Sam and Mike return to shilling the new book by the Skeptics Guide to the Universe with Cara Santa Maria!!Our first return guest, Cara Santa Maria, takes a break out of her busy schedule to talk to PWR about her new book, the Skeptics Guide to the Universe - a collaboration by the hosts of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast which Cara co-ho…

How do you dissect your own thinking and keep honest when you step into the firehose of modern politics that is filled with fake and incomplete reporting? One answer, 'Be humble' as Steven Novella explains. Politics Within Reason shills our very first book (we were not paid to)! Steven Novella a host of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe podcast jo…

The way we typically vote is that you select only one candidate for a position, but there are many flaws with this methodology. Aaron Hamlin from The Center for Election Science discusses an alternative called Approval voting. Under approval voting, voters can select as many candidates as they like for a position. This makes third party candidates …

Ep 17: Interview with Dena GraysonMichael has a chat with Dena Grayson, a scientist who ran for Congress in 2016. We discuss what it is like to run a campaign, Russian attacks on our elections, outside PAC spending and what candidates need to understand - namely that voters don’t really care all that much about you personally, they care what you ca…