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1

Round Trip to Christiantown

2

Ann Druyan

3

Telepathy Tapes

4

From Under a Guru's Thumb | Chanchal Garg

5

SCOTUS Unbalanced

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Science v. Creationism with Eugenie Scott

7

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

8

Will Potter

9

Taking Inspiration from Greek History With Evaggelos Vallianatos

10

A Primer on Cold Reading

11

David Miles on Point of Inquiry

12

Steve Hill on Point of Inquiry

13

Robert Sapolsky POI

14

Leo Igwe on Point of Inquiry

15

There Are Definitely Atheists in Fox Holes

16

Kate Cohen on Atheism and the Rewards of Honesty

17

Sarah An Myers on Secularism and the Millennial Mind

18

Vaccine Hesitancy With Filmmaker Scott Kennedy

19

To The Temple of Tranquility, and Step on It

20

Supreme Injustice

21

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

22

Getting to Know US Congressman Jared Huffman

23

The Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project

24

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

25

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

26

New Discovery in the Chemistry of Life

27

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

28

Alice Greczyn on Deconversion and Her Escape From Extremist Christianity

29

Skepticism - Behind the Scenes

30

Steven Pinker Discusses Rationality and Humanist Values

31

Timothy Caulfield on the Infodemic and Spread of Misinformation

32

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

33

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

34

The Case That Jesus Never Existed

35

David McAfee - Hi, I'm an Atheist!

36

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

37

Banachek - From the Inside of Being a Mentalist

38

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

39

The Rise of the Nones with Ryan Burge

40

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

41

Inside the Group Investigating Extraordinary Paranormal and Supernatural Claims

42

Annabelle Gurwitch on Living Through Ups and Downs

43

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

44

Behind The Mind of a Conspiracy Theorist

45

An Atheist and a Christian Walk Into a Bar

46

The Trouble with Christmas for Atheists with Tom Flynn

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

Dr. Raymond Hall on Physicsfun and Teaching Critical Thinking

53

The Brazen Atheist Erin Louis on Countering Conspiracists With Critical Thinking

54

Steven Hassan on Breaking Down The Cult of Trump

55

Anthony Pinn on Religion, Oppression, and Humanists

56

Scientology in Hollywood | A Guided Tour

57

Monuments to Misinformation | The Ark Experience & Creation Museum

58

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

59

Ian Harris on Comedy, Skeptical Audiences, and Atheism

60

Mandisa Thomas on Black Nonbelievers and the Atheist Community

61

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

62

Recognizing Misinformation and Staying Safe from Coronavirusa

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Professor Elizabeth Loftus on False Memories

64

Where Are We In The Battle For Church State Separation

65

Is a Good God Logically Possible? | James Sterba

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Playwright and Actor Ian Ruskin on Thomas Paine

67

Dawkins on his new Book Outgrowing God

68

Professor Chris French - Anomalistic Psychology and Conspiracy Theories in Politics

69

Richard Wiseman on the Skeptics Movement and Tricking People

70

ECSO President, Claire Klingenberg on the State of Skepticism

71

How Defy Ventures Reduces Recidivism with Rehabilitation

72

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

73

Angela Saini on the Return of Race Science

74

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

75

Jerry Minor - From Jehovah's Witness to Comedian

76

Clearing Up the Concept of Risk Assessment

77

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

78

Why Do People Love Umami but Fear MSG?

79

Diving into the Lawsuit Against Walmart and Fraudulent Homeopathic Medicines

80

Meet Science for the People

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

Massimo Pigliucci and Susan Blackmore on Scientism and Subjectivity

85

The Secret Sting Operation to Expose Celeb Psychics with Susan Gerbic

86

Mark Boslough on the Dangers of Climate Change and Destructive Asteroids

87

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

88

The New Stars of Skeptical Investigation

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

Lee Billings on the Search for Life in a Silent Universe

96

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

97

Space Reporter Loren Grush: Hope and Hubris in Space Exploration

98

Elizabeth Kolbert on Coming to Grips with a Warming Planet

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

Phoebe Maltz Bovy: Check Your Privilege-Checking

105

Mile-High Violence: Judith Matloff on Mountain Conflict

106

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

107

Lawrence Krauss: Accidental Origins

108

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

109

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

110

Gary Taubes: The Bittersweet Truth about the Dangers of Sugar

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

Daniel Dennett: The Magic of Consciousness…Without the Magic

115

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

116

Should Atheists Celebrate Christmas? Tom Flynn Debates Lindsay Beyerstein

117

Amanda Marcotte on the Trump Transition and the Reshaping of America

118

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

119

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

120

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

121

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

122

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

123

Comprehending the Incomprehensible: Samuel Arbesman on Rapidly Accelerating Technology

