Big Picture Science: Skeptic Check, Beast Of

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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,

• Bruce HoodThe 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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