Category: Interview

Carol Tavris’s book with Elliot Aronson, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me), has just been published in a third edition with a lengthy added chapter, “Dissonance, Democracy, and the Demagogue.” This article is based on her Skeptical Inquirer Presents live online conversation on August 27, 2020, with host Leighann Lord,with some updates and revisions …

Mark Lynas is a British environmentalist who has written books on climate, nuclear energy, GMOs, and how science has changed his mind. Climate change has been featured in many of his books; his latest, Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency, is a new and updated edition. It outlines what lies ahead with every …

Dr. H. Gilbert Welch is an American physician and cancer screening researcher. As a former professor at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, he has published many peer-reviewed papers about the harms of early detection and specifically of cancer screening—the systematic search for cancer before it causes symptoms. Welch is also a …

“Oh my gosh, Carrie. I just had a shady experience with an alternative cancer treatment hospital, thirty minutes south of the California/Mexican border.” Those were the first words of an email I received from a cancer nurse recently. Nurse K, as I’ll call him, had been in touch here and there as he helped me …

You were asked how to treat a friend who ardently believes in the paranormal. You said, “Be kind. Be kind. They believe because they need to believe. Be compassionate.”

I took up being Harry Houdini, though I never claimed to be him. As a matter of fact, during my career I broke a couple of his records.

Physicist and CSI Fellow Mark Boslough interviewed noted climatologist and geophysicist Michael Mann, who spoke at CSICon Las Vegas.

In an interview with Lindsay Beyerstein on the Point of Inquiry podcast, Offit spoke about the early 2015 measles outbreak at Disneyland, the anti-vaccination movement, and the importance of vaccination.

An eighty-six-year-old skeptic, secular humanist, and atheist, Randi has investigated paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims for much of his career.

Acclaimed Harvard psychologist and best-selling author Steven Pinker was interviewed by Indre Viskontas and Chris Mooney in a rare live edition of Point of Inquiry, the flagship podcast of our Center for Inquiry. Here is the majority of that interview.

What causes the startling, unbidden perception of something that seems very real but has no material existence outside of our own minds? The “poet-laureate of medicine,” Oliver Sacks, takes us through the looking glass and into the fascinating world of hallucinations.