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Sneeze: The History and Science of the Common Cold with Immunologist David Miles

2

Round Trip to Christiantown

3

Ann Druyan

4

Telepathy Tapes

5

From Under a Guru's Thumb | Chanchal Garg

6

SCOTUS Unbalanced

7

Science v. Creationism with Eugenie Scott

8

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

9

Will Potter

10

Taking Inspiration from Greek History With Evaggelos Vallianatos

11

A Primer on Cold Reading

12

David Miles on Point of Inquiry

13

Steve Hill on Point of Inquiry

14

Robert Sapolsky POI

15

Leo Igwe on Point of Inquiry

16

There Are Definitely Atheists in Fox Holes

17

Kate Cohen on Atheism and the Rewards of Honesty

18

Sarah An Myers on Secularism and the Millennial Mind

19

Vaccine Hesitancy With Filmmaker Scott Kennedy

20

To The Temple of Tranquility, and Step on It

21

Supreme Injustice

22

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

23

Getting to Know US Congressman Jared Huffman

24

The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project

25

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

26

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

27

New Discovery in the Chemistry of Life

28

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

29

Alice Greczyn on Deconversion and Her Escape From Extremist Christianity

30

Skepticism - Behind the Scenes

31

Steven Pinker Discusses Rationality and Humanist Values

32

Timothy Caulfield on the Infodemic and Spread of Misinformation

33

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

34

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

35

The Case That Jesus Never Existed

36

David McAfee - Hi, I'm an Atheist!

37

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

38

Banachek - From the Inside of Being a Mentalist

39

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

40

The Rise of the Nones with Ryan Burge

41

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

42

Inside the Group Investigating Extraordinary Paranormal and Supernatural Claims

43

Annabelle Gurwitch on Living Through Ups and Downs

44

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

45

Behind The Mind of a Conspiracy Theorist

46

An Atheist and a Christian Walk Into a Bar

47

The Trouble with Christmas for Atheists with Tom Flynn

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

Dr. Raymond Hall on Physicsfun and Teaching Critical Thinking

54

The Brazen Atheist Erin Louis on Countering Conspiracists With Critical Thinking

55

Steven Hassan on Breaking Down The Cult of Trump

56

Anthony Pinn on Religion, Oppression, and Humanists

57

Scientology in Hollywood | A Guided Tour

58

Monuments to Misinformation | The Ark Experience & Creation Museum

59

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

60

Ian Harris on Comedy, Skeptical Audiences, and Atheism

61

Mandisa Thomas on Black Nonbelievers and the Atheist Community

62

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

63

Recognizing Misinformation and Staying Safe from Coronavirusa

64

Professor Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories

65

Where Are We In The Battle For Church State Separation

66

Is a Good God Logically Possible? | James Sterba

67

Playwright and Actor Ian Ruskin on Thomas Paine

68

Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God

69

Professor Chris French - Anomalistic Psychology and Conspiracy Theories in Politics

70

Richard Wiseman on the Skeptics Movement and Tricking People

71

ECSO President, Claire Klingenberg on the State of Skepticism

72

How Defy Ventures Reduces Recidivism with Rehabilitation

73

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

74

Angela Saini on the Return of Race Science

75

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

76

Jerry Minor - From Jehovah's Witness to Comedian

77

Clearing Up the Concept of Risk Assessment

78

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

79

Why Do People Love Umami but Fear MSG?

80

Diving into the Lawsuit Against Walmart and Fraudulent Homeopathic Medicines

81

Meet Science for the People

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

Massimo Pigliucci and Susan Blackmore on Scientism and Subjectivity

86

The Secret Sting Operation to Expose Celeb Psychics with Susan Gerbic

87

Mark Boslough on the Dangers of Climate Change and Destructive Asteroids

88

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

89

The New Stars of Skeptical Investigation

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

Lee Billings on the Search for Life in a Silent Universe

97

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

98

Space Reporter Loren Grush: Hope and Hubris in Space Exploration

99

Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

Phoebe Maltz Bovy: Check Your Privilege-Checking

106

Mile-High Violence: Judith Matloff on Mountain Conflict

107

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

108

Lawrence Krauss: Accidental Origins

109

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

110

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

111

Gary Taubes: The Bittersweet Truth about the Dangers of Sugar

112

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

113

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

114

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

115

Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic

116

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

117

Should Atheists Celebrate Christmas? Tom Flynn Debates Lindsay Beyerstein

118

Amanda Marcotte on the Trump Transition and the Reshaping of America

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

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

124

Comprehending the Incomprehensible: Samuel Arbesman on Rapidly Accelerating Technology

