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Ann Druyan

2

Telepathy Tapes

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From Under a Guru's Thumb | Chanchal Garg

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SCOTUS Unbalanced

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Science v. Creationism with Eugenie Scott

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Science Beacon on a Hill with Griffith Observatory Director Dr. Ed krupp

7

Will Potter

8

Taking Inspiration from Greek History With Evaggelos Vallianatos

9

A Primer on Cold Reading

10

David Miles on Point of Inquiry

11

Steve Hill on Point of Inquiry

12

Robert Sapolsky POI

13

Leo Igwe on Point of Inquiry

14

There Are Definitely Atheists in Fox Holes

15

Kate Cohen on Atheism and the Rewards of Honesty

16

Sarah An Myers on Secularism and the Millennial Mind

17

Vaccine Hesitancy With Filmmaker Scott Kennedy

18

To The Temple of Tranquility, and Step on It

19

Supreme Injustice

20

Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera on the Challenge of Rallying the Nones

21

Getting to Know US Congressman Jared Huffman

22

The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project

23

MG Lord on the Weird and Wonderful History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

24

Jennifer Michael Hecht on the Power of Poetry and the Weirdness of Existence

25

New Discovery in the Chemistry of Life

26

Broken Promises and False Prophets: Rina Raphael on the Business of Wellness

27

Alice Greczyn on Deconversion and Her Escape From Extremist Christianity

28

Skepticism - Behind the Scenes

29

Steven Pinker Discusses Rationality and Humanist Values

30

Timothy Caulfield on the Infodemic and Spread of Misinformation

31

Kelly Weill on Flat-Earthers and Why People Will Believe Anything

32

Living on Life's Edge | Carl Zimmer on The Search for What It Means to Be Alive

33

The Case That Jesus Never Existed

34

David McAfee - Hi, I'm an Atheist!

35

Science Denial - Why It Happens and What to Do About It

36

Banachek - From the Inside of Being a Mentalist

37

How to Live a Good Life With Massimo Pigliucci and Skye Cleary

38

The Rise of the Nones with Ryan Burge

39

Greg Paul on the Lost Children and the Implications of Natural Evil

40

Inside the Group Investigating Extraordinary Paranormal and Supernatural Claims

41

Annabelle Gurwitch on Living Through Ups and Downs

42

Interview with David Javerbaum, Daily Show Writer and host of Godcast Podcast

43

Behind The Mind of a Conspiracy Theorist

44

An Atheist and a Christian Walk Into a Bar

45

The Trouble with Christmas for Atheists with Tom Flynn

46

Revisiting The Life Of Frank Sinatra – Living A Life Of Homelessness

47

The Puritan Roger Williams, Church State Separation, and The Impact on Today

48

J.R. Becker on the Annabelle and Aiden Book Series and Teaching Children Critical Thinking

49

Chris Matheson on Writing Bill and Ted and his Books on God and Buddha

50

Rev. Barry W. Lynn on The Supreme Court, Retirement, and His Upcoming Book

51

Dr. Raymond Hall on Physicsfun and Teaching Critical Thinking

52

The Brazen Atheist Erin Louis on Countering Conspiracists With Critical Thinking

53

Steven Hassan on Breaking Down The Cult of Trump

54

Anthony Pinn on Religion, Oppression, and Humanists

55

Scientology in Hollywood | A Guided Tour

56

Monuments to Misinformation | The Ark Experience & Creation Museum

57

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe and Science-Based Medicine's Steven Novella

58

Ian Harris on Comedy, Skeptical Audiences, and Atheism

59

Mandisa Thomas on Black Nonbelievers and the Atheist Community

60

Kurt Andersen, Fantastyland, and How Irrational Thought Worsened the Pandemic

61

Recognizing Misinformation and Staying Safe from Coronavirusa

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Professor Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories

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Where Are We In The Battle For Church State Separation

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Is a Good God Logically Possible? | James Sterba

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Playwright and Actor Ian Ruskin on Thomas Paine

66

Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God

67

Professor Chris French - Anomalistic Psychology and Conspiracy Theories in Politics

68

Richard Wiseman on the Skeptics Movement and Tricking People

69

ECSO President, Claire Klingenberg on the State of Skepticism

70

How Defy Ventures Reduces Recidivism with Rehabilitation

71

Former Security Guard and Atheist Activist Steve Hill on the Prison System

72

Angela Saini on the Return of Race Science

73

Dr. Sarah Taber on the Myth of the Destruction of Family Farms

74

Jerry Minor - From Jehovah's Witness to Comedian

75

Clearing Up the Concept of Risk Assessment

76

Julia Sweeney on Atheism, Saturday Night Live, and Me Too

77

Why Do People Love Umami but Fear MSG?

