Reason: Michael Shermer: Conspiracy Thinking, Wokeness, and the Future of Free Thought
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Michael Shermer
Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The author of over a dozen books, Shermer is known for engaging in debates on pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.
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culture · American science writer (born 1954) · historian of science · journalist · sport cyclist · psychologist · philosopher · columnist · science journalist · author · also Michael Shermer, Michael Brant Shermer, Shermer
Born 8 September 1954 · Q126225
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2022· 1 entry
Reason: Michael Shermer: 'Women Are Not Just Tits and Ass. There's More to It Than That, a Lot More.'
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2020· 2 entries
Shermer launched Giving the Devil His Due, a series of 30 reflections on essays that he had published the previous 15 years
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In a review of his book Giving the Devil His Due, Fara Dabhoiwala stated that several of Shermer's public speaking engagements had been canceled as a result of these allegations
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2019· 1 entry
Illinois Wesleyan University canceled Shermer's visit for the President's Convocation at that institution after it learned of the sexual assault allegations
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2018· 1 entry
Undark Magazine reported that the allegations against Shermer began to emerge in 2013 and 2014
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2017· 3 entries
Wall Street Journal: Michael Shermer’s Skeptical Eye
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RealClearPolitics: Dennis Prager & Michael Shermer Conversation With Dave Rubin: Discussing Beliefs About Belief
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Eugene Goodheart noted that Shermer identified skepticism with scientism and observed that in his book Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Skeptical Eye (2016) Shermer was a "vivid and lucid" writer who imported his "polit
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2014· 2 entries
c-span: Michael Shermer
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Married Jennifer Graf, a native of Cologne, Germany
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2012· 1 entry
Shermer was one of three guest speakers at the first Reason Rally in Washington, D
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2011· 1 entry
Worked as an adjunct professor at Chapman University, and was later made a Presidential Fellow
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Premio Prismas (2009).
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2007· 1 entry
Shermer became a senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University
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2006· 1 entry
"The pattern behind self-deception" in 2010, and "Reasonable Doubt" in 2015
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2003· 1 entry
LAist: Science Talk: Michael Shermer
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2000· 1 entry
Shermer voted for libertarian Harry Browne, on the assumption that the winner of the Al Gore – George W
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1999· 1 entry
Shermer co-produced and co-hosted the Fox Family TV series Exploring the Unknown
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1994· 3 entries
And 1995, Shermer made several appearances on NBC's daytime paranormal-themed show The Other Side
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To respond to Bradley Smith's and David Cole's Holocaust denial claims, and in 1995 on The Oprah Winfrey Show to challenge Rosemary Altea's psychic claims
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“We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.”
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1991· 1 entry
Shermer and Pat Linse co-founded the Skeptics Society in Los Angeles with the assistance of Kim Ziel Shermer
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1982· 1 entry
Worked with Wayman Spence, whose small supply company, Spenco Medical, adapted the gel technology Spence developed for bedridden patients with pressure sores into cycling gloves and saddles to alleviate the carpal tun
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1979· 1 entry
And rode professionally for ten years, primarily in long distance ultramarathon road racing
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1978· 1 entry
Shermer worked as a writer for a bicycle magazine in Irvine, California
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1972· 1 entry
Graduated from Crescenta Valley High School and enrolled at Pepperdine University, intending to pursue Christian theology
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1971· 1 entry
When the evangelical movement in the United States was growing in popularity
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-09-08.
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