125

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

126

Cats and the Domestication of Humans, with Abigail Tucker

127

Trolling Unplugged: Benjamin Radford on the Creepy Clown Craze

128

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

129

Doomsday Dread: The End of Civilization, with Phil Torres

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

In the Weeds with Emily Willingham on Medical Cannabis

134

Faking Your Own Death: Elizabeth Greenwood on Death Fraud

135

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

136

Competitive Cupping: David Gorski on Pseudoscience at the Olympics

137

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Facebook and Social Media Silencing

138

Donald Trump's Dirty Laundry, with David Cay Johnston

139

Wendy Kaminer: Dangerous Spaces for Free Speech

140

Ali Rizvi: Islam and Identity for an Atheist Muslim

141

Digitally Aware: David Levy on Mindfulness in an Information Overload

142

Surviving the Beauty Culture, with Autumn Whitefield-Mandrano

143

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

144

Bloody Bangladesh: Michael De Dora on the Attacks on Secularists

145

Jessica Valenti: The Measure of a Woman's Worth

146

Susan Jacoby on Conversions, Both Profound and Practical

147

Hooked on a Stigma: Maia Szalavitz on Understanding Addiction

148

An Unrecognizable Reformation: Shadi Hamid on Islamic Exceptionalism

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

David Silverman: The Relentless Ascent of Atheism

155

Surviving Death: Ann Neumann on the Ethical Landscape of Dying

156

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

157

Former White Supremacist Arno Michaelis: Understanding Hate, Overcoming Fear

158

The Cunning Art of Con Artistry, with Maria Konnikova

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

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

166

Religious Belief, Naturally Selected - with John C. Wathey

167

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

168

Islam, Paris, and Polarization - with Michael Brooks

169

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

170

Steve Silberman: Evolving Attitudes Toward Autism

171

Mexico's Drug Policy in Flux, with Sylvia Longmire

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

The Mysteries of Parkinson's, with Jon Palfreman

177

Trials and Textbooks: Jeffrey Selman on Fighting Creationism in Schools

178

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

179

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

180

Invisible Catastrophes: Erik Loomis on the Consequences of Outsourcing

181

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

182

Eugenie Scott: Decrypting Pseudoscience

183

Bred to Suffer: Paul Shapiro on Animals in Factory Farming

184

Dealing with Distraction in the Modern World, with Matt Crawford

185

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies

186

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

187

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

188

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

189

Taslima Nasrin: A Woman of Courage without a Country

190

Bangladeshi Blogger Asif Mohiuddin: Attacked, Imprisoned, and Undeterred

191

Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference

192

Overwhelmed by Celebrity Culture, with Tim Caulfield

193

Anti-Abortion Terrorism and Free Speech, with David Cohen

194

The Benefits of Religion Without the Belief, with Jeff Rasely

195

Michael Specter on the Gluten-Free Fad

196

Alex Garland: Ex Machina and the Question of Consciousness

197

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

198

Advice for the Teenage Atheist, with David Seidman

199

Peter Singer: Maximizing Morality with Reason

200

The Misinterpretations of the Supreme Court, with Ian Millhiser

201

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

202

Phil Zuckerman: Those Normal, Upstanding Nonbelievers

203

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

204

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

205

The World Human Extinction Will Leave Behind, with Michael Tennesen

206

Eli Lake: How Islamic is 'Islamic Extremism'?