78

Diving into the Lawsuit Against Walmart and Fraudulent Homeopathic Medicines

79

Meet Science for the People

80

Matt Walsh On The Road To Hollywood, His Secular Wedding, and More

81

Dr. Jenny Yip on OCD, Anxiety, and Mental Health

82

Carol Tavris And Avrum Bluming On The Myth That Estrogen Causes Breast Cancer

83

Massimo Pigliucci and Susan Blackmore on Scientism and Subjectivity

84

The Secret Sting Operation to Expose Celeb Psychics with Susan Gerbic

85

Mark Boslough on the Dangers of Climate Change and Destructive Asteroids

86

Carl Zimmer and Paul Offit on Genetics, Race, and Vaccinations at CSICon 2018

87

The New Stars of Skeptical Investigation

88

Twitter's Resident Gynecologist And The Crusher Of The Gender Binary

89

The Battle for Young Minds - Bertha Vazquez on Teaching Evolution in Schools

90

Adam Conover and Tim Caulified on The Algorithm, Gwyneth Paltrow, Netflix and more

91

The Odyssey of the Plutophiles: Alan Stern and David Grinspoon on the Voyage of New Horizons

92

Trying to Throw Science at Them: Yvette d'Entremont and Kavin Senapathy on Food, Fads, and Fear

93

Margaret Sullivan: Reckoning and Redemption for the Reality-Based Press

94

Lee Billings on the Search for Life in a Silent Universe

95

Be Not Constrained: James Croft on Humanists' Responsibility to Fight Oppression

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Space Reporter Loren Grush: Hope and Hubris in Space Exploration

97

Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet

98

Carl Pope on Trump, Paris, and the Climate: We're Going to Be Okay

99

Show Update - Get Ready for Point of Inquiry: The Next Generation

100

Is Anybody Listening? Jill Tarter on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

101

Sarah Posner: How Trump Got His Hands on the Religious Right

102

Paul Offit: The Fate of Science in an Age of Darkness

103

Phoebe Maltz Bovy: Check Your Privilege-Checking

104

Mile-High Violence: Judith Matloff on Mountain Conflict

105

Tweaking the Travel Ban: Dahlia Lithwick on Trump's Revised Executive Order

106

Lawrence Krauss: Accidental Origins

107

The Pains of Justice: David M. Engel on Why Americans Don't Sue

108

James McGrath Morris on Ethel Payne, First Lady of the Black Press

109

Gary Taubes: The Bittersweet Truth about the Dangers of Sugar

110

Science, Stopped at the Border: Jen Golbeck on Science in Trump's America

111

Murder, Chaos, and Cover-Ups After Hurricane Katrina, with Ronnie Greene

112

Extended Mileage in Someone Else's Shoes: Ted Conover on Immersive Journalism

113

Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic

114

Enemies List Redux: Rick Perlstein on the Parallels between Trump and Nixon

115

Should Atheists Celebrate Christmas? Tom Flynn Debates Lindsay Beyerstein

116

Amanda Marcotte on the Trump Transition and the Reshaping of America

117

Embargo for America: Andrew W. Cohen on Smuggling and the Rise of a Superpower

118

Michael Berube: The Value and the Virtue of Raising a Child with Down Syndrome

119

Only as Bad as it's Ever Been: PJ O'Rourke on American Values, Politics and Culture

120

The Normalization of Hate: David Neiwert on Trump and the Rise of the Alt-Right

121

Trump's Victory and the Challenge to a Secular America, with Larry Decker

122

Comprehending the Incomprehensible: Samuel Arbesman on Rapidly Accelerating Technology

123

Halloween Special: Joe Nickell on the Paranormal's Origin Story

124

Cats and the Domestication of Humans, with Abigail Tucker

125

Trolling Unplugged: Benjamin Radford on the Creepy Clown Craze

126

Godless Infidels: Leigh Eric Schmidt on Atheism in the 19th Century

127

Doomsday Dread: The End of Civilization, with Phil Torres

128

Editing Our Pasts: Dr. Julia Shaw on The Illusion of Memory

129

The People vs. the Planet: Barry Vann on the Consequences of Climate Change

130

Terrible Food, Small Portions: Andrew Stark on Accepting Your Inevitable Demise

131

In the Weeds with Emily Willingham on Medical Cannabis

132

Faking Your Own Death: Elizabeth Greenwood on Death Fraud

133

Getting to the Pit of the Bull: Bronwen Dickey on Canines and Conspiracies

134

Competitive Cupping: David Gorski on Pseudoscience at the Olympics

135

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Facebook and Social Media Silencing

