The folks at CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, has a podcast, Point of Inquiry, which is pretty good.

I used to be a big fan of CSICOP and the whole "skeptic" thing, and I still am, even though I've soured a bit. I think they're great when exposing and explaining ghosts, ghoulies and UFO's. It's when they take turn toward an apparent hostility to regular mainstream religion and spirituality that I begin to be left cold. It all starts to sound very childish to me -- like high schoolers rebelling against their parents for making them go to Sunday School all those years. They end up going too far and throwing the baby out with the bath water.

So I enjoyed the December 16 podcast (for those unfamiliar with podcasting -- it's basically a radio show in mp3 format. You download the file and listen to it on your I-Pod or similar, or, for those without, you just listen on your computer) with guest Joe Nickell where he advises skeptics to spend more time in "skeptical inquiry," and less time "debunking" -- the difference being mainly one of attitude. Unfortunately, much of the beginning of the show is taken up with discussion of a new book, The Trouble With Christmas...exactly the type of thing I wish the skeptics wouldn't waste their time on.

The POI people might also at some point decide whether "Inquiry" is pronounced in-QUIRE-ry or IN-quiry. I go with the latter.