207

False Memories Creating False Criminals, with Dr. Julia Shaw

208

Leighann Lord: Courageous Comedy as a Safe Space

209

Laci Green: Truths and Myths about Sex and Love

210

Letting Go of the Soul, with Julien Musolino

211

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

212

The Women Spies of the Civil War, with Karen Abbott

213

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

214

Penalizing Pregnancy: Lynn Paltrow on the Fight for Reproductive Justice

215

​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

216

Greta Christina on Coping with Death, No Afterlife Required

217

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

218

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

219

Deciphering Alan Turing, with Andrew Hodges

220

Getting Over Racial Anxiety, with Rachel D. Godsil

221

Surviving Saddam and Confronting Islam, with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar

222

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

223

Ebola in the Age of Epidemics - Special Live Episode

224

Halloween Extra: 18th Annual Houdini Séance with Joe Nickell

225

Pro-Choice Without Apology, with Katha Pollitt

226

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

227

The Theology of ISIS, with Dr. Adam Silverman

228

Austin Dacey

229

Mark Oppenheimer on Misogyny in the Freethought Community

230

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

231

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

232

Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion

233

Dr. Adia Benton on The West African Ebola Outbreak

234

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

235

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

236

Laurel Braitman on Animals and Mental Illness

237

David Ropeik: Airplane Disasters and the Psychology of Risk

238

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

239

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

240

The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby--With Brian Leiter

241

Montel Williams: Leading a Surge on the Veterans Administration

242

Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion

243

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

244

Janet Mock, Redefining Realness, Biology, Sex and Gender

245

Negin Farsad: Red States and Muslim Comedy

246

Capital Punishment in Crisis with Dahlia Lithwick

247

Farzana Hassan on Islamic Extremism and the Boko Haram

248

Science Denialism with Donald Prothero

249

Talking Nerdy (And Ethically) with Cara Santa Maria

250

Coming Out Atheist - Greta Christina

251

A Trek Through Skepticism with The Amazing Randi

252

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

253

Ann Druyan: Telling the Story of the Cosmos

254

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

255

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

256

Cancer Quack Stanislaw Burzynski: Exposed

257

The Philosophy of Belief with Rebecca Goldstein

258

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

259

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

260

Amy Tuteur, MD

261

Stanton Peele, PhD - Addiction and Recovery

262

Greg Dworkin, MD - Founding Editor of Flu Wiki

263

J.R. Havlan - Writer for The Daily Show

264

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

265

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

266

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

267

The War on Christmas

268

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

269

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

270

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

271

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa - First Hindu Chaplain for Columbia University

272

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

273

Bill Nye The Science Guy

274

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

275

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

276

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

277

Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

278

Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

279

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

280

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

281

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

282

Ethan Zuckerman - Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

283

Mario Livio - Brilliant Blunders From Darwin to Einstein

284

Daniel Dennett - Tools for Thinking

285

Stephan Lewandowsky - The Mind of the Conspiracy Theorist

286

Katha Pollitt - Is Religion Inherently Sexist?

287

Michael Levi - Fracking, Pipelines, and Science

288

Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday

289

Mary Roach - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

290

Scott Atran - What Makes a Terrorist?

291

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

292

A.C. Grayling - The God Argument

293

Frans de Waal - The Bonobo and the Atheist

294

Carol Tavris - The Science of Sex and Gender

295

Amanda Marcotte - Skepticism Needs Feminism

296

Mark Lynas - Science and the Left

297

Matthew Hutson - The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking

298

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

299

Susan Jacoby - Freethought's Forgotten Hero

300

Carl Zimmer - Viruses and Other Little Things

301

Paul Krugman - Science and Pseudoscience in Economics

302

Sean Carroll - The Particle at the End of the Universe

303

Maria Konnikova - How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

304

Phil Plait - #Notpocalypse!

