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Hosted by Centre For Inquiry Canada · 🇺🇸 US · EN-CA · 124 episodes
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A podcast for scientific, skeptical, secular, rational and humanistic inquiry. They've got answers? We've got questions.
Centre For Inquiry Canada hosts The Podcast For Inquiry, a science show with 124 episodes published.
Dr. Kelly Weinersmith ( @FuSchmu ) is the co-author (with her husband Zach) of Soonish and A City on Mars. Kelly maintains that while having humans living off Earth would be awesome, we're simply not ready for it yet. Sh
After years of research, David Fitzgerald has come to a surprising conclusion: that all the main characters in the world's major religions are entirely the product of human imagination. While many have long doubted the s
All life on earth ultimately depends on energy and how it flows between biological and geochemical systems on the planet. Katherine Richardson and her team identified nine boundaries which need to be respected if our pla
Lizzie Wade is the author of APOCALYPSE : How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures. She is a science writer focusing on archaeology and anthropology, a contributing correspondent for Science, and h
Leslie spoke about CFIC for a few minutes at the 2026 WeCanReason conference in early May. The brief talk wasn't recorded but seemed to resonate with many attendees, so today's bonus episode is Leslie recreating the spee
Dr. Caroline Brookfield is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Caroline helps "non-creatives" connect with a creative mindset to build confidence in change, buffer against burnout, and leverage individual originality f
Dr. Christopher Labos is a cardiologist and an affiliate member of the Department of Global and Public Health of McGill University. He is a columnist with the Montreal Gazette and Medscape, featured on the Sunday Morning
Dr. Anthony Pinn is a professor, prolific author and much sought-after lecturer committed to academic rigor. Known internationally as a leading expert in the field of African American religion, Dr. Pinn's teaching and re
Richard Carrier is the author of Sense and Goodness without God, On the Historicity of Jesus, The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire, and many other books, chapters, and articles. With a Ph.D. in ancient history from Co
Linda Silver Dranoff is a precedent-setting lawyer, an empowering author about law, public policy and women's rights, and a successful feminist activist for equality and family law reform. She is the author of Fairly Equ
No issue has split the secular community in Canada like Quebec's Bill 21. Several secular organizations have come out strongly in favour of the legislation, with some saying its only flaw being that it doesn't go far eno
In 1975, Najla Mohamed-Lamin's grandmother fled Moroccan troops entering Western Sahara. For 50 years, Najla's family, and 200,000 of the Saharawi people, have lived in refugee camps in western Algeria. Despite a clear l
Dr. Jackie Nemni is a physician specializing in respiratory medicine and spent decades looking after patients in the ICU. She retired from active practice in 2023 and has since been working part time as a MAiD assessor a
Jesse Brown is the founder and editor of Canadaland, Canada's largest independent podcast network. We start our conversation talking about the state of journalism in Canada, four years after Podcast for Inquiry's inaugur
Daniel is a professor of physics at UC Irvine, researching particle physics at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He is the co-host of the podcast 'Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe' and the author of several books ab
Dr. Rodney Schmaltz is a professor in the Department of Psychology at MacEwan University. His research focuses on the psychology of belief, with a particular interest in how people evaluate extraordinary claims. He is co
Steve Ghikadis is a Humanist Officiant, who conducts secular marriages, memorials, and other life affirming celebrations. Raised as a freethinker, Steve has been married to a Christian for over a decade. Steve serves as
Leslie's conversation with Jasmin Faulk begins with what Saudi Arabia was like when she was growing up, and what has and hasn't changed since then. Jasmin talks about the fire of youth, the wisdom that comes from age, an
Corporate scandals are depressingly common, and it's all too easy to chalk them up to individual bad apples. Unfortunately, this simple explanation is not accurate. Guido's research led him to write The Dark Pattern: The
Andrew Coyne (@acoyne) is a columnist for The Globe and Mail and author of The Crisis of Canadian Democracy. In today's episode, Andrew makes the case that Canadian democracy is headed for a crisis. He talks about the pr
Dr. Anthony Pinn
professor · Rice University
1 appearance on this show
Richard Carrier
1 appearance on this show
Jesse Brown
head coach of the boys Newcastle Racer Basketball team · Canadaland
1 appearance on this show
Daniel Whiteson
experimental high-energy physicist · UC Irvine
1 appearance on this show
Steve Ghikadis
Humanist Officiant, author, and speaker · Humanist Canada
1 appearance on this show
Guido Palazzo
co-author of The Dark Pattern · University of Lausanne
1 appearance on this show
Andrew Coyne
columnist · The Globe and Mail
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Hart
Gresham Professor of Geometry, Professor of Mathematics at Birkbeck, University of London · Simply Curated
1 appearance on this show
Donald Robertson
author, ancient philosophy expert, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist · Modern Stoicism
1 appearance on this show
Sabrina Little
philosopher, ultra-runner, author of The Examined Run
1 appearance on this show
Gretchen Morgenson
1 appearance on this show
Michel Virard
Association humaniste du Québec
1 appearance on this show
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