136

Donald Trump's Dirty Laundry, with David Cay Johnston

137

Wendy Kaminer: Dangerous Spaces for Free Speech

138

Ali Rizvi: Islam and Identity for an Atheist Muslim

139

Digitally Aware: David Levy on Mindfulness in an Information Overload

140

Surviving the Beauty Culture, with Autumn Whitefield-Mandrano

141

Invisible Asperger's: Michelle Vines on Late-Life Diagnosis

142

Bloody Bangladesh: Michael De Dora on the Attacks on Secularists

143

Jessica Valenti: The Measure of a Woman's Worth

144

Susan Jacoby on Conversions, Both Profound and Practical

145

Hooked on a Stigma: Maia Szalavitz on Understanding Addiction

146

An Unrecognizable Reformation: Shadi Hamid on Islamic Exceptionalism

147

Lies They Told My Mother: Dr. Amy Tuteur on the Moralization of Childbirth

148

Race Car Brains with Bicycle Brakes: Dr. Ned Hallowell on ADHD in a Distracting World

149

Single Ladies, Single Longer: Rebecca Traister on the Rise of the Unmarried Woman

150

The Burzynski Case and the Pitfalls of Medical Journalism, with Tamar Wilner

151

Johann Hari: The Beginning of the End of the War on Drugs

152

David Silverman: The Relentless Ascent of Atheism

153

Surviving Death: Ann Neumann on the Ethical Landscape of Dying

154

The Odds of Life's Oddities, with Mathematician John Allen Paulos

155

Former White Supremacist Arno Michaelis: Understanding Hate, Overcoming Fear

156

The Cunning Art of Con Artistry, with Maria Konnikova

157

Censorship in the Islamic World, Through the Eyes of Journalist Jessica Davey-Quantick

158

Can't Help Helping: Larissa MacFarquhar on Attitudes Toward Altruism

159

Sex and the Safely Satisfied, with Jaclyn Friedman (Valentine's Day Special)

160

Robyn Blumner and Ronald A. Lindsay: A Joining of Forces, a Passing of the Torch

161

Athens' Atheists: Tim Whitmarsh on Religious Doubt in Ancient Greece

162

Judaism for Nones: Millennials and God, with Rabbi Mark Wildes

163

Avoiding the TRAP: Defending Legal Abortion, with David A. Grimes, M.D.

164

Religious Belief, Naturally Selected - with John C. Wathey

165

Retconning Christmas: David Kyle Johnson on the Real Reason for the Season

166

Islam, Paris, and Polarization - with Michael Brooks

167

No, This Podcast is Not About You: David Laporte on the Proliferation of Paranoia

168

Steve Silberman: Evolving Attitudes Toward Autism

169

Mexico's Drug Policy in Flux, with Sylvia Longmire

170

Conjuring Rose: Joe Nickell's Annual Houdini Séance (Halloween Extra)

171

Sarah Posner: Trump, Carson, and the Religious Right in 2016

172

Taste the Science! - Serious Eats' J. Kenji López-Alt

173

Putting Kids First: Sarah Levin and Ed Beck on Vaccine Laws

174

The Mysteries of Parkinson's, with Jon Palfreman

175

Trials and Textbooks: Jeffrey Selman on Fighting Creationism in Schools

176

Keep 'Em Separated: Rev. Barry Lynn on God and Government

177

Craig Unger on the U.S. and Saudi Arabia: Frenemies 14 Years after 9/11

178

Invisible Catastrophes: Erik Loomis on the Consequences of Outsourcing

179

The City is Still Drowning: Gary Rivlin on New Orleans Ten Years After Katrina

180

Eugenie Scott: Decrypting Pseudoscience

181

Bred to Suffer: Paul Shapiro on Animals in Factory Farming

182

Dealing with Distraction in the Modern World, with Matt Crawford

183

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies

184

Stephen M. Walt: Learning to Live with the Islamic State

185

Patient Autonomy and Shifting Medical Ethics, with Dr. Barron Lerner

186

Radical Nationalism in Greece and the Romance of "No," with Daphne Halikiopoulou

187

Taslima Nasrin: A Woman of Courage without a Country

188

Bangladeshi Blogger Asif Mohiuddin: Attacked, Imprisoned, and Undeterred

189

Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference

190

Overwhelmed by Celebrity Culture, with Tim Caulfield

191

Anti-Abortion Terrorism and Free Speech, with David Cohen

192

The Benefits of Religion Without the Belief, with Jeff Rasely

193

Michael Specter on the Gluten-Free Fad

194

Alex Garland: Ex Machina and the Question of Consciousness

195

Clearing Up the Calorie: The Science of Nutrition, with Marion Nestle

196

Advice for the Teenage Atheist, with David Seidman

197

Peter Singer: Maximizing Morality with Reason

198

The Misinterpretations of the Supreme Court, with Ian Millhiser

199

Bassem Youssef and Ahmed Ahmed: The Risk and Rewards of Satire

200

Phil Zuckerman: Those Normal, Upstanding Nonbelievers

201

Realpolitik and America's Conflict with Iran, with Joint Chiefs of Staff Advisor David Crist

202

Johann Hari: The Falsehoods of Addiction and The War on Drugs

203

The World Human Extinction Will Leave Behind, with Michael Tennesen

204

Eli Lake: How Islamic is 'Islamic Extremism'?