305

Scott Sigler - Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Science Fiction

306

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

307

David Brin - Uplifting Existence

308

Bill McKibben - Do the Math

309

Samuel Arbesman - The Half-Life of Facts

310

Steven Novella - Exposing Medical Nonsense

311

Michael Gordin - The Pseudoscience Wars

312

Jacques Berlinerblau - How to Be Secular

313

Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations

314

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

315

Bruce Hood - Superstitions in Baseball

316

Science and the 2012 Election - Shawn Otto and Matthew Chapman

317

Lisa Randall - Knocking on Heaven's Door

318

Massimo Pigliucci - Living Philosophically

319

Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

320

Phil Zuckerman - The Sociology of Irreligion

321

Rick Hayes-Roth - TruthMarket

322

Peter Ditto - Morals, Facts, and Libertarians

323

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

324

Arie Kruglanski - The Science of Closed-Mindedness

325

Joe Romm - Language Intelligence

326

Peter Montgomery - 12 Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics

327

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

328

Kerry Emanuel - Conservative for Climate Science

329

David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation

330

Tina Dupuy - Skepticism Meets Comedy

331

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

332

Stuart Firestein - How Ignorance Drives Science

333

Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites

334

Cara Santa Maria - Talk Nerdy to Us

335

Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion

336

Christof Koch - Consciousness and Free Will

337

Johan Braeckman - The Rise of Islamic Creationism

338

Greta Christina - Why Are You Atheists So Angry?

339

M.G. Lord - The Accidental Feminist

340

Naomi Oreskes - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming

341

Austin Dacey - The Future of Blasphemy

342

Chris Mooney - The Republican Brain

343

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles

344

David Morrison - Cosmic Impact Hazard

345

Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind

346

Ari Rabin-Havt - The Fox Effect

347

Sean Faircloth - Attack of the Theocrats

348

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

349

Michael Mann - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

350

Dan Kahan - The Great Ideological Asymmetry Debate

351

Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing

352

Brian Malow - The Science Comedian

353

Eugenie Scott - Defending Climate Education

354

Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

355

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

356

John Cook - The Debunking Handbook

357

Daniel Dennett - The Scientific Study of Religion

358

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

359

Scott Gavura - Dispensing Skepticism

360

Jonathan Weiler - Authoritarians Versus Reality

361

Tom Flynn - The Trouble With Christmas

362

Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

363

Seth Shostak - ET, Call SETI

364

Jonathan Moreno - Our New Biopolitics

365

Richard C. Johnson - Religion: The Failed Narrative

366

Shawn Otto - The Assault on Science

367

CSICon - The Conference Dedicated To Scientific Inquiry And Critical Thinking

368

Indre Viskontas - The Miracle Detective

369

Austin Dacey - Rock the Theocrats

370

Lee Salisbury - From Faith to Critical Thinking

371

Rachel Tabachnick - Exposing Dominionism

372

John Dodes - The Tooth About Dentistry

373

Scott Atran - Violent Extremism and Sacred Values

374

Dan Barker - U-Turn on the Road to Damascus

375

Did Reason Evolve For Arguing? - Hugo Mercier

376

Donald Prothero - The Psychology of Cryptozoologists

377

David Frum and Kenneth Silber - Conservatives and Science

378

Jaco Gericke - Confessions of a Died-Again Christian

379

Rebecca Watson - Skepticism and Feminism

380

Richard Wiseman - Paranormality

381

Matthew Chapman - The Ledge

382

D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy

383

Rick Perlstein - Is There a Republican War on History?

