Michael Shermer would argue that we’re living in the most moral period in the history of humanity. “Things really are getting better. There’s never been a better time to be alive than now. There’s ...

Besides having sex for pleasure and cooking food before ingestion, there is one other way in which humans differentiate from the rest of the animal kingdom: our big, believing brains. Michael Shermer, ...

Superstring theory is one of the latest inhabitants of what Shermer (Why People Believe Weird Things, etc.), editor of Skeptic magazine, calls the "borderlands" of ...

Skeptic Magazine founder and New York Times best-selling author Michael Shermer talks about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., climate change, doomer attitudes, the state of the media, and conspiracy theories, in ...

"I think the second-wave feminists I've talked to are very worried about the kind of woke, gender-identity movement because it's reducing women to just body parts," says Michael Shermer. "A guy can ...

indisputable scientific evidence for a technological artifact from an extraterrestrial civilization within 5 years—Loeb bets ...

If you’d been born a few thousand years ago, before the invention of the state, every decade you’d have stood a 1-in-20 chance of a violent death. Today, your skull might be on display in a museum ...

For fifteen years, Michael Shermer has written a column for Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep ...

"You can't just say, 'This is the way it is, therefore it ought to be that way.' You've got to have good reasons," says Michael Shermer, referencing the common "is-ought fallacy" most famously ...

Michael Shermer is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and eight other books on the history and evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Michael Shermer is a Founding Publisher for the Skeptic Magazine with 23 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as an Executive Director for ...

Michael Shermer talks with host Larry Mantle about the recent passing of one of the great minds of contemporary science, Stephen Jay Gould, and other current science stories in the news. Michael ...