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Scientific American Goes Woke
A case study in how identity politics poisons science
 • Michael Shermer
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
 • Michael Shermer
Why I Am Not a Christian
A response to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's declaration "Why I am Now a Christian"
 • Michael Shermer
What is a Woman, Anyway?
Fuzzy Sets, Family Resemblances, and Conceptual Truths
 • Michael Shermer
Wokeness Poisons Science
Part II of my series on why I am no longer woke
 • Michael Shermer
The Shroud of Turin
The History and Legends of the World’s Most Famous Relic, by Andrea Nicolotti
 • Michael Shermer
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Redux—WPATH Edition
Leaked documents from World Professional Association for Transgender Health practitioners reveal a medical profession in the grips of an ideology-driven…
 • Michael Shermer
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
 • Michael Shermer
Tucker Carlson, Professional Bullshitter
The popular podcast host promotes a pseudo-historian who says Hitler was a misunderstood peacemaker and the Holocaust needs revising.
 • Michael Shermer
Trans Doper
Puberty is a performance enhancing drug. When Male-to-Female trans athletes like collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas compete and win against biological…
 • Michael Shermer
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…
 • Michael Shermer
Project 2025
Guest columnist Katherine Stewart on the conservative Heritage Foundation's plan for restructuring the entire federal government
 • Michael Shermer
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