384

Jean Mercer - Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

385

Michael Shermer - The Believing Brain

386

Scott Lohman - Star Trek and Humanism

387

Jonathan Kay - Among the Truthers

388

Robert Sheaffer - It's a Conspiracy

389

Chris Mooney - Accommodationism and the Psychology of Belief

390

Bo Bennett - Christian Nontheism

391

George Lakoff - Enlightenments, Old and New

392

Josh Rosenau - The Evolution Revolution

393

Nuclear Risk and Reason - David Brenner and David Ropeik

394

August Berkshire - Minnesota Atheist

395

Lawrence Krauss - Quantum Man

396

Cheryl Russell - Society, Statistics and Skepticism

397

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

398

Frank Zindler - The Christ Myth

399

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

400

Michael Cicchini - Myths, Misconceptions, and the Law

401

Dan Kahan - The American Culture War of Fact

402

Don Webb - Devil's Advocate

403

Art Caplan - Bioethics Comes of Age

404

Joe Nickell - The Other Side

405

The Irrationality Vaccine - Seth Mnookin

406

Hector Avalos - The End of Biblical Studies

407

Barry Kosmin - One Nation, Losing God

408

Reed Esau - SkeptiCamp: The Unconference

409

Why Facts Fail - Brendan Nyhan

410

Roger Nygard - The Nature of Existence

411

The Future of Atheism: Beyond the Question of God

412

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

413

John Abraham and Scott Mandia - Climate Science Strikes Back

414

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

415

Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense on Stilts

416

Warren Bonett - Down Under Reason

417

Carl Zimmer - This is Your Brain on iPad

418

John Shook - The God Debates

419

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

420

Steve Spangler - Hands-on Science

421

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

422

Jen Roth - Atheist Against Abortion

423

S. Jay Olshansky - Can Science Extend Human Life?

424

Brian Brushwood - Scams, Swindles and Skepticism

425

Richard Wrangham - Rediscovering Fire

426

Robert M. Price - Is the Bible Mein Kampf?

427

Alexander Zaitchik - Glenn Beck's War on Reason

428

Andrew Mayne - Magic, Mischief and Mayhem

429

Francesca Grifo - Science Under Obama

430

Tom Quinn - O Sweet Jesus

431

Phil Plait - Death from the Skies

432

Adam Savage - Skeptic (Confirmed)

433

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

434

Tom Flynn - In Like Flynn

435

Bill McKibben - Our Strange New Eaarth

436

Tim Farley - What's the Harm?

437

Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

438

S.T. Joshi - Fright and Freethought

439

Michael Specter - The Menace of Denialism

440

George Hrab - Soundtrack to Skepticism

441

Elaine Howard Ecklund - How Religious Are Scientists?

442

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

443

Deborah Blum - Murder and Chemistry in Jazz Age New York

444

Bob Carroll - Defining Skepticism

445

Eli Kintisch - Is Planet-Hacking Inevitable?

446

Thomas J.J. Altizer - The Death of God

447

Paul Kurtz - John Dewey and the Real Point of Inquiry

448

Scott Lilienfeld - Real Self-Help

449

Victor Stenger - Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

450

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

451

Robert J. Miller - The Jesus Seminar

452

Michael Mann - Unprecedented Attacks on Climate Research

453

Victor Stenger - The New Atheists

454

Ian Rowland - The Cold Hard Facts of Cold Reading

455

Paul Offit - The Costs of Vaccine Denialism

456

Banachek - Mentalism and Skepticism

457

Frank Schaeffer - Crazy for God

458

The 13th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

459

Randy Olson - Dont Be Such a Scientist

460

Darrel Ray - The God Virus

461

Chris Mooney - Unscientific America

462

Russell Blackford - 50 Voices of Disbelief

463

Ben Radford - Skepticism 2.0

464

Greg Craven - What is the Worst That Could Happen?

465

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

466

J.D. Trout - The Empathy Gap

467

Jeff Sharlet - The Family

468

William Little - The Psychic Tourist

469

Paul Kurtz - A Kinder, Gentler Secularism

470

Benjamin Wiker - The Darwin Myth

471

Ron Lindsay - International Blasphemy Day

472

Mark Blumberg - Freaks of Nature

473

Zachary Shore - Blunder

474

James Randi - The Faith Healers

475

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Caged Virgin

476

Tom Flynn - Secular Humanism versus . . . Atheism?

477

Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save

478

Tom Clark - Scientific Naturalism and the Illusion of Free Will

479

Ray Hyman - The Elusive Quarry

480

Susan Sackett - The Secular Humanism of Star Trek

481

Michael Shermer - Science, Skepticism and Libertarianism

482

Dale McGowan - Raising Freethinkers

483

David Koepsell - Who Owns You?