124

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

125

Cats and the Domestication of Humans, with Abigail Tucker

126

Trolling Unplugged: Benjamin Radford on the Creepy Clown Craze

127

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

128

Doomsday Dread: The End of Civilization, with Phil Torres

129

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

130

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

131

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

132

In the Weeds with Emily Willingham on Medical Cannabis

133

Faking Your Own Death: Elizabeth Greenwood on Death Fraud

134

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

135

Competitive Cupping: David Gorski on Pseudoscience at the Olympics

136

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Facebook and Social Media Silencing

137

Donald Trump's Dirty Laundry, with David Cay Johnston

138

Wendy Kaminer: Dangerous Spaces for Free Speech

139

Ali Rizvi: Islam and Identity for an Atheist Muslim

140

Digitally Aware: David Levy on Mindfulness in an Information Overload

141

Surviving the Beauty Culture, with Autumn Whitefield-Mandrano

142

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

143

Bloody Bangladesh: Michael De Dora on the Attacks on Secularists

144

Jessica Valenti: The Measure of a Woman's Worth

145

Susan Jacoby on Conversions, Both Profound and Practical

146

Hooked on a Stigma: Maia Szalavitz on Understanding Addiction

147

An Unrecognizable Reformation: Shadi Hamid on Islamic Exceptionalism

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

David Silverman: The Relentless Ascent of Atheism

154

Surviving Death: Ann Neumann on the Ethical Landscape of Dying

155

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

156

Former White Supremacist Arno Michaelis: Understanding Hate, Overcoming Fear

157

The Cunning Art of Con Artistry, with Maria Konnikova

158

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

159

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

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

Religious Belief, Naturally Selected - with John C. Wathey

166

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

167

Islam, Paris, and Polarization - with Michael Brooks

168

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

169

Steve Silberman: Evolving Attitudes Toward Autism

170

Mexico's Drug Policy in Flux, with Sylvia Longmire

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

The Mysteries of Parkinson's, with Jon Palfreman

176

Trials and Textbooks: Jeffrey Selman on Fighting Creationism in Schools

177

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

178

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

179

Invisible Catastrophes: Erik Loomis on the Consequences of Outsourcing

180

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

181

Eugenie Scott: Decrypting Pseudoscience

182

Bred to Suffer: Paul Shapiro on Animals in Factory Farming

183

Dealing with Distraction in the Modern World, with Matt Crawford

184

Ta-Nehisi Coates: A Country Built on Black Bodies

185

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

186

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

187

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

188

Taslima Nasrin: A Woman of Courage without a Country

189

Bangladeshi Blogger Asif Mohiuddin: Attacked, Imprisoned, and Undeterred

190

Richard Dawkins: LIVE at the Reason for Change Conference

191

Overwhelmed by Celebrity Culture, with Tim Caulfield

192

Anti-Abortion Terrorism and Free Speech, with David Cohen

193

The Benefits of Religion Without the Belief, with Jeff Rasely

194

Michael Specter on the Gluten-Free Fad

195

Alex Garland: Ex Machina and the Question of Consciousness

196

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

197

Advice for the Teenage Atheist, with David Seidman

198

Peter Singer: Maximizing Morality with Reason

199

The Misinterpretations of the Supreme Court, with Ian Millhiser

200

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

201

Phil Zuckerman: Those Normal, Upstanding Nonbelievers

202

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

203

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

204

The World Human Extinction Will Leave Behind, with Michael Tennesen

205

Eli Lake: How Islamic is 'Islamic Extremism'?

