Besides having sex for pleasure and cooking food before ingestion, there is one other way in which humans differentiate from the rest of the animal kingdom: our big, believing brains. Michael Shermer, ...

Superstring theory is one of the latest inhabitants of what Shermer (Why People Believe Weird Things, etc.), editor of Skeptic magazine, calls the "borderlands" of ...

Michael Shermer would argue that we’re living in the most moral period in the history of humanity. “Things really are getting better. There’s never been a better time to be alive than now. There’s ...

Skeptic Magazine founder and New York Times best-selling author Michael Shermer talks about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., climate change, doomer attitudes, the state of the media, and conspiracy theories, in ...

"I think the second-wave feminists I've talked to are very worried about the kind of woke, gender-identity movement because it's reducing women to just body parts," says Michael Shermer. "A guy can ...

"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic ...

Michael Shermer talks with host Larry Mantle about the recent passing of one of the great minds of contemporary science, Stephen Jay Gould, and other current science stories in the news. Michael ...

One of my favorite sites is the Skeptic put out by Michael Shermer. Shermer used to race bicycles in his youth and had a role in organizing what has now become the premier cross-country bike race, the ...

For fifteen years, Michael Shermer has written a column for Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Michael Shermer is a Founding Publisher for the Skeptic Magazine with 23 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as an Executive Director for ...

Why the Founding Fathers Wouldn’t Have Been Anti-Vaxxers Look to the 18th-century philosophers who created the modern world The long view of race relations and the law in America As Thanksgiving ...