484

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

485

Paul Kurtz - Science and the Limits of the New Skepticism

486

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

487

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

488

Dacher Keltner - Born to Be Good

489

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

490

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Pluto Files

491

Angie McQuaig - Camp Inquiry

492

Eric Maisel - The Atheists Way

493

Jerry A. Coyne - Why Evolution Is True

494

Norm Allen - Skepticism and Black History

495

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

496

David J Linden - The Accidental Mind

497

John W. Loftus - Why I Became an Atheist

498

Kendrick Frazier - The Skeptical Inquirer

499

Christopher Burns- Deadly Decisions

500

Ginger Campbell - Podcasting Neuroscience

501

Simon Singh - Trick or Treatment

502

Tom Flynn - Science Fiction and Atheism

503

Paul Kurtz - Forbidden Fruit

504

Solomon Schimmel - Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

505

Solomon Schimmel - The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs

506

Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt

507

James McGaha - Lights in the Sky

508

Peter Singer - Vegetarianism and the Scientific Outlook

509

Peter Singer - Ethics in an Age of Darwin

510

The 12th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

511

Todd C. Riniolo - When Good Thinking Goes Bad

512

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

513

Lawrence M. Krauss - The Fear of Physics

514

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

515

Greg Long - The Making of Bigfoot

516

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

517

Andrew Fraknoi - The Cosmic History of Your Body

518

Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil

519

Ronald A. Lindsay - Future Bioethics

520

Rev. Michael Dowd - The Marriage of Science and Religion

521

Rev. Michael Dowd - Thank God For Evolution

522

Allan Mazur - Implausible Beliefs

523

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

524

Lewis Wolpert - The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

525

Joe Nickell - Humanistic Skepticism

526

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

527

Ben Radford - Paranormal Investigation

528

PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

529

PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

530

Susan Jacoby - The Age of American Unreason

531

Taner Edis - Science and Nonbelief

532

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

533

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

534

Paul Kurtz - The Transnational Center for Inquiry

535

Austin Dacey - Moral Values After Darwin

536

Chris Hedges - I Dont Believe in Atheists

537

John Shook - Naturalism and the Scientific Outlook

538

Michael Shermer - The Mind of The Market

539

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

540

Marc Hauser - Moral Minds

541

Sir Harold Kroto - Science Education and Freethinking

542

Austin Dacey - The Secular Conscience

543

Norm Allen - African American Religiosity, Humanism, and Politics

544

Robert M. Price - The Paperback Apocalypse

545

Matthew C. Nisbet - Communicating about Science and Religion

546

Tom Flynn - The Science vs. Religion Warfare Thesis

547

Lynne Kelly - The Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal

548

Tory Christman - Anti-Science Scientology?

549

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

550

John Allen Paulos - Irreligion

551

Colin McGinn - Secular Philosophy and Skepticism

552

Aubrey de Grey - Ending Aging

553

Dr. Stephen Barrett - Watching Out for Quackery

554

Lawrence Krauss - Seducing for Science

555

Paul Kurtz - Ethics for the Nonreligious

556

Student Freethought Leaders Speak Out

557

Richard Dawkins - Science and the New Atheism

558

Keith Stanovich - Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

559

Richard Wiseman - Quirkology

560

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

561

Michael Behe - The Edge of Evolution

562

The 11th Annual Houdini Seance at CFI

563

Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought

564

Edward Tabash - Why There Really Is No God

565

Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes

566

Alan Dershowitz - Blasphemy

567

Joe Nickell - The New Idolatry

568

Massimo Pigliucci - Making Sense of Evolution

569

Paul Kurtz - The New Atheism and Secular Humanism

570

Madeleine Van Hecke - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

571

Dr. Francis Collins - The Language of God

572

Garrett G. Fagan - Archaeological Fantasies

573

Chris Mooney - Storm World

574

Peter H. Gilmore - Science and Satanism

575

Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made

576

Peter Irons - God on Trial

577

Ophelia Benson - Why Truth Matters

578

Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

579

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great

580

Natalie Angier - The Canon

581

Tom Clark - Encountering Naturalism

582

R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Jesus Project

583

Chris Wisnia - Dr. DeBunko

584

David Triggle - Science and the Public

585

Jennifer Michael Hecht - The Happiness Myth

586

David Koepsell - Why Secular Humanism?

