Last June, I know I blogged about Skeptic.com, the Skeptics Society website containing educational articles and ideas regarding controversial issues, revolutionary ideas, extraordinary claims and simple promotion of science. I’ve always been a fan of the site that’s why I always go back for more and more readings.
And though their official podcast, Skepticality, has already been around since 2005, I’ve only recently became hooked on it. Also, it helped that I have a phone that can play mp3 files, so that I can listen to the podcasts even when I’m away from the computer.
Hosts of the show are Derek Colanduno and Swoopy. I find them both funny without having to try too hard to bring life to the show. Well, actually, they don’t have to try too much because of the lineup of the guests in their show can really make you listen: Sam Harris (author of The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and Future of Reason and Letter to a Christian Nation), Philip Zimbardo (author of the book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, a book in which he tells findings from an experiment done in ’70s, the Stanford Prison Experiment, which is one of the most important experiments done in the history of social sciences and one that cannot be repeated today because of the horrific results), and, of course, Michael Shermer (director of Skeptic Society and author of the book Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design).
My favorite’s got to be the May 29th episode, a Visit To The Trenches of Nontheism:
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