205

False Memories Creating False Criminals, with Dr. Julia Shaw

206

Leighann Lord: Courageous Comedy as a Safe Space

207

Laci Green: Truths and Myths about Sex and Love

208

Letting Go of the Soul, with Julien Musolino

209

Paul Offit, MD, on Measles in the Magic Kingdom and the Anti-Vaccine Movement

210

The Women Spies of the Civil War, with Karen Abbott

211

Before Charlie Hebdo: The Danish Cartoons that Shook the world, with Jytte Klausen

212

Penalizing Pregnancy: Lynn Paltrow on the Fight for Reproductive Justice

213

​Christmas Extra: Tom Flynn's 30th Year of Anti-ClausingTom Flynn is Executive Director of The Council for Secular Humanism, Editor of Free Inquiry magazine, Director of Inquiry Media Productions, as well as professional anti-Christmas advocate and au

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Greta Christina on Coping with Death, No Afterlife Required

215

Frank Schaeffer on Cynicism and Paranoia in the "War on Christmas"

216

Ronald A. Lindsay: Why God Can't Tell Us What to Do

217

Deciphering Alan Turing, with Andrew Hodges

218

Getting Over Racial Anxiety, with Rachel D. Godsil

219

Surviving Saddam and Confronting Islam, with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar

220

Steven Pinker: Using Grammar as a Tool, Not as a Weapon

221

Ebola in the Age of Epidemics - Special Live Episode

222

Halloween Extra: 18th Annual Houdini Séance with Joe Nickell

223

Pro-Choice Without Apology, with Katha Pollitt

224

The Human Impact of Discovering Alien Life, with Astrobiologist Steven J. Dick

225

The Theology of ISIS, with Dr. Adam Silverman

226

Austin Dacey

227

Mark Oppenheimer on Misogyny in the Freethought Community

228

Factory Farming and the Meat Racket: Christopher Leonard on our Irrational Meat Industry

229

Ask a Mortician: Caitlin Doughty on the Death Industry's Dirty Secrets

230

Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion

231

Dr. Adia Benton on The West African Ebola Outbreak

232

Paul Offit, MD - Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

233

Christopher Capozzola: 100 Years After the Great War, Lessons in Reason

234

Laurel Braitman on Animals and Mental Illness

235

David Ropeik: Airplane Disasters and the Psychology of Risk

236

Jason Horowitz: Protecting the Whales from the U.S. Navy

237

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

238

The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby--With Brian Leiter

239

Montel Williams: Leading a Surge on the Veterans Administration

240

Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion

241

Howard Fineman on Eric Cantor's Defeat and the Battle for the Soul of the GOP

242

Janet Mock, Redefining Realness, Biology, Sex and Gender

243

Negin Farsad: Red States and Muslim Comedy

244

Capital Punishment in Crisis with Dahlia Lithwick

245

Farzana Hassan on Islamic Extremism and the Boko Haram

246

Science Denialism with Donald Prothero

247

Talking Nerdy (And Ethically) with Cara Santa Maria

248

Coming Out Atheist - Greta Christina

249

A Trek Through Skepticism with The Amazing Randi

250

Living with a Wild God: Barbara Ehrenreich, Atheism, and Transcendence

251

Ann Druyan: Telling the Story of the Cosmos

252

Investigating the Oldest Profession: Prostitution and Science Meet, with Meredith Dank of the Urban Institute

253

Frank Schaeffer on Escaping Fundamentalism, and the Death of Fred Phelps

254

Cancer Quack Stanislaw Burzynski: Exposed

255

The Philosophy of Belief with Rebecca Goldstein

256

Daniel Loxton: Bigfoot, Nessie and Other Kinds of "Abominable Science"

257

Gabriel Sherman - The Loudest Voice in the Room : How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

258

Amy Tuteur, MD

259

Stanton Peele, PhD - Addiction and Recovery

260

Greg Dworkin, MD - Founding Editor of Flu Wiki

261

J.R. Havlan - Writer for The Daily Show

262

Jason Stanley - Is the United States a 'Racial Democracy?