587

Joe Nickell - The Relics of the Christ

588

Hemant Mehta - I Sold My Soul on Ebay

589

Taner Edis - Science and Religion in Islam

590

Matthew C. Nisbet - Selling Science to the Public

591

Phil Plait - The Bad Astronomer

592

Joe Nickell - Debunking in Hollywood?

593

Nica Lalli - Nothing: Something to Believe In

594

Susan Haack - Defending Science -- Within Reason

595

Tawfik Hamid - My Life as a Muslim Terrorist

596

Robert M. Price - Jesus: The Failed Hypothesis

597

Victor Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis

598

Steven Pinker - Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature

599

Barbara Forrest - The Wedge of Intelligent Design

600

Peter Singer - The Way We Eat

601

Solomon Schimmel - Specious Proofs for Quranic Divinity

602

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole

603

John Shook - Scientific Naturalism and its Discontents

604

Eugene Burger - Magic and Mystery

605

Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan and The Varieties of Scientific Experience

606

R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Scientific Study of Religion

607

Tom Flynn - The Real War on Christmas

608

Susan Blackmore - In Search of the Light

609

Paul Kurtz - What is the Point of Inquiry

610

Barry Kosmin - The Scientific Study of Secularism

611

Norm Allen - Science, Humanism, and the Black Community

612

Michelle Goldberg - Kingdom Coming

613

Richard Wiseman - Theatre of Science

614

Chris Mooney - Science, Politics, and the Midterm Election

615

The CFI 10th Annual Houdini Seance - Halloween 2006

616

Salman Rushdie - Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism

617

Jill Tarter - Are We Alone?

618

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

619

Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation

620

Robert M. Price - The Reason Driven Life

621

Michael Shermer - Why Darwin Matters

622

Ann Druyan - Science, Wonder, and Spirituality

623

Paul Kurtz - World War and World Religions

624

Amy-Jill Levine - Who Was Jesus of Nazareth

625

Joe Nickell - Ancient Astronauts and the Nazca Lines

626

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Sky Is Not the Limit

627

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

628

Bill Cooke - Is Scientific Humanism Anti-Religious?

629

Derek Araujo - A Decade of Campus Freethought Activism

630

Barry Beyerstein - The Sins of Big Pharma

631

Thomas Kida - Dont Believe Everything You Think

632

Paul Kurtz - The Courage to Become

633

James Randi - Science, Magic, and Future of Skepticism

634

Tom Flynn - The Rise of the Non-Religious

635

Jerry Coyne - The Case Against Intelligent Design

636

Cathleen Falsani - The God Factor

637

Joe Nickell - Psychic Detectives

638

R. Joseph Hoffmann - Examining The Da Vinci Code

639

Matt Nisbet - Framing Science

640

Paul Kurtz - Science and Planetary Ethics

641

Edward Tabash - True Meaning of Church/State Separation

642

Eugenie Scott - Evolution vs. Religious Belief?

643

Bill Nye - Changing The World With Science Education

644

Sam Harris - The Mortal Dangers of Religion

645

Sam Harris - The End of Faith

646

Herbert Hauptman - The Joy of Science

647

Jamy Ian Swiss - Psychics, Science, and Magic

648

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

649

Paul Kurtz - Skepticism of the Third Kind

650

Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell

651

Dr. Wallace Sampson - Science Meets Alternative Medicine

652

Joe Nickell - Aliens and Abductions

653

Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil?

654

Marci Hamilton - Religion and the Rule of Law

655

Chris Mooney - The Republican War on Science

656

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

657

Max Maven - Magic and Skepticism

658

Ibn Warraq - Why I Am Not a Muslim

659

Susan Jacoby - The History of American Secularism

660

Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

661

Joe Nickell - Skeptical Inquiry vs. Debunking

662

Paul Kurtz - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?