Skepticality - The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine - Skepticality #111 - Pop Goes the Controversy - Interviews: Jill Sobule, Keith Williams and The Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics

Skepticality #111 - Pop Goes the Controversy - Interviews: Jill Sobule, Keith Williams and The Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics

09/29/09 • 37 min

Skepticality - The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine

On this week's Skepticality, Derek and Swoopy have just returned from Charlotte PopFest, a unique music festival with proceeds benefitting the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. Unexpected local media backlash against the PopFest benefitting a group of "evolutionists" is further evidence why events like this one, the first of it's kind, are so important. These sentiments are echoed in this week's short interviews with PopFest musician Jill Sobule, members of the Charlotte Atheists and Agnostics and Keith Williams, a local Charlotte skeptic who wrote a letter to WBTV Charlotte to express his concern over their reporting of the PopFest as an example of "Science and religion butting heads".

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