Skeptic Check, Beast Of

Podcast Episode Summary

Zombies, aliens, Bigfoot, oh my!! We’ve covered – or rather uncovered – them all and more on Skeptic Check, our monthly look of critical thinking. And now we’ve collected enough strange encounters to assemble a sordid retrospective of sorts.

Sharpen your brain, it’s Skeptic Check, Beast Of. But don’t take our word for it!

Guests:

• Phil Plait – Skeptic and keeper of Discover Magazine’s blog, badastronomy.com
• Bruce Hood – Cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and author of The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs
• Susan Jacoby – Author of The Age of American Unreason
• Steve Silberman – Contributing editor, Wired Magazine, author of “The Placebo Problem” in the September 2009 issue
• Mary Pope-Handy – Estate Agent, Silicon Valley and keeper of the website hauntedrealestate.com
• Jim Underdown – Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West – Los Angeles
• Paul Offit – Pediatrician, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure
• Stephen Schneider – Climate scientist, Stanford University
• Brendan Riley – Assistant professor of English, Columbia College, Chicago

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