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 ...

"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic ...

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 ...

Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology.

The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit, member-supported organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs. The ...

Conspiratorial thinking has always been a part of American political thought, but in recent years, fringe beliefs seem to be moving more into the mainstream. People who push disproven conspiracies ...

The news media have once again been scrambling to find the deep underlying causes of shocking events. We saw this impulse in the rush to explain the tragic murder of six people at a shopping center in ...

. We laughed. We thought it was hysterical that anyone could be so closed-minded as to argue with scientific analysis — then say it out loud and expect anyone to buy it. But a lot of people did buy it ...

The House recently voted 396-9 to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase "In God We Trust" and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The ...

Foreword : art and science in the fullness of life / Michael Shermer -- 1. Soul or machine? -- 2. What is art about? -- 3. How science changed the subject -- 4. The handwriting on the gallery wall : ...

Science expert Michael Shermer joins Larry Mantle to talk about the latest science stories in the news including the Columbia shuttle disaster, the death of Dolly the cloned sheep, new theories on the ...