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Extraterrestrial Governance
We are about to become a multi-planetary species. What type of government should be established on other planets, moons, and space-faring civilizations?
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Michael Shermer
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Wokeness Poisons Science
Part II of my series on why I am no longer woke
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Michael Shermer
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Science and Spirituality
The Search for Meaning in a Secular Age workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, April 18–20, 2025, led by Dr. Michael Shermer and Dr. Ralph…
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Michael Shermer
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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
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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
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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
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November 2024

October 2024

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
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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
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How to Tell if a Conspiracy Theory is True
Applying Signal Detection Theory to conspiracism
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Michael Shermer
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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
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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
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