206

False Memories Creating False Criminals, with Dr. Julia Shaw

207

Leighann Lord: Courageous Comedy as a Safe Space

208

Laci Green: Truths and Myths about Sex and Love

209

Letting Go of the Soul, with Julien Musolino

210

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

211

The Women Spies of the Civil War, with Karen Abbott

212

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

213

Penalizing Pregnancy: Lynn Paltrow on the Fight for Reproductive Justice

214

​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

215

Greta Christina on Coping with Death, No Afterlife Required

216

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

217

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

218

Deciphering Alan Turing, with Andrew Hodges

219

Getting Over Racial Anxiety, with Rachel D. Godsil

220

Surviving Saddam and Confronting Islam, with Faisal Saeed Al Mutar

221

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

222

Ebola in the Age of Epidemics - Special Live Episode

223

Halloween Extra: 18th Annual Houdini Séance with Joe Nickell

224

Pro-Choice Without Apology, with Katha Pollitt

225

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

226

The Theology of ISIS, with Dr. Adam Silverman

227

Austin Dacey

228

Mark Oppenheimer on Misogyny in the Freethought Community

229

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

230

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

231

Sam Harris: Seeking Transcendence Without Religion

232

Dr. Adia Benton on The West African Ebola Outbreak

233

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

234

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

235

Laurel Braitman on Animals and Mental Illness

236

David Ropeik: Airplane Disasters and the Psychology of Risk

237

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

238

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

239

The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby--With Brian Leiter

240

Montel Williams: Leading a Surge on the Veterans Administration

241

Marlene Zuk: The Paleo Delusion

242

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

243

Janet Mock, Redefining Realness, Biology, Sex and Gender

244

Negin Farsad: Red States and Muslim Comedy

245

Capital Punishment in Crisis with Dahlia Lithwick

246

Farzana Hassan on Islamic Extremism and the Boko Haram

247

Science Denialism with Donald Prothero

248

Talking Nerdy (And Ethically) with Cara Santa Maria

249

Coming Out Atheist - Greta Christina

250

A Trek Through Skepticism with The Amazing Randi

251

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

252

Ann Druyan: Telling the Story of the Cosmos

253

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

254

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

255

Cancer Quack Stanislaw Burzynski: Exposed

256

The Philosophy of Belief with Rebecca Goldstein

257

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

258

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

259

Amy Tuteur, MD

260

Stanton Peele, PhD - Addiction and Recovery

261

Greg Dworkin, MD - Founding Editor of Flu Wiki

262

J.R. Havlan - Writer for The Daily Show

263

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

264

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

265

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

266

The War on Christmas

267

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

268

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

269

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

270

Gadadhara Pandit Dasa - First Hindu Chaplain for Columbia University

271

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

272

Bill Nye The Science Guy

273

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

274

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

275

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

276

Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

277

Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

278

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

279

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

280

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

281

Ethan Zuckerman - Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection

282

Mario Livio - Brilliant Blunders From Darwin to Einstein

283

Daniel Dennett - Tools for Thinking

284

Stephan Lewandowsky - The Mind of the Conspiracy Theorist

285

Katha Pollitt - Is Religion Inherently Sexist?

286

Michael Levi - Fracking, Pipelines, and Science

287

Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday

288

Mary Roach - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

289

Scott Atran - What Makes a Terrorist?

290

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

291

A.C. Grayling - The God Argument

292

Frans de Waal - The Bonobo and the Atheist

293

Carol Tavris - The Science of Sex and Gender

294

Amanda Marcotte - Skepticism Needs Feminism

295

Mark Lynas - Science and the Left

296

Matthew Hutson - The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking

297

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

298

Susan Jacoby - Freethought's Forgotten Hero

299

Carl Zimmer - Viruses and Other Little Things

300

Paul Krugman - Science and Pseudoscience in Economics

301

Sean Carroll - The Particle at the End of the Universe

302

Maria Konnikova - How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

303

Phil Plait - #Notpocalypse!

