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    Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding...
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  • interviewed include PZ Myers, William B. Provine, Richard Dawkins, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Christopher Hitchens, and Eugenie Scott. Expelled features...
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  • The Moral Arc (category Books by Michael Shermer)
    Leads Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom is a 2015 book by Michael Shermer. Steven Pinker describes the book as a sequel to The Better Angels...
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  • and History edited by Michael Berenbaum and Abrahm Peck, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998 page 15. Shermer, Michael & Grobman, Alex Denying...
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  • statement about the veracity of various causal inferences. In 2008, Michael Shermer coined the word patternicity, defining it as "the tendency to find...
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    the 1993 film Fire in the Sky. Science writers Philip J. Klass and Michael Shermer highlight a potential motive for the hoax was to provide an "Act of...
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  • narratives have found less popularity in mainstream media. Skeptic Michael Shermer proposed that the ubiquity of camera phones increases the burden of...
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  • Yes, and yes." Michael Shermer gave the book a generally favorable review but Taleb responded in Nature magazine that "Michael Shermer mischaracterizes...
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    2017, Sheldrake published a dialog with science writer and skeptic Michael Shermer titled Arguing Science: A Dialogue on the Future of Science and Spirit...
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  • 000 subscribers in 2000. The magazine was co-founded in late 1991 by Michael Shermer and Pat Linse as they formed the Skeptics Society. The magazine was...
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    debates with Christopher Hitchens, Michael Shermer, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss, Peter Atkins, Victor Stenger, Michael Tooley, Stephen Law, and Peter...
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    hits and removing anything that does not reflect well on the medium. Michael Shermer criticized mediums in Scientific American, saying, "mediums are unethical...
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  • Carlson R, Shermer M, Defant MJ, LeCompte MA (16 May 2017). Joe Rogan Experience #961 - Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson & Michael Shermer. Joe Rogan Experience...
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  • history". Many scientists, physicians, and philosophers, including Michael Shermer, Michael Ruse, Edzard Ernst, David Gorski, and Simon Singh have criticized...
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    atoms. Michael Shermer investigated remote viewing experiments and discovered a problem with the target selection list. According to Shermer, with the...
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    ISBN 978-0-230-11829-4. Roesch, Ben S & John L. Moore. (2002). Cryptozoology. In Michael Shermer (ed.). The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: Volume One. ABC-CLIO...
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  • Pliego praised the book as a defence of free trade and globalisation. Michael Shermer gave the book positive reviews in Nature and Scientific American before...
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  • Why People Believe Weird Things (category Books by Michael Shermer)
    1997 book by science writer Michael Shermer. The foreword was written by Stephen Jay Gould. In the first section, Shermer discusses the ideas that he...
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    during inclusion in the index would allow for a bias-free output. Michael Shermer in Scientific American and Larry Smith of the University of Waterloo...
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  • superstition, and irrational beliefs. The Skeptics Society was co-founded by Michael Shermer and Pat Linse as a Los Angeles-area skeptical group to replace the...
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    may have allowed subjects to learn the patterns implicitly. In 2005, Michael Shermer expressed concern over confirmation bias and experimenter bias in the...
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    reached 200,000 subscribers in 2024. Keating also appeared in The Michael Shermer Show [d] podcast in 2019, and the Lex Fridman Podcast in 2022. He has...
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    1982. There were four competitors: John Marino himself, John Howard, Michael Shermer, and Lon Haldeman. The course started in Santa Monica, California and...
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  • This led author Michael Shermer to coin the term "meta-ideologue" to describe Cole. In a 1994 article in Shermer's Skeptic magazine, Shermer wrote, "Where...
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  • Michael Shermer (August 23, 2022). "Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions". The Michael Shermer Show...
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    appearing in January 2006. He credits Michael Shermer with introducing him to the skeptical community. Shermer interviewed him for Skeptic Magazine in...
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    more than the unfortunate by-product of the vicissitudes of war." Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman. Denying History: : who Says the Holocaust Never Happened...
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    see anything like a tunnel as it was being born." Notable skeptic Michael Shermer has also criticized the hypothesis and concluded that "there is no...
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  • of gender, personal opinions, age, epoch, culture, or nationality. Michael Shermer gives the example of jewelry worn by those in mourning. Most people...
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    world today "is as furiously religious as it ever was". The skeptic Michael Shermer wrote: "At the beginning of the twentieth century social scientists...
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