Serious Inquiries Only
Join Thomas for some critical thinking on questions of science, philosophy, skepticism and politics. These serious topics are discussed with some serious guests, but in an entertaining and engaging way! This is not your typical interview podcast; it’s a friendly dialogue, conducted thoughtfully and with plenty of humor. It's Serious Inquiries Only; but like, not boring or anything.
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 805
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
SIO41: Talking Free Speech, with Michael Shermer
I'm very pleased to be speaking to Michael Shermer this week, someone who has been more on the free speech war side of things, and someone who has said previously that liberals won't dialogue with hi…
01:13:23 |
Mon 15 May 2017
SIO40: Actually, Berkeley Is A Fierce Defender of Free Speech
This might be my magnum opus on the overblown "war on free speech" in Universities. In my research I discovered that, to a degree even further than I thought, Berkeley administration has gone above a…
00:48:22 |
Thu 11 May 2017
SIO39: Seth Andrews of The Thinking Atheist
Joining me today is Seth Andrews, of the immensely popular podcast The Thinking Atheist! I've long followed Seth's work and have always wanted an excuse to talk to him on the show, but somehow only j…
00:48:42 |
Mon 08 May 2017
SIO38: Obama's Unfortunate Payday
When I saw the news of Obama's $400k paycheck for a speech to a Wall St bank, I posted this reaction on Facebook. The slew of comments that resulted was quite surprising to me. In my view, a lot of l…
00:57:34 |
Thu 04 May 2017
SIO37: Josh Zepps of #WeThePeople LIVE
Joining me today is Josh Zepps! I first came across Josh's work when Sam Harris and Hannibal Buress had a bizarre interaction on his podcast #WeThePeople LIVE (here's a SoundCloud link). I was impres…
01:03:52 |
Mon 01 May 2017
SIO36: The New Version of Trumpcare Should Scare You
Trump is closing in on 100 days as president, something that he simultaneously has said means nothing but is also important enough to have him scrambling for any sort of policy victory. I'm going to …
01:04:18 |
Thu 27 Apr 2017
SIO35: The Perils of Being Ex-Muslim, with Eiynah
Joining me today is Eiynah! You may know her from her podcast Polite Conversations or from a very active and insightful Twitter account, @NiceMangos. First up we talk a bit about the jarring experien…
00:58:50 |
Mon 24 Apr 2017
SIO34: Episode no longer available
The guest has requested I take this episode down and I'm respecting that request. Apologies.
00:00:19 |
Thu 20 Apr 2017
SIO33: Thinking Clearly on Syria
I support Trump's Syria strike against the Shayrat airfield. That is the punchline of today's episode but I encourage you to listen with an open mind as I go through the reaction to the Syria strike,…
01:01:38 |
Mon 17 Apr 2017
SIO32: What Happened In Syria?
I'm back from my Europe trip! And it couldn't have come at a more news-heavy time. First I've got a couple quick stories to talk about - Chechnya and Susan Rice. After that I go to the main topic for…
01:00:46 |
Thu 13 Apr 2017
SIO31: Why We Ignore Facts, with Sara Gorman
Joining me today is Sara Gorman! Sara is a public health expert and author based in New York. She is the co-founder of Critica, a community committed to making rational decisions about health and sec…
00:53:55 |
Mon 10 Apr 2017
SIO30: America Last, with Zachary Kiser
Joining me today is Zach Kiser, a graduate researcher and Director of Policy and Communications for the National Science Policy Group (NSPG)! Zach is here to give us some perspective on just how awfu…
00:46:48 |
Thu 06 Apr 2017
SIO29: No Longer Available
The guest from this episode has requested that I take it down and I'm respecting that request.
00:00:19 |
Mon 03 Apr 2017
SIO28: The Discussion With Dave Rubin That Never Was (and more bad news....)
Yeah, that excitement didn't last too long. I was scheduled to speak to Dave Rubin at Mythinformation in Milwaukee in September, but despite everything having been agreed to and announced, Dave dropp…
01:06:30 |
Thu 30 Mar 2017
SIO27: What Grounds Our Morals? With Aaron Rabi
Joining me for the second time is philosopher and now podcaster, Aaron Rabi! Aaron specializes in ethics, and I have questions. I'm fairly certain that our morality ultimately boils down to consequen…
01:01:45 |
Mon 27 Mar 2017
SIO26: The Trump Administration and Russia - An Incredible Amount of Smoke
With a heavy news week full of depositions, testimony, odd press conferences and more, today I take a look at some of the evidence of Russia-Trump collusion and what it all means. Ok, what it MIGHT m…
01:03:07 |
Thu 23 Mar 2017
SIO25: Lawrence Krauss - The Greatest Story Ever Told
I'm so excited to have Lawrence Krauss on the show today! Professor Krauss is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who blew all of our minds with his lecture and previous book, A Universe from Not…
00:46:23 |
Mon 20 Mar 2017
SIO24: Can We Rely on the CBO's Projections?
Given the preemptive bashing of the CBO by Republicans and the subsequent release of a pretty damning score on the AHCA bill, I wanted to take a look at how the CBO did at predicting the effects of O…
01:03:47 |
Thu 16 Mar 2017
SIO23: Is It Morally Acceptable to Have Children? with Travis Rieder
Joining us today is Travis Rieder! Travis is a philosopher at Johns Hopkins who deals with Population Ethics and related questions. Find his academic page here. Given the uncertainty of outcomes of o…
00:56:09 |
Mon 13 Mar 2017
SIO22: From Obamacare to Trumpcare
In today's episode I want to discuss one of the most significant battles that will be fought in the new administration: that is the repeal and replacement of Obamacare. While looking into a lot of th…
01:00:42 |
Thu 09 Mar 2017
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