michael shermer

(Wasn't sure which forum to post this into, but thought General Skepticism was the best fit.) Jordan Petersen's long awaited echo chamber social media site ("Thinkspot") has [launched in beta], and the panel of contributors users can subscribe to includes Michael Shermer. His peers include...

Get your popcorn ready for this three-hour extravaganza where Michael Shermer "debates" some "alternative history" people about whether there was some ancient lost civilization that was disrupted by a massive comet, which made the remaining humans revert to hunter-gethererism again after having...

The publisher of Skeptic Magazine Michael Shermer has taken legal action to try and halt the distribution of a new book by David Cole called Republican Party Animal - www.countercontempt.com/archives/5232

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Do you think Michael Shermer the most polite skeptical debator these days? I watched a couple videos on Holocaust Denial and he was surprisingly calm and never resorted to attacks, even subtle ones. Same with religion, superstition, pseudoscience, etc. I would say Sam Harris is quite cool as...

On CBC TV tonight: "Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?" at 9PM, October 20, 2011 . http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/episode/conspiracy-rising-1.html Looks like it could be a touch of fresh air. (Also on CBC Newsworld at various times Friday, Saturday and Sunday). :th:

Michael Shermer’s newest work is a keen edge in a world of dull blades. Finally someone has come along and written on this subject providing actual scientific basis and biological evidence pointing to Man’s never ending struggle with his own brain and its propensity to paint itself into a...

Colbert's show just started and Dr. Michael Shermer will be on. If you miss it they'll have a couple of reruns tomorrow. Steve S

I searched, to the best of my limited ability and the limited tools of the Forums, for this topic and was astonished not to fiind a discussion on one of the most important books ever printed on the philosophy of science: "What We Believe But Cannot Prove; Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in...

A debate on the nature of reality, consciousness and modern science. Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine, Leonard Mlodinow the theoretical physicist and Deepak Chopra the Quantum Woo Master are among the 10 people on the interdisciplinary panel. 7WA76VTq3O8 Download Free Podcast through iTunes...

If this better belongs elsewhere, I'll have it moved. But, because this was a single picture commentary (as well as a pointed skewering) by Michael Shermer of the notion of psychics, I figured this would be the best subforum to share his pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shermer/5598141656/...

From his tweeter... Perhaps every soul doesn't reincarnate. Perhaps some reincarnate on new worlds or in higher dimensions. There, I refuted your refutation... AND that's what the believers say to explain it! Why do people bother saying stuff like this? I don't understand! Why not say that...

McGill University, Montreal, October 18th http://www.mcgill.ca/science/trottier-symposium/october18/ "Drs. David Gorski, Ben Goldacre and Michael Shermer will share their wealth of experience and views on confronting pseudoscience. David Gorski is a surgical oncologist at Wayne State...

I thought this was an interesting post by shermer, following the ABC debate (http://bit.ly/a2KkiL), where he posts a funny chart made by one of his friends about Chopra's new take on science and religion. http://trueslant.com/michaelshermer/2010/04/12/deepaks-upgrade-to-god-2-0/ Deepak of...

I still have my membership (my ex still hasn't noticed it's on his credit card every six months and called to cancel the charge!) so I just noticed and am going to listen tonight. I got in trouble with Streamlink when I posted my password here, but I will download it so I have it if anyone is...

Check out Michael Shermer's appearance in the latest episode of Mr Deity, entitled: Mr Deity and the Skeptic. He does a very nice acting job and the episode is hilarious. While you're at it, check out all of the other brilliant episodes. You'll find it on iTunes. As of this posting, it...

Michael Shermer is debating Eric Hovind on St. Louis Radio. 97.1. You can listen at the radio station's website: http://www.971talk.com/glover/index.aspx (Glover Show, May 27, 2009). The show's podcasts appear here the day after broadcast. Why is Shermer debating this fool? There is no evidence...

You can stream the full Dawkins/Lennox debate online at: http://www.dawkinslennoxdebate.com Or if you want just the audio you can download it here and a 2008 follow up here.

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I have a question for everyone who is interested in these things. I'm intrigued by something Michael Shermer wrote (I believe it's from his book Why People Believe Weird Things but I didn't check): http://skeptically.org/logicalthreads/id15.html Gender and Belief. In many ways the...

I love Shermer's books. He's done great things. But he's awful at debating. Hope he's learned to never debate again, after his humiliating confrontation with Dr. Dino. http://www.michaelshermer.com/2008/01/911-truthers-harass-shermer/ Many stundie-worthy comments on there.

I went to the Michael Shermer book signing in Portland tonight and during the Q&A a truther tried to confront Shermer with "the smoking gun" evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. Even as debunkers I think we could come up with much better "evidence" then what he posited. In a nutshell: Wow...

Now officially online: http://www.michaelshermer.com/

When: Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM Where: Tattered Cover - LoDo 16th St & Wynkoop Denver, CO 80202 Dr Shermer will be in town to discuss and sign his new book. More Details: http://skeptics.meetup.com/131/calendar/7027647/

New York City Skeptics is proud to co-sponsor Michael Shermer's lecture "The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics" at the New York Academy of Sciences. Author and psychologist Michael Shermer will lecture and host a...

If anyone's interested in carpooling from Orange County to Caltech this Sunday for Shermer vs. D'Souza, email me at brian[at]skeptoid.com. Plan to leave early and get back home late.

According to -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer -- Michael Shermer wrote this in his 2002 book Why People Believe Weird Things: "I became a skeptic on Saturday, August 6, 1983, on the long climbing road to Loveland Pass, Colorado after months of training under the guidance of a...

Thom Hartmann talking about 9/11 Woo On KTLK, 1150 AM in Los Angeles. On the Mark Germain show. Hawking his new book, what else? Hartmann talking now about Building 7, and he's dancing, because Germain (a skeptic) is asking pointed questions. Hartmann says, no explosives. But then says...

I've just encoutered this video on Youtube: Vedic Astrology: Michael Shermer vs Jeffrey Armstrong In it, Vedic astrologyer Jeffrey Armstrong appears to get quite amazing results in a double-blinded trial, with very specific results well above chance; including accuracy of ostensibly better than...