Speculation about extraterrestrial life has rarely been far from public debate, and one Harvard researcher continues to push ...

Is humanity on the brink of the most profound discovery in history, or are we merely chasing shadows in the dark? This is the ...

More recently, proponents of UAPs as alien spacecraft have appeared before the U.S. Congress, confidently claiming that they ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the passing of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy last month and the accompanying fusillade of documentaries purporting to prove there was a conspiracy behind ...

"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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...