All of this was packaged into a documentary released last year by the noted filmmaker Dan Farah, “ The Age of Disclosure ,” ...

I want to demonstrate to Michael Shermer that it’s possible for men like us to not talk about trans people constantly. If I can do it, so can he.

"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 ...

Are we really living in a post-truth era? Understanding the psychology of belief can help us think more clearly and act more bravely.

Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and the author of "Why Darwin Matters," joins Larry Mantle to talk about the legacy of Charles Darwin and two myths about evolution that persist ...

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 ...

There are scientific truths, religious truths, historical truths, mythical truths, and more. In our current swamp of misinformation, disinformation, truthiness, rewritten history, conspiracy theories, ...

This is a review of Truth: What It Is, How To Find It & Why It Still Matters. by Michael Shermer, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press. Amidst claims of “fake news,” “alternative facts,” ...

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 ...