304

Scott Sigler - Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Science Fiction

305

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

306

David Brin - Uplifting Existence

307

Bill McKibben - Do the Math

308

Samuel Arbesman - The Half-Life of Facts

309

Steven Novella - Exposing Medical Nonsense

310

Michael Gordin - The Pseudoscience Wars

311

Jacques Berlinerblau - How to Be Secular

312

Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations

313

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

314

Bruce Hood - Superstitions in Baseball

315

Science and the 2012 Election - Shawn Otto and Matthew Chapman

316

Lisa Randall - Knocking on Heaven's Door

317

Massimo Pigliucci - Living Philosophically

318

Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth about Dishonesty

319

Phil Zuckerman - The Sociology of Irreligion

320

Rick Hayes-Roth - TruthMarket

321

Peter Ditto - Morals, Facts, and Libertarians

322

Temple Grandin - The Science of Livestock Animal Welfare

323

Arie Kruglanski - The Science of Closed-Mindedness

324

Joe Romm - Language Intelligence

325

Peter Montgomery - 12 Rules for Mixing Religion and Politics

326

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

327

Kerry Emanuel - Conservative for Climate Science

328

David Niose - Nonbeliever Nation

329

Tina Dupuy - Skepticism Meets Comedy

330

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

331

Stuart Firestein - How Ignorance Drives Science

332

Chris Hayes - Twilight of the Elites

333

Cara Santa Maria - Talk Nerdy to Us

334

Will Gervais - This is Your Brain on Religion

335

Christof Koch - Consciousness and Free Will

336

Johan Braeckman - The Rise of Islamic Creationism

337

Greta Christina - Why Are You Atheists So Angry?

338

M.G. Lord - The Accidental Feminist

339

Naomi Oreskes - Neoliberalism and the Denial of Global Warming

340

Austin Dacey - The Future of Blasphemy

341

Chris Mooney - The Republican Brain

342

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Space Chronicles

343

David Morrison - Cosmic Impact Hazard

344

Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind

345

Ari Rabin-Havt - The Fox Effect

346

Sean Faircloth - Attack of the Theocrats

347

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

348

Michael Mann - The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars

349

Dan Kahan - The Great Ideological Asymmetry Debate

350

Lawrence Krauss - A Universe from Nothing

351

Brian Malow - The Science Comedian

352

Eugenie Scott - Defending Climate Education

353

Brian Greene - The Fabric of the Cosmos

354

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

355

John Cook - The Debunking Handbook

356

Daniel Dennett - The Scientific Study of Religion

357

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

358

Scott Gavura - Dispensing Skepticism

359

Jonathan Weiler - Authoritarians Versus Reality

360

Tom Flynn - The Trouble With Christmas

361

Bill Nye - In Praise of Reason (and Skepticism)

362

Seth Shostak - ET, Call SETI

363

Jonathan Moreno - Our New Biopolitics

364

Richard C. Johnson - Religion: The Failed Narrative

365

Shawn Otto - The Assault on Science

366

CSICon - The Conference Dedicated To Scientific Inquiry And Critical Thinking

367

Indre Viskontas - The Miracle Detective

368

Austin Dacey - Rock the Theocrats

369

Lee Salisbury - From Faith to Critical Thinking

370

Rachel Tabachnick - Exposing Dominionism

371

John Dodes - The Tooth About Dentistry

372

Scott Atran - Violent Extremism and Sacred Values

373

Dan Barker - U-Turn on the Road to Damascus

374

Did Reason Evolve For Arguing? - Hugo Mercier

375

Donald Prothero - The Psychology of Cryptozoologists

376

David Frum and Kenneth Silber - Conservatives and Science

377

Jaco Gericke - Confessions of a Died-Again Christian

378

Rebecca Watson - Skepticism and Feminism

379

Richard Wiseman - Paranormality

380

Matthew Chapman - The Ledge

381

D.M. Murdock - The Christ Conspiracy

382

Rick Perlstein - Is There a Republican War on History?

