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Scientific American Goes Woke
 • Michael Shermer
135
Why I Am Not a Christian
 • Michael Shermer
370
Why I Am No Longer Woke
 • Michael Shermer
59
What is a Woman, Anyway?
 • Michael Shermer
103
Wokeness Poisons Science
 • Michael Shermer
83
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Redux—WPATH Edition
 • Michael Shermer
42
The Great Drone Panic of 2024...and 1914
Guest columnist Robert Bartholomew, one of the world’s leading scholars of mass hysterias and social panics, considers the panic over the recent drone…
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Michael Shermer
27
Luigi Mangione, Unabomber Redux
The suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to admire Ted Kaczynski. Is that a clue to his motives?
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Michael Shermer
19
Why I Am No Longer Woke
The woke vision of human nature as a blank slate is ultimately why it is a flawed ideological and failed political movement, Part I
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Michael Shermer
59
Postmortem 2024
A commentary on the Presidential election and what it may mean for our future
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Michael Shermer
56
The Most Important Election of My Lifetime…Again
And other hyperboles, such as “if Trump wins I’m leaving the country,” or “if Harris wins it will be the end of our country”
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Michael Shermer
78
Pseudo-Skepticism
Philosopher and skeptic Nikil Mukerji explains what happens when idea pathogens infect the brains of otherwise rational thinkers, most notably when the…
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Michael Shermer
45
How to Tell if a Conspiracy Theory is True
Applying Signal Detection Theory to conspiracism
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Michael Shermer
28
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