263

Arthur Caplan, PhD - Ethics of Brain Death, end of life, the State and the Right

264

Chris Emden - Hip Hop Archivist and Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University

265

The War on Christmas

266

Kathryn Joyce - The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption

267

P.J. O'Rourke - American Satirist, Journalist and Author

268

Barry W. Lynn - Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

269

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa - First Hindu Chaplain for Columbia University

270

Paul Offit, MD - Do You Believe in Magic?: The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine

271

Bill Nye The Science Guy

272

Katherine Stewart: The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children

273

Leonard Mlodinow: Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

274

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

275

Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

276

Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

277

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

278

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

279

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

280

Ethan Zuckerman - Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

281

Mario Livio - Brilliant Blunders From Darwin to Einstein

282

Daniel Dennett - Tools for Thinking

283

Stephan Lewandowsky - The Mind of the Conspiracy Theorist

284

Katha Pollitt - Is Religion Inherently Sexist?

285

Michael Levi - Fracking, Pipelines, and Science

286

Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday

287

Mary Roach - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

288

Scott Atran - What Makes a Terrorist?

289

Neil Gross - Why Are Professors (and Scientists) So Liberal?

290

A.C. Grayling - The God Argument

291

Frans de Waal - The Bonobo and the Atheist

292

Carol Tavris - The Science of Sex and Gender

293

Amanda Marcotte - Skepticism Needs Feminism

294

Mark Lynas - Science and the Left

295

Matthew Hutson - The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking

296

Point of Inquiry Live | Steven Pinker - The Decline of Violence

297

Susan Jacoby - Freethought's Forgotten Hero

298

Carl Zimmer - Viruses and Other Little Things

299

Paul Krugman - Science and Pseudoscience in Economics

300

Sean Carroll - The Particle at the End of the Universe

301

Maria Konnikova - How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

302

Phil Plait - #Notpocalypse!

303

Scott Sigler - Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Science Fiction

304

Ronald A. Lindsay and Michael De Dora - Mr. Science Goes to Washington

305

David Brin - Uplifting Existence

306

Bill McKibben - Do the Math

307

Samuel Arbesman - The Half-Life of Facts

308

Steven Novella - Exposing Medical Nonsense

309

Michael Gordin - The Pseudoscience Wars

310

Jacques Berlinerblau - How to Be Secular

311

Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations

312

Special Double Episode: Jon Ronson and Richard Wiseman, with Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney

313

Bruce Hood - Superstitions in Baseball

314

Science and the 2012 Election - Shawn Otto and Matthew Chapman

315

Lisa Randall - Knocking on Heaven's Door

316

Massimo Pigliucci - Living Philosophically

317

Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

318

Phil Zuckerman - The Sociology of Irreligion

319

Rick Hayes-Roth - TruthMarket

320

Peter Ditto - Morals, Facts, and Libertarians

321

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

322

Arie Kruglanski - The Science of Closed-Mindedness

323

Joe Romm - Language Intelligence

324

Peter Montgomery - 12 Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics

325

Christopher diCarlo - How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass

326

Kerry Emanuel - Conservative for Climate Science

327

David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation

328

Tina Dupuy - Skepticism Meets Comedy

329

Special In Studio Episode: Jamie Kilstein, Ed Brayton, and More

330

Stuart Firestein - How Ignorance Drives Science

331

Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites

332

Cara Santa Maria - Talk Nerdy to Us

333

Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion

334

Christof Koch - Consciousness and Free Will

335

Johan Braeckman - The Rise of Islamic Creationism

336

Greta Christina - Why Are You Atheists So Angry?

337

M.G. Lord - The Accidental Feminist

338

Naomi Oreskes - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming

339

Austin Dacey - The Future of Blasphemy

340

Chris Mooney - The Republican Brain

341

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles

342

David Morrison - Cosmic Impact Hazard

343

Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind

344

Ari Rabin-Havt - The Fox Effect

345

Sean Faircloth - Attack of the Theocrats

346

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

347

Michael Mann - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

348

Dan Kahan - The Great Ideological Asymmetry Debate

349

Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing

350

Brian Malow - The Science Comedian

351

Eugenie Scott - Defending Climate Education

352

Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

353

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

354

John Cook - The Debunking Handbook

355

Daniel Dennett - The Scientific Study of Religion

356

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

357

Scott Gavura - Dispensing Skepticism

358

Jonathan Weiler - Authoritarians Versus Reality

359

Tom Flynn - The Trouble With Christmas

360

Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

361

Seth Shostak - ET, Call SETI

362

Jonathan Moreno - Our New Biopolitics

363

Richard C. Johnson - Religion: The Failed Narrative

364

Shawn Otto - The Assault on Science

365

CSICon - The Conference Dedicated To Scientific Inquiry And Critical Thinking

366

Indre Viskontas - The Miracle Detective

367

Austin Dacey - Rock the Theocrats

368

Lee Salisbury - From Faith to Critical Thinking

369

Rachel Tabachnick - Exposing Dominionism

370

John Dodes - The Tooth About Dentistry

371

Scott Atran - Violent Extremism and Sacred Values

372

Dan Barker - U-Turn on the Road to Damascus

373

Did Reason Evolve For Arguing? - Hugo Mercier

374

Donald Prothero - The Psychology of Cryptozoologists

375

David Frum and Kenneth Silber - Conservatives and Science

376

Jaco Gericke - Confessions of a Died-Again Christian

377

Rebecca Watson - Skepticism and Feminism

378

Richard Wiseman - Paranormality

379

Matthew Chapman - The Ledge

380

D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy

381

Rick Perlstein - Is There a Republican War on History?

382

Jean Mercer - Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

383

Michael Shermer - The Believing Brain

384

Scott Lohman - Star Trek and Humanism

385

Jonathan Kay - Among the Truthers

386

Robert Sheaffer - It's a Conspiracy

387

Chris Mooney - Accommodationism and the Psychology of Belief

388

Bo Bennett - Christian Nontheism

389

George Lakoff - Enlightenments, Old and New

390

Josh Rosenau - The Evolution Revolution

391

Nuclear Risk and Reason - David Brenner and David Ropeik

392

August Berkshire - Minnesota Atheist

393

Lawrence Krauss - Quantum Man

394

Cheryl Russell - Society, Statistics and Skepticism

395

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

396

Frank Zindler - The Christ Myth

397

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

398

Michael Cicchini - Myths, Misconceptions, and the Law

399

Dan Kahan - The American Culture War of Fact

400

Don Webb - Devil's Advocate

401

Art Caplan - Bioethics Comes of Age

402

Joe Nickell - The Other Side

403

The Irrationality Vaccine - Seth Mnookin

404

Hector Avalos - The End of Biblical Studies

405

Barry Kosmin - One Nation, Losing God

406

Reed Esau - SkeptiCamp: The Unconference

407

Why Facts Fail - Brendan Nyhan

408

Roger Nygard - The Nature of Existence

409

The Future of Atheism: Beyond the Question of God

410

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

411

John Abraham and Scott Mandia - Climate Science Strikes Back

412

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

413

Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense on Stilts

414

Warren Bonett - Down Under Reason

415

Carl Zimmer - This is Your Brain on iPad

416

John Shook - The God Debates

417

PZ Myers, Jennifer Michael Hecht, and Chris Mooney - New Atheism or Accommodation?

418

Steve Spangler - Hands-on Science

419

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

420

Jen Roth - Atheist Against Abortion

421

S. Jay Olshansky - Can Science Extend Human Life?

422

Brian Brushwood - Scams, Swindles and Skepticism

423

Richard Wrangham - Rediscovering Fire

424

Robert M. Price - Is the Bible Mein Kampf?

425

Alexander Zaitchik - Glenn Beck's War on Reason

426

Andrew Mayne - Magic, Mischief and Mayhem

427

Francesca Grifo - Science Under Obama

428

Tom Quinn - O Sweet Jesus

429

Phil Plait - Death from the Skies

430

Adam Savage - Skeptic (Confirmed)

431

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

432

Tom Flynn - In Like Flynn

433

Bill McKibben - Our Strange New Eaarth

434

Tim Farley - What's the Harm?

435

Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

436

S.T. Joshi - Fright and Freethought

437

Michael Specter - The Menace of Denialism

438

George Hrab - Soundtrack to Skepticism

439

Elaine Howard Ecklund - How Religious Are Scientists?

440

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

441

Deborah Blum - Murder and Chemistry in Jazz Age New York

442

Bob Carroll - Defining Skepticism

443

Eli Kintisch - Is Planet-Hacking Inevitable?

444

Thomas J.J. Altizer - The Death of God

445

Paul Kurtz - John Dewey and the Real Point of Inquiry

446

Scott Lilienfeld - Real Self-Help

447

Victor Stenger - Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

448

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

449

Robert J. Miller - The Jesus Seminar

450

Michael Mann - Unprecedented Attacks on Climate Research

451

Victor Stenger - The New Atheists

452

Ian Rowland - The Cold Hard Facts of Cold Reading

453

Paul Offit - The Costs of Vaccine Denialism

454

Banachek - Mentalism and Skepticism

455

Frank Schaeffer - Crazy for God

456

The 13th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

457

Randy Olson - Dont Be Such a Scientist

458

Darrel Ray - The God Virus

459

Chris Mooney - Unscientific America

460

Russell Blackford - 50 Voices of Disbelief

461

Ben Radford - Skepticism 2.0

462

Greg Craven - What is the Worst That Could Happen?

