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Scientific American Goes Woke
 • Michael Shermer
135
Why I Am Not a Christian
 • Michael Shermer
381
What is a Woman, Anyway?
 • Michael Shermer
101
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Redux—WPATH Edition
 • Michael Shermer
42
Moral Equivalency and its Discontents
 • Michael Shermer
58
The Shroud of Turin
 • Michael Shermer
23
How to Tell if a Conspiracy Theory is True
Applying Signal Detection Theory to conspiracism
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Michael Shermer
28
Never Again
After 3,000 years of anti-Semitic hatred, pogroms, genocides, and a Holocaust that nearly exterminated the Jews, how can anyone fault Israel and the…
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Michael Shermer
509
From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary
A review of Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities by Andrew Shtulman. Reviewed by Anondah Saide and Amanda Neuwirth
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Michael Shermer
2
Free Speech and Theater Fires
Why Tim Walz, along with everyone who mindlessly repeats the line that you can't shout "fire" in a theater, are misinformed and wrong.
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Michael Shermer
20
Project 2025
Guest columnist Katherine Stewart on the conservative Heritage Foundation's plan for restructuring the entire federal government
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Michael Shermer
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FIRE Probably Underestimates How Badly Universities are Burning
Sociologist and Skeptic Research Center chief researcher Kevin McCaffree reviews the latest survey findings from Freedom for Individual Rights and…
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Michael Shermer
24
Tucker Carlson, Professional Bullshitter
The popular podcast host promotes a pseudo-historian who says Hitler was a misunderstood peacemaker and the Holocaust needs revising.
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Michael Shermer
35
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