383

Jean Mercer - Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

384

Michael Shermer - The Believing Brain

385

Scott Lohman - Star Trek and Humanism

386

Jonathan Kay - Among the Truthers

387

Robert Sheaffer - It's a Conspiracy

388

Chris Mooney - Accommodationism and the Psychology of Belief

389

Bo Bennett - Christian Nontheism

390

George Lakoff - Enlightenments, Old and New

391

Josh Rosenau - The Evolution Revolution

392

Nuclear Risk and Reason - David Brenner and David Ropeik

393

August Berkshire - Minnesota Atheist

394

Lawrence Krauss - Quantum Man

395

Cheryl Russell - Society, Statistics and Skepticism

396

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

397

Frank Zindler - The Christ Myth

398

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science

399

Michael Cicchini - Myths, Misconceptions, and the Law

400

Dan Kahan - The American Culture War of Fact

401

Don Webb - Devil's Advocate

402

Art Caplan - Bioethics Comes of Age

403

Joe Nickell - The Other Side

404

The Irrationality Vaccine - Seth Mnookin

405

Hector Avalos - The End of Biblical Studies

406

Barry Kosmin - One Nation, Losing God

407

Reed Esau - SkeptiCamp: The Unconference

408

Why Facts Fail - Brendan Nyhan

409

Roger Nygard - The Nature of Existence

410

The Future of Atheism: Beyond the Question of God

411

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

412

John Abraham and Scott Mandia - Climate Science Strikes Back

413

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

414

Massimo Pigliucci - Nonsense on Stilts

415

Warren Bonett - Down Under Reason

416

Carl Zimmer - This is Your Brain on iPad

417

John Shook - The God Debates

418

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

419

Steve Spangler - Hands-on Science

420

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

421

Jen Roth - Atheist Against Abortion

422

S. Jay Olshansky - Can Science Extend Human Life?

423

Brian Brushwood - Scams, Swindles and Skepticism

424

Richard Wrangham - Rediscovering Fire

425

Robert M. Price - Is the Bible Mein Kampf?

426

Alexander Zaitchik - Glenn Beck's War on Reason

427

Andrew Mayne - Magic, Mischief and Mayhem

428

Francesca Grifo - Science Under Obama

429

Tom Quinn - O Sweet Jesus

430

Phil Plait - Death from the Skies

431

Adam Savage - Skeptic (Confirmed)

432

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

433

Tom Flynn - In Like Flynn

434

Bill McKibben - Our Strange New Eaarth

435

Tim Farley - What's the Harm?

436

Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt

437

S.T. Joshi - Fright and Freethought

438

Michael Specter - The Menace of Denialism

439

George Hrab - Soundtrack to Skepticism

440

Elaine Howard Ecklund - How Religious Are Scientists?

441

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

442

Deborah Blum - Murder and Chemistry in Jazz Age New York

443

Bob Carroll - Defining Skepticism

444

Eli Kintisch - Is Planet-Hacking Inevitable?

445

Thomas J.J. Altizer - The Death of God

446

Paul Kurtz - John Dewey and the Real Point of Inquiry

447

Scott Lilienfeld - Real Self-Help

448

Victor Stenger - Taking a Stand for Science and Reason

449

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

450

Robert J. Miller - The Jesus Seminar

451

Michael Mann - Unprecedented Attacks on Climate Research

452

Victor Stenger - The New Atheists

453

Ian Rowland - The Cold Hard Facts of Cold Reading

454

Paul Offit - The Costs of Vaccine Denialism

455

Banachek - Mentalism and Skepticism

456

Frank Schaeffer - Crazy for God

457

The 13th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

458

Randy Olson - Dont Be Such a Scientist

459

Darrel Ray - The God Virus

460

Chris Mooney - Unscientific America

461

Russell Blackford - 50 Voices of Disbelief

462

Ben Radford - Skepticism 2.0

463

Greg Craven - What is the Worst That Could Happen?

464

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

465

J.D. Trout - The Empathy Gap

466

Jeff Sharlet - The Family

467

William Little - The Psychic Tourist

468

Paul Kurtz - A Kinder, Gentler Secularism

469

Benjamin Wiker - The Darwin Myth

470

Ron Lindsay - International Blasphemy Day

471

Mark Blumberg - Freaks of Nature

472

Zachary Shore - Blunder

473

James Randi - The Faith Healers

474

Ayaan Hirsi Ali - The Caged Virgin

475

Tom Flynn - Secular Humanism versus . . . Atheism?

476

Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save

477

Tom Clark - Scientific Naturalism and the Illusion of Free Will

478

Ray Hyman - The Elusive Quarry

479

Susan Sackett - The Secular Humanism of Star Trek

480

Michael Shermer - Science, Skepticism and Libertarianism

481

Dale McGowan - Raising Freethinkers

482

David Koepsell - Who Owns You?

