Skeptical Inquirer Audio Edition
autor: Center for Inquiry
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What We Talk About When We Talk about AI
What We Talk About When We Talk about AI
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Skeptical Inquirer Audio Edition brings the insightful articles from Skeptical Inquirer magazine directly to your ears. Covering topics in science, skepticism, and critical thinking, each episode features narrated versions of our most thought-provoking content. Perfect for those on the go, SI Audio Edition allows you to stay informed and inspired wherever you are.
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Skeptical Inquirer Audio Edition is produced at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, NY.
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- What We Talk About When We Talk about AI · 7 min · Řada 50Wendy M. Grossman argues that treating artificial intelligence as a single, humanlike entity blurs important distinctions between technologies and distracts from more immediate…
- Is Meditating Bad for You? · 16 min · Řada 50Stuart Vyse examines research into meditation's potential adverse effects, including anxiety, panic, sleep disruption, and difficulties that can interfere with daily life. Read…
- The Re-Re-Re-Re-Discovery of Noah's Ark · 14 min · Řada 50Benjamin Radford examines the recurring claims that Noah's Ark has been "rediscovered," arguing that these discoveries repeatedly rely on confirmation bias, pareidolia, poor…
- The Enhanced Games: A Commercial Legacy · 12 min · Řada 50Nick Tiller examines the Enhanced Games as less a revolutionary new frontier in human performance than a commercial venture designed to funnel customers toward the Enhanced…
- Tips for Your Psychic Reading · 13 min · Řada 50Susan Gerbic provides five tips for getting a psychic reading. Read this article and find accompanying references at…
- One Man's Midlife Crisis in a NatGeo Docuseries · 9 min · Řada 50Brian Kerby reviews Limitless: Live Better Now. National Geographic Docuseries, 2025, arguing that the National Geographic docuseries is less a serious exploration of science…
- Sounding the Alarm about Medical Misinformation · 4 min · Řada 50Katie Suleta reviews Everyone Else Is Lying to You: How Our Medical Establishment Weaponized Doubt to Spread COVID, Normalize Quackery, and Undermine Public Health by Jonathan…
- The Ghost in the iPhone · 9 min · Řada 50Christopher B. Steiner traces the history of nineteenth-century "spirit photography," focusing on William H. Mumler's famous photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln with the supposed…
- Selling Immune Tolerance as Disease · 13 min · Řada 50Andrea Love argues that direct-to-consumer "food sensitivity" tests are a lucrative form of pseudoscience that misrepresents IgG antibodies—markers of exposure and immune…
- Our AI Crisis Is Just a Symptom. It's Time to Fix the Root Cause · 19 min · Řada 50Melanie Trecek-King argues that the current panic over generative AI is largely a symptom of a much older media literacy crisis, not the root problem itself. She calls for…
- Why Worry? Unwarranted Concerns—and What a Practical Skeptic Can Do · 11 min · Řada 50Mick West argues that skeptics should help people distinguish between legitimate risks and unfounded worries without simply replacing one anxiety with another. Using examples…
- Critical Thinking as a Collective Endeavor: The 2026 LiliCon · 5 min · Řada 50Carlos Orsi recaps LiliCon 2026 at California State University Fresno. Read this article and find accompanying references at…
- The Science behind the Ouija Board: The Neuropsychological Basis of the Ideomotor Response · 7 min · Řada 50Malorie Mackey and Michael Maldonado explain how the ideomotor response provides a neurological and psychological explanation for Ouija boards and other divination tools. They…
- Debunking The Telepathy Tapes: The Role of Facilitator Behaviors · 14 min · Řada 50Janyce L. Boynton argues that The Telepathy Tapes revives long-discredited facilitated communication (FC) by mistaking facilitator-generated cues for evidence of telepathy. She…
- Telepathy via Facilitated Communication in Profound Autism: A 21st-Century Delusion · 22 min · Řada 50Katharine Beals traces the persistence of facilitated communication (FC) and its modern variants to a convergence of social, educational, and cultural forces, arguing that…
- The Telepathy Tapes: A Portal into a World of Woo · 19 min · Řada 50Stuart Vyse argues that The Telepathy Tapes has evolved from promoting dubious claims about telepathy among nonspeaking autistic people into a broader platform for paranormal and…
- How The Telepathy Tapes Silences Voices · 4 min · Řada 50Stephen Hupp previews the upcoming issue of Skeptical Inquirer, titled The Telepathy Tapes Silences Voices. Read this article and find accompanying references at…
- California Endorses Dangerous Autism Pseudoscience · 4 min · Řada 50Stuart Vyse argues that California's State Council on Developmental Disabilities has endorsed discredited communication methods such as facilitated communication, rapid…
- The ABC's of Belief: Aliens, Bigfoot, and Chupacabra · 4 min · Řada 50Benjamin Radford examines public beliefs about aliens, Bigfoot, and chupacabra through recent polling data, finding that belief varies widely between these legendary creatures…
- The Commodification of Science: "The Last da Vinci" Offers Insights about Aspartame · 10 min · Řada 50Nick Tiller argues that modern science communication risks becoming science commodification when evidence is transformed from a process of inquiry into a product designed for…