463

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

464

J.D. Trout - The Empathy Gap

465

Jeff Sharlet - The Family

466

William Little - The Psychic Tourist

467

Paul Kurtz - A Kinder, Gentler Secularism

468

Benjamin Wiker - The Darwin Myth

469

Ron Lindsay - International Blasphemy Day

470

Mark Blumberg - Freaks of Nature

471

Zachary Shore - Blunder

472

James Randi - The Faith Healers

473

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Caged Virgin

474

Tom Flynn - Secular Humanism versus . . . Atheism?

475

Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save

476

Tom Clark - Scientific Naturalism and the Illusion of Free Will

477

Ray Hyman - The Elusive Quarry

478

Susan Sackett - The Secular Humanism of Star Trek

479

Michael Shermer - Science, Skepticism and Libertarianism

480

Dale McGowan - Raising Freethinkers

481

David Koepsell - Who Owns You?

482

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

483

Paul Kurtz - Science and the Limits of the New Skepticism

484

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

485

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

486

Dacher Keltner - Born to Be Good

487

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

488

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Pluto Files

489

Angie McQuaig - Camp Inquiry

490

Eric Maisel - The Atheists Way

491

Jerry A. Coyne - Why Evolution Is True

492

Norm Allen - Skepticism and Black History

493

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

494

David J Linden - The Accidental Mind

495

John W. Loftus - Why I Became an Atheist

496

Kendrick Frazier - The Skeptical Inquirer

497

Christopher Burns- Deadly Decisions

498

Ginger Campbell - Podcasting Neuroscience

499

Simon Singh - Trick or Treatment

500

Tom Flynn - Science Fiction and Atheism

501

Paul Kurtz - Forbidden Fruit

502

Solomon Schimmel - Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

503

Solomon Schimmel - The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs

504

Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt

505

James McGaha - Lights in the Sky

506

Peter Singer - Vegetarianism and the Scientific Outlook

507

Peter Singer - Ethics in an Age of Darwin

508

The 12th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

509

Todd C. Riniolo - When Good Thinking Goes Bad

510

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

511

Lawrence M. Krauss - The Fear of Physics

512

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

513

Greg Long - The Making of Bigfoot

514

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

515

Andrew Fraknoi - The Cosmic History of Your Body

516

Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil

517

Ronald A. Lindsay - Future Bioethics

518

Rev. Michael Dowd - The Marriage of Science and Religion

519

Rev. Michael Dowd - Thank God For Evolution

520

Allan Mazur - Implausible Beliefs

521

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

522

Lewis Wolpert - The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

523

Joe Nickell - Humanistic Skepticism

524

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

525

Ben Radford - Paranormal Investigation

526

PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

527

PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

528

Susan Jacoby - The Age of American Unreason

529

Taner Edis - Science and Nonbelief

530

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

531

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

532

Paul Kurtz - The Transnational Center for Inquiry

533

Austin Dacey - Moral Values After Darwin

534

Chris Hedges - I Dont Believe in Atheists

535

John Shook - Naturalism and the Scientific Outlook

536

Michael Shermer - The Mind of The Market

537

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

538

Marc Hauser - Moral Minds

539

Sir Harold Kroto - Science Education and Freethinking

540

Austin Dacey - The Secular Conscience

541

Norm Allen - African American Religiosity, Humanism, and Politics

542

Robert M. Price - The Paperback Apocalypse

543

Matthew C. Nisbet - Communicating about Science and Religion

544

Tom Flynn - The Science vs. Religion Warfare Thesis

545

Lynne Kelly - The Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal

546

Tory Christman - Anti-Science Scientology?

