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Shermer does TED and explains how two of the brain’s most basic, hard-wired traits, useful for survival, backfire on us: Your Thoughts?
Posts Tagged ‘Michael Shermer’
Michael Shermer On “The Pattern Behind Self-Deception”
June 14th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Tony Blair On Our Allies Who Live Within Theocracies
June 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Michael Shermer got the chance to ask Tony Blair how we spread various central Western ideals of democracy, education, civil liberties, equality, etc. in hostile theocratic countries without resorting to military force. Part of Blair’s answer: “It’s one of the great myths perpetrated in our own societies is that somehow people who live in oppressive [...]
Posted in Feminism, Politics, Secularism, Theocracy, Women's Issues, World Affairs 
Tags: Michael Shermer, Tony Blair 
No Comments »Shermer To Maher: Being Anti-Vaccination Is Tantamount To Being Anti-Evolution
October 22nd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Bill Maher’s mistrust of western medicine has been earning him a lot of flak from the scientific and skeptic communities. Here is the latest, an open letter from Michael Shermer: I believe that when it comes to alternative medicine in general and vaccinations in particular you have fallen prey to the same cognitive biases and [...]
Posted in Biology, Evolution Tags: Anti-Vaccinations, Anti-Vaccine, Bill Maher, Michael Shermer 6 Comments »Daily Hilarity: “Mr. Deity and the Skeptic”
September 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Guest appearance by Michael Shermer! Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Shermer’s latest book is The Mind of the Market, on [...]
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Divine Intervention, Faith, Hilarious, Miracles, Mr. Deity, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire, Skepticism, Videos Tags: Abraham and Isaac, Michael Shermer No Comments »Dispelling The Myth That Nazism Was An Outgrowth Of Darwinian Atheism
August 16th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In April of last year, Richard Dawkins wrote this letter (which should be read in full) to someone duped by the slander that Darwinian atheism led to Hitler’s ideals and goals: His horrible bidding was done by millions of ordinary German footsoldiers, and the great majority of them were Christians. Many were Lutheran, and many [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Ethics, History, Metaethics, Politics, PZ Myers, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism Tags: Adolph Hitler, Artificial Selection, Ben Stein, Christian Anti-Semitism, Darwinism, European Anti-Semitism, Expelled, Herbert Spencer, Hitler and Atheism