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JFK Blown Away 60 Years Ago Today
On the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy an overview of the evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone
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Why I Am Not a Christian
A response to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's declaration "Why I am Now a Christian"
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Why the Jews?
The Psychology of Anti-Semitism and the Need for Enemies
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Michael Shermer
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Scientific American Goes Woke
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Why I Am Not a Christian
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What is a Woman, Anyway?
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Trans Doper
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Moral Equivalency and its Discontents
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Moral Equivalency and its Discontents
Hamas and Israel are not equivalent—that should be obvious, but it's not for many on the far Left who have lost their moral conscience and compass
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Michael Shermer
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The Truth about 9/11 Truth
On the anniversary of 9/11, an excerpt from Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, from the chapter "Truthers and Birthers"
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Clarence Thomas and Bohemian Grove
Bohemian Grove is a cross between TED and Burning Man, with no cameras…or women. What goes on there and what was the Supreme Court justice doing there?
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Michael Shermer
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Meteors, Spherules, and Aliens
Did Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discover the remnants of an interstellar meteor in the form of spherules on the ocean floor? Could they be of alien…
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Michael Shermer
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Ten Commandments for Our Time
Toward a Provisional Rational Decalogue
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Michael Shermer
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Deconstructing the Decalogue
Or, How to Think About the Ten Commandments
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Michael Shermer
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There's a UFO in My Garage
What would Carl Sagan say about the public frenzy over Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)?
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