Voice Edition
Note to listeners...due to illness, i was forced to record portions of this episode with an artificial voice. I hope you find it a novity and an example of how far technology has come. On this weeks show: - Anarchically Science - is Rick, of Rick & Morty, an ideal scientist? - The Ideas Channel -...
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RFT - Ep 231 - The Self Driving Car Crash Edition
Joining us again is Matt. This week - AI and what you need to know - Meteorite murders - Twins and space, and - Fukushima 5 years later.
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RFT - Ep 330 - The Mussolini Trump Edition Edition
This week a collection of web wisdom This week: - Escalating aggression marks Trump's rally rhetoric - Rachiel Maddows Show - Trump finds political utility in violence - Rachiel Maddows Show - Why the war on drugs is a huge failure - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell - 3 Ways Prohibition Shaped America…
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RFT - The Fundrive 2016 Edition
We are joined by Matt as we rap out some of the latest stories while asking our loyal listeners to donate at citr.ca/donate This week: - Super Tuesday - Syria, Iraq and boots on the ground, and - pseudo-legalization of pot
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RFT - Ep 328 - The Black History Month Edition
Joining me this week our irregular regular, Guled, our thoughtful criminologist to be, Nicholas, our resident electrical engineer and also returning, Matt, a person with a point of view… This Week: - A special segment were Guled explains the origin and purpose of Black History month - Gun…
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RFT - Ep 327 - The Dyson Sphere Edition
Joining me this week our irregular regular, Guled, our thoughtful criminologist to be, Nicholas, our resident electrical engineer and also returning, Matt, a person with a point of view… This Week: Have we found a Dyson Sphere? Running water on Mars, Planet 9 from stellar space and Gravitational...
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RFT - Ep 326 - The Trumped Edition
Joining me this week our irregular regular, Guled, our thoughtful criminologist to be, Nicholas, our resident electrical engineer and also returning, Matt, a person with a point of view... This Week: - The Paris Climate Agreement, and - Trumped - the Rise of Donal Trump, the Politician.
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RFT - Ep 325- Top Stories of 2015 - Guest Edition
Joining me this week our irregular regular, Guled, our thoughtful criminologist to be, Nicholas, our resident electrical engineer and also returning, Matt, a person with a point of view... This Week: - Indigenous Women and the Black Lives Matter movement, - Syrian Refugees, - Militarization of…
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RFT - Ep 324- Top Stories of 2015 - Host Edition
Joining me this week our irregular regular, Guled, our thoughtful criminologist to be, Nicholas, our resident electrical engineer and also returning, Matt, a person with a point of view... This Week: - ISIS and Terrorism, and - Federal Election 2015, the failed Coup.
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RFT - Ep 323 - The 2015 Science Year in Review - Guest Edition
Joining me this week our irregular regular, Guled, our thoughtful criminolgist to be and introducing Nicholas, our resident electrical engineer… This Week: - Space X success…finally - 3 Person Babies? - Man-made Earthquakes, - Climate Change, - VR becomes reality…again, - Internet of Things…
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Join Don as he explore the world with a skeptical eye. It's the show that applies skepticism and critical thinking to everyday issues. The place where reason and reality cross swords with politics, religion, economics and of course science. Join us each week, subscribe to our podcast and get ready to be skeptical.
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CiTR & Discorder Magazine