Michael Shermer
Publisher Skeptic Magazine, Monthly columnist Scientific American, Presidential Fellow Chapman University
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Will Science Ever Solve the Mysteries of Consciousness, Free Will and God?
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Are consciousness, free will and God insoluble mysteries?
Circle – Quilliam
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Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will
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Dr. Miller presents a radical, optimistic exploration of how humans evolved to develop reason, consciousness, and free will, contra scientists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who tell us that our most intimate actions, thoughts, and values...
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Michael Shermer SCIENCE SALON #23 is now out: My dialogue with on his new book The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will. We also discuss God, religion, atheism, spirituality, faith, creationism & intelligent design. 42h
Is There An Afterlife?
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Sunday Special Ep 6: Michael Shermer
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Does God exist? Do societies thrive under a religious influence? Ben Shapiro and noted atheist Michael Shermer debate Christianity's role in cultural advance...
Conspiracy Theorists, and the Harm They Do
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No event in the twentieth century did more to popularize conspiracy theories and confuse the general public than the assassination of President Kennedy. By educating people about what actually happened to JFK, and how conspiracy theorists have...
eSkeptic for June 15, 2018
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No event in the twentieth century did more to popularize conspiracy theories and confuse the general public than the assassination of President Kennedy. By educating people about what actually happened to JFK, and how conspiracy theorists have...
Michael Shermer If you're looking for some good weekend reading may I suggest: "Conspiracy Theorists, and the Harm They Do" by James Lambert. 4d
The Daily Wire
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The Daily Wire is a politically conservative news and opinion website featuring daily podcasts by Andrew Klavan, Michael Knowles, and Editor-In-Chief Ben Sha...
The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special
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Michael Shermer I'm on with this Sunday Special 1-hour interview show. We talk God, science & religion, free will, consciousness, the basis of morality, right & wrong. If you listen carefully you'll hear him agree with me on everything. It's subtle but there. 5d
Derren Brown: Miracle | Netflix Official Site
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Illusionist Derren Brown reinvents the concept of "faith healing” through a series of stunts that debunk the confines of fear, pain and disbelief.
Michael Shermer The trailer for 's new Netflix special is fabulous. Can't wait to see the show. My Salon podcast with Derren is eye/ear-opening. He's an incredibly smart & interesting man: 6d
I Am Not a Racist, And So Are You
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Stephen Beckner ponders privilege and parity in a postmodern world, weighing in on the many Grand American Shaming Experiments taking place right now, and their potentially enormous personal, political, and cultural opportunity costs.
Michael Shermer "I Am Not a Racist, And So Are You." One of the best writers we've ever published in Skeptic, Stephen Beckner, tackles the most sensitive subject in America today with reason & sensitivity. From Skeptic Vol. 22, No. 4. Read now for free: 7d
The Stanford Prison Experiment
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The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard. The experiment was conducted from August 14 t...
Michael Shermer So, Ben Blum, SPE prison guard Dave Eshelman says he faked being a bad ass: That's what he says NOW. Watch this old video in which he appears throughout describing how much pleasure he took in abusing prisoners. Which is the lie? 7d
The Lifespan of a Lie – Trust Issues
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It was late in the evening of August 16th, 1971, and twenty-two-year-old Douglas Korpi, a slim, short-statured Berkeley graduate with a mop of pale, shaggy hair, was locked in a dark closet in the…
Michael Shermer Sham! Fraud! Lie! Everyone pile on & destroy him & his life's work for science & humanity over a single incident. It's all the rage now: attack classic psych experiments, all of which were critiqued decades ago, & claim yours is original. 7d
Michael Shermer So, Ben Blum, SPE prison guard Dave Eshelman says he faked being a bad ass: That's what he says NOW. Watch this old video in which he appears throughout describing how much pleasure he took in abusing prisoners. Which is the lie? 7d
Michael Shermer So, Ben Blum, encouraged the guards in the SPE to be abusive so that invalidates the research. Did he also go to Abu Ghraib & encourage the prison guards there to do the exact same thing to Iraqi prisoners? Could there be some SPE validity? 7d
Being Suicidal: What It Feels Like to Want to Kill Yourself
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Michael Shermer 2 great articles on suicide by psychologist (1) What it feels like to want to kill yourself (he writes with first hand experience) and (2) Why religion does not protect people from suicide 8d
Maps of Meaning
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Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself?  From...
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Michael Shermer Ok I'll listen to Maps of Meaning, out today. But 30 hours?! That's 10 3-hour bike rides, 8 if I listen to it at 1.25 speed (best for most audio books). But you owe me a beer if I get through the entire tome without crashing... 8d
Derren Brown and Michael Shermer - Is hypnosis real?
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Michael Shermer Is hypnosis real? Derren Brown and I discuss. 7 min. excerpt from our longer dialogue: 8d
Suicide Prediction Remains Difficult Despite Decades of Research
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Medical professionals say the causes, predictors are too complex
Michael Shermer Good article on predicting suicide. Can't. Not even victims: "Neither I nor anyone else can accurately predict who is going to die by suicide or truly explain why a particular person died by suicide (this includes the suicide decedents themselves)." 9d
Revisionist History Season 3 Episode 4
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Listen to “Free Brian Williams” Season 3 Episode 4 of The Revisionist History Podcast with Malcolm Gladwell.
Michael Shermer One of the best podcasts I've ever heard: Revisionist History takes on memory & the Brian Williams controversy, recounting the moral outrage heaped upon him with not one media source interviewing a memory scientist—shameful. #freebrianwilliams 9d
No, Being Religious Will Not Save You from Suicide
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Jesse Bering responds to Bill Donohue’s claim that if Anthony Bourdain had been a religious man, he wouldn’t have taken his own life.