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  1. Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

    Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things — from alien abductions to dowsing rods — boils down to two of the brain’s most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.

    Michael Shermer debunks myths, superstitions and urban legends, and explains why we believe them. Along with publishing Skeptic Magazine, he’s author of Why People Believe Weird Things.

    http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_the_pattern_behind_self_deception.html

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  2. New Humanist Podcast March 2011

    In the return of the New Humanist podcast, editor Caspar Melville and news editor Paul Sims talk you through the latest news from the world of faith and faithfulness.

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  3. The Geek’s Guide To The Galaxy Episode 5

    John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley — Skeptoid’s Brian Dunning Debunks Crystal Skulls and Bigfootology in Episode 5 of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Brian Dunning, host of the Skeptoid podcast, joins us to discuss critical thinking and its application in everything from alien abductions to medicine in the movies, plus Dave and John apply a little critical thinking of their own.

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  4. Skeptics with a K - Episode #039 « The Merseyside Skeptics Society

    The BFG, hot sweet tea, dog heart slices and Kirsty Wark. Also Edward “West End” Jenner, homeopaths in Europe, Betelgeuse, the Apocalypse, and £11 worth of bull semen.

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  5. Pod Delusion Extra - London SITP - Chris Snowdon

    Chris Snowdon gives his critique of The Spirit Level at London Skeptics in the Pub. Recorded 13th January 2011.

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  6. Strange Quarks: Series 1, Episode 1

    The very first episode of Strange Quarks is out! Simon Singh talks to us about libel reform, skepticism, alternative medicine, and his appearance in Robin Ince’s "Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People" this year; while Simon Perry explains how he’s been using regulation to make life difficult for quacks. This week’s guest report is by Dr*T.

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  7. Atheists on Religion: AC Grayling and Tim Crane at the LSE

    For the last 150 years or so European philosophers and sociologists have tended to regard religion as just one more pre-scientific myth and superstition that has had its day, and likely to wither on the vine of History. This view, the secularization thesis, seems today to be in poor shape. Not only does there appear to be no sign of withering, still less a clear path of scientific and rational progress, but religion seems to be reviving. Classic atheist criticisms of religion tend today to sound increasingly strident and dogmatic. In this dialogue two of Britain’s leading philosophers who are also convinced atheists will explore the continued attractions of religious belief and its place in a European world whose secular character is itself today in question.

    From http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm

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  8. The Podsubstatiation – A Pod Delusion Relief-O-Matic Special

    Last night as part of the Protest the Pope campaign, a charity gig called Relief-o-matic was organised by the British Humanist Association. I was there and excitingly, got to speak to many well known names – so I present a special edition podcast for the Protest the Pope Campaign.

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  9. Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club

    Robin Ince is a comedian and writer. For the last two years he has been the host of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People. His Radio 4 show with Professor Brian Cox, The Infinite Monkey Cage, has just finished it’s second series. Robin has recently written a book, Robin Ince’s Bad Book Club, which casts a critical eye over Don Estelle’s autobiography, tales of giant killer crabs, and romance novels set in the Antarctic.

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  10. Skeptoid episode 219: Stalin’s Human-Ape Hybrids

    It was the Soviet dictator’s dream: Soldiers with no fear, with superhuman strength and endurance, who would follow any order, eat anything, and ignore pain or injury. Workers who could do the labor of ten men without complaint, with no thought of personal time off, and no desire for pay.

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