Dan Dennett Looks Back on His Career
Get tickets for our event: skeptic.com/event Daniel Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of the mind. Do ...
3 Okt 20231h 28min
How the American Right Became Radicalized
Book tickets for our event: skeptic.com/event At the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a...
27 Sep 20231h 27min
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
Don't miss this! Michael SHELLENBERGER, Jared DIAMOND, Peter BOGHOSSIAN, and Michael SHERMER. LIVE & IN-PERSON, DEC. 1–3. "It's not a conference… it's better!" A weekend of workshops, live podcast rec...
26 Sep 20233min
Ways of Thinking That Power Successful People
Shermer and Pompliano discuss: personal journey from college to Fortune to The Profile • what distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely great • What is genius? • hindsight bias • David Goggi...
19 Sep 202359min
How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
Lee McIntyre is Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard Univer...
12 Sep 20231h 34min
The Law vs. Separation of Church and State
Shermer and Tabash discuss: the history of the relationship between church and state • the founding framers of the U.S. Constitution and their arguments for separating church and state • Madison and J...
5 Sep 20231h 59min
Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why?
This episode is a conversation based on two of Nancy Segal's books The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive and Gay Fathers, Twin Sons: the Citzenship Case that Cap...
1 Sep 20231h 42min
Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb
Did Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discover the remnants of an interstellar meteor in the form of spherules on the ocean floor? Could they be of alien origin? In today's special edition of The Michael Sh...
29 Aug 20231h 31min