547

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

548

John Allen Paulos - Irreligion

549

Colin McGinn - Secular Philosophy and Skepticism

550

Aubrey de Grey - Ending Aging

551

Dr. Stephen Barrett - Watching Out for Quackery

552

Lawrence Krauss - Seducing for Science

553

Paul Kurtz - Ethics for the Nonreligious

554

Student Freethought Leaders Speak Out

555

Richard Dawkins - Science and the New Atheism

556

Keith Stanovich - Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

557

Richard Wiseman - Quirkology

558

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

559

Michael Behe - The Edge of Evolution

560

The 11th Annual Houdini Seance at CFI

561

Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought

562

Edward Tabash - Why There Really Is No God

563

Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes

564

Alan Dershowitz - Blasphemy

565

Joe Nickell - The New Idolatry

566

Massimo Pigliucci - Making Sense of Evolution

567

Paul Kurtz - The New Atheism and Secular Humanism

568

Madeleine Van Hecke - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

569

Dr. Francis Collins - The Language of God

570

Garrett G. Fagan - Archaeological Fantasies

571

Chris Mooney - Storm World

572

Peter H. Gilmore - Science and Satanism

573

Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made

574

Peter Irons - God on Trial

575

Ophelia Benson - Why Truth Matters

576

Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

577

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great

578

Natalie Angier - The Canon

579

Tom Clark - Encountering Naturalism

580

R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Jesus Project

581

Chris Wisnia - Dr. DeBunko

582

David Triggle - Science and the Public

583

Jennifer Michael Hecht - The Happiness Myth

584

David Koepsell - Why Secular Humanism?

585

Joe Nickell - The Relics of the Christ

586

Hemant Mehta - I Sold My Soul on Ebay

587

Taner Edis - Science and Religion in Islam

588

Matthew C. Nisbet - Selling Science to the Public

589

Phil Plait - The Bad Astronomer

590

Joe Nickell - Debunking in Hollywood?

591

Nica Lalli - Nothing: Something to Believe In

592

Susan Haack - Defending Science -- Within Reason

593

Tawfik Hamid - My Life as a Muslim Terrorist

594

Robert M. Price - Jesus: The Failed Hypothesis

595

Victor Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis

596

Steven Pinker - Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature

597

Barbara Forrest - The Wedge of Intelligent Design

598

Peter Singer - The Way We Eat

599

Solomon Schimmel - Specious Proofs for Quranic Divinity

600

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole

601

John Shook - Scientific Naturalism and its Discontents

602

Eugene Burger - Magic and Mystery

603

Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan and The Varieties of Scientific Experience

604

R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Scientific Study of Religion

605

Tom Flynn - The Real War on Christmas

606

Susan Blackmore - In Search of the Light

607

Paul Kurtz - What is the Point of Inquiry

608

Barry Kosmin - The Scientific Study of Secularism

609

Norm Allen - Science, Humanism, and the Black Community

610

Michelle Goldberg - Kingdom Coming

611

Richard Wiseman - Theatre of Science

612

Chris Mooney - Science, Politics, and the Midterm Election

613

The CFI 10th Annual Houdini Seance - Halloween 2006

614

Salman Rushdie - Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism

615

Jill Tarter - Are We Alone?

616

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

617

Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation

618

Robert M. Price - The Reason Driven Life

619

Michael Shermer - Why Darwin Matters

620

Ann Druyan - Science, Wonder, and Spirituality

621

Paul Kurtz - World War and World Religions

622

Amy-Jill Levine - Who Was Jesus of Nazareth

623

Joe Nickell - Ancient Astronauts and the Nazca Lines

624

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Sky Is Not the Limit

625

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

626

Bill Cooke - Is Scientific Humanism Anti-Religious?

627

Derek Araujo - A Decade of Campus Freethought Activism

628

Barry Beyerstein - The Sins of Big Pharma

629

Thomas Kida - Dont Believe Everything You Think

630

Paul Kurtz - The Courage to Become

631

James Randi - Science, Magic, and Future of Skepticism

632

Tom Flynn - The Rise of the Non-Religious

633

Jerry Coyne - The Case Against Intelligent Design

634

Cathleen Falsani - The God Factor

635

Joe Nickell - Psychic Detectives

636

R. Joseph Hoffmann - Examining The Da Vinci Code

637

Matt Nisbet - Framing Science

638

Paul Kurtz - Science and Planetary Ethics

639

Edward Tabash - True Meaning of Church/State Separation

640

Eugenie Scott - Evolution vs. Religious Belief?

641

Bill Nye - Changing The World With Science Education

642

Sam Harris - The Mortal Dangers of Religion

643

Sam Harris - The End of Faith

644

Herbert Hauptman - The Joy of Science

645

Jamy Ian Swiss - Psychics, Science, and Magic

646

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

647

Paul Kurtz - Skepticism of the Third Kind

648

Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell

649

Dr. Wallace Sampson - Science Meets Alternative Medicine

650

Joe Nickell - Aliens and Abductions

651

Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil?

652

Marci Hamilton - Religion and the Rule of Law

653

Chris Mooney - The Republican War on Science

654

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

655

Max Maven - Magic and Skepticism

656

Ibn Warraq - Why I Am Not a Muslim

657

Susan Jacoby - The History of American Secularism

658

Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

659

Joe Nickell - Skeptical Inquiry vs. Debunking

660

Paul Kurtz - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?