483

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

484

Paul Kurtz - Science and the Limits of the New Skepticism

485

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

486

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

487

Dacher Keltner - Born to Be Good

488

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

489

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Pluto Files

490

Angie McQuaig - Camp Inquiry

491

Eric Maisel - The Atheists Way

492

Jerry A. Coyne - Why Evolution Is True

493

Norm Allen - Skepticism and Black History

494

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

495

David J Linden - The Accidental Mind

496

John W. Loftus - Why I Became an Atheist

497

Kendrick Frazier - The Skeptical Inquirer

498

Christopher Burns- Deadly Decisions

499

Ginger Campbell - Podcasting Neuroscience

500

Simon Singh - Trick or Treatment

501

Tom Flynn - Science Fiction and Atheism

502

Paul Kurtz - Forbidden Fruit

503

Solomon Schimmel - Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth

504

Solomon Schimmel - The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs

505

Jennifer Michael Hecht - Doubt

506

James McGaha - Lights in the Sky

507

Peter Singer - Vegetarianism and the Scientific Outlook

508

Peter Singer - Ethics in an Age of Darwin

509

The 12th Annual CFI Houdini Seance

510

Todd C. Riniolo - When Good Thinking Goes Bad

511

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

512

Lawrence M. Krauss - The Fear of Physics

513

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

514

Greg Long - The Making of Bigfoot

515

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

516

Andrew Fraknoi - The Cosmic History of Your Body

517

Barbara Oakley - Social Psychology, Genes and Human Evil

518

Ronald A. Lindsay - Future Bioethics

519

Rev. Michael Dowd - The Marriage of Science and Religion

520

Rev. Michael Dowd - Thank God For Evolution

521

Allan Mazur - Implausible Beliefs

522

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

523

Lewis Wolpert - The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

524

Joe Nickell - Humanistic Skepticism

525

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

526

Ben Radford - Paranormal Investigation

527

PZ Myers - Expelled from Expelled

528

PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

529

Susan Jacoby - The Age of American Unreason

530

Taner Edis - Science and Nonbelief

531

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

532

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

533

Paul Kurtz - The Transnational Center for Inquiry

534

Austin Dacey - Moral Values After Darwin

535

Chris Hedges - I Dont Believe in Atheists

536

John Shook - Naturalism and the Scientific Outlook

537

Michael Shermer - The Mind of The Market

538

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

539

Marc Hauser - Moral Minds

540

Sir Harold Kroto - Science Education and Freethinking

541

Austin Dacey - The Secular Conscience

542

Norm Allen - African American Religiosity, Humanism, and Politics

543

Robert M. Price - The Paperback Apocalypse

544

Matthew C. Nisbet - Communicating about Science and Religion

545

Tom Flynn - The Science vs. Religion Warfare Thesis

546

Lynne Kelly - The Skeptics Guide to the Paranormal

547

Tory Christman - Anti-Science Scientology?

548

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

549

John Allen Paulos - Irreligion

550

Colin McGinn - Secular Philosophy and Skepticism

551

Aubrey de Grey - Ending Aging

552

Dr. Stephen Barrett - Watching Out for Quackery

553

Lawrence Krauss - Seducing for Science

554

Paul Kurtz - Ethics for the Nonreligious

555

Student Freethought Leaders Speak Out

556

Richard Dawkins - Science and the New Atheism

557

Keith Stanovich - Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin

558

Richard Wiseman - Quirkology

559

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Communicating Science to the Public

560

Michael Behe - The Edge of Evolution

561

The 11th Annual Houdini Seance at CFI

562

Steven Pinker - The Stuff of Thought

563

Edward Tabash - Why There Really Is No God

564

Barbara Oakley - Evil Genes

565

Alan Dershowitz - Blasphemy

566

Joe Nickell - The New Idolatry

567

Massimo Pigliucci - Making Sense of Evolution

568

Paul Kurtz - The New Atheism and Secular Humanism

569

Madeleine Van Hecke - Why Smart People Do Dumb Things

570

Dr. Francis Collins - The Language of God

571

Garrett G. Fagan - Archaeological Fantasies

572

Chris Mooney - Storm World

573

Peter H. Gilmore - Science and Satanism

574

Carol Tavris - Mistakes Were Made

575

Peter Irons - God on Trial

576

Ophelia Benson - Why Truth Matters

577

Philip Kitcher - Living with Darwin

578

Christopher Hitchens - God Is Not Great

579

Natalie Angier - The Canon

580

Tom Clark - Encountering Naturalism

581

R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Jesus Project

582

Chris Wisnia - Dr. DeBunko

583

David Triggle - Science and the Public

584

Jennifer Michael Hecht - The Happiness Myth

585

David Koepsell - Why Secular Humanism?

