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Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

FromPoint of Inquiry


Andrew Skolnick - The Dangers of Alternative Medicine

FromPoint of Inquiry

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Dec 23, 2005
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Andrew Skolnick, Executive Director of the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, is a nationally renowned science journalist who has won numerous national awards and honors for his reporting in biology, medicine, and human rights. Among those honors are Amnesty International USA's Spotlight on Media Award; World Hunger Year's Harry Chapin Award for Impact on Hunger and Poverty; the John P. McGovern Medal from the American Medical Writers Association; and a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism. For nearly a decade, he served as an associate news editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association. He has been published in Smithsonian, Natural History, Ranger Rick Nature Magazine, National Geographic World, The New York Times, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and many other publications.

In this interview, he discusses the dangers of alternative medicine, including unregulated dietary supplements, homeopathy, and more.

Also, in the second of a two part interview entitled The Real War on Christmas, Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry magazine, urges listeners to wage an actual war on Christmas, in defense of America's religious diversity and the rights of nonbelievers.

Point of Inquiry contributer Lauren Becker offers some insight into the recent ruling in the Dover Pennsylvania Intelligent Design case.

Finally, In Ben Radford's regular commentary, Media Mythmakers, he discusses recent terror hoaxes.
Released:
Dec 23, 2005
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Launched in 2005, Point of Inquiry is the premier podcast of the Center for Inquiry. Point of Inquiry critically examines topics in science, religion, philosophy, and politics. Each episode takes on a specific issue and features in-depth discussions with leading scientists, researchers, and writers.