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

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

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