586

Joe Nickell - The Relics of the Christ

587

Hemant Mehta - I Sold My Soul on Ebay

588

Taner Edis - Science and Religion in Islam

589

Matthew C. Nisbet - Selling Science to the Public

590

Phil Plait - The Bad Astronomer

591

Joe Nickell - Debunking in Hollywood?

592

Nica Lalli - Nothing: Something to Believe In

593

Susan Haack - Defending Science -- Within Reason

594

Tawfik Hamid - My Life as a Muslim Terrorist

595

Robert M. Price - Jesus: The Failed Hypothesis

596

Victor Stenger - God: The Failed Hypothesis

597

Steven Pinker - Evolutionary Psychology and Human Nature

598

Barbara Forrest - The Wedge of Intelligent Design

599

Peter Singer - The Way We Eat

600

Solomon Schimmel - Specious Proofs for Quranic Divinity

601

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Death by Black Hole

602

John Shook - Scientific Naturalism and its Discontents

603

Eugene Burger - Magic and Mystery

604

Ann Druyan - Carl Sagan and The Varieties of Scientific Experience

605

R. Joseph Hoffmann - The Scientific Study of Religion

606

Tom Flynn - The Real War on Christmas

607

Susan Blackmore - In Search of the Light

608

Paul Kurtz - What is the Point of Inquiry

609

Barry Kosmin - The Scientific Study of Secularism

610

Norm Allen - Science, Humanism, and the Black Community

611

Michelle Goldberg - Kingdom Coming

612

Richard Wiseman - Theatre of Science

613

Chris Mooney - Science, Politics, and the Midterm Election

614

The CFI 10th Annual Houdini Seance - Halloween 2006

615

Salman Rushdie - Secular Values, Human Rights and Islamism

616

Jill Tarter - Are We Alone?

617

Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion

618

Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation

619

Robert M. Price - The Reason Driven Life

620

Michael Shermer - Why Darwin Matters

621

Ann Druyan - Science, Wonder, and Spirituality

622

Paul Kurtz - World War and World Religions

623

Amy-Jill Levine - Who Was Jesus of Nazareth

624

Joe Nickell - Ancient Astronauts and the Nazca Lines

625

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Sky Is Not the Limit

626

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

627

Bill Cooke - Is Scientific Humanism Anti-Religious?

628

Derek Araujo - A Decade of Campus Freethought Activism

629

Barry Beyerstein - The Sins of Big Pharma

630

Thomas Kida - Dont Believe Everything You Think

631

Paul Kurtz - The Courage to Become

632

James Randi - Science, Magic, and Future of Skepticism

633

Tom Flynn - The Rise of the Non-Religious

634

Jerry Coyne - The Case Against Intelligent Design

635

Cathleen Falsani - The God Factor

636

Joe Nickell - Psychic Detectives

637

R. Joseph Hoffmann - Examining The Da Vinci Code

638

Matt Nisbet - Framing Science

639

Paul Kurtz - Science and Planetary Ethics

640

Edward Tabash - True Meaning of Church/State Separation

641

Eugenie Scott - Evolution vs. Religious Belief?

642

Bill Nye - Changing The World With Science Education

643

Sam Harris - The Mortal Dangers of Religion

644

Sam Harris - The End of Faith

645

Herbert Hauptman - The Joy of Science

646

Jamy Ian Swiss - Psychics, Science, and Magic

647

Susan Jacoby - American Freethought Heritage

648

Paul Kurtz - Skepticism of the Third Kind

649

Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell

650

Dr. Wallace Sampson - Science Meets Alternative Medicine

651

Joe Nickell - Aliens and Abductions

652

Richard Dawkins - The Root of All Evil?

653

Marci Hamilton - Religion and the Rule of Law

654

Chris Mooney - The Republican War on Science

655

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

656

Max Maven - Magic and Skepticism

657

Ibn Warraq - Why I Am Not a Muslim

658

Susan Jacoby - The History of American Secularism

659

Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

660

Joe Nickell - Skeptical Inquiry vs. Debunking

661

Paul Kurtz - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?