Skeptic

Home
Archive
About
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"
 • 
Michael Shermer
17
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?
 • 
Michael Shermer
3
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…
 • 
Michael Shermer
1
Most Popular
View all
Scientific American Goes Woke
 • Michael Shermer
122
What is a Woman, Anyway?
 • Michael Shermer
99
Trans Doper
 • Michael Shermer
107
Putin's Problem
 • Michael Shermer
52
The Joe Rogan Effect
 • Michael Shermer
120
New
Top
Community
Ten Commandments for Our Time
Toward a Provisional Rational Decalogue
 • 
Michael Shermer
14
Deconstructing the Decalogue
Or, How to Think About the Ten Commandments
 • 
Michael Shermer
21
There's a UFO in My Garage
What would Carl Sagan say about the public frenzy over Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)?
 • 
Michael Shermer
31
The Bomb, the Man, the Morality
Christopher Nolan's magisterial film "Oppenheimer" renews debate on the use of nuclear weapons to end World War II, as a deterrent to future use, and…
 • 
Michael Shermer
12
Vax Populi: Vaccines, Autism, and RFK, Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. accepts the scientific consensus on climate change but rejects the conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism. Why? He has been…
 • 
Michael Shermer
43
The Unabomber's Declinism Goes Mainstream
Ted Kaczynski's manifesto could have been written by any number of modern doomsayers and dystopians
 • 
Michael Shermer
8
The Final Lecture
Ten lessons on living a good life and being resilient in the teeth of entropy, problems, setbacks & obstacles, aka normal life
 • 
Michael Shermer
12
Skeptic
Skeptic
Examining the World Through a Scientific Lens
Recommendations
Just the Facts with Gerald Posner
Just the Facts with Gerald Posner
Gerald Posner
© 2023 Michael Shermer
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing