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title: "Laurie Taylor"
date: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
modified: "2007-05-30T00:00:00+01:00"
url: "https://newhumanist.org.uk/contributors/laurie-taylor/"
post_id: 3269
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# Laurie Taylor

Laurie Taylor is president of the Rationalist Association and a commissioning editor of New Humanist magazine. He presents [Thinking Allowed](http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/) on BBC Radio 4 and has made numerous television and radio programmes, including the interview series *In Confidence* for Sky. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of York and the author of books on criminiology and parenthood. He has more honorary degrees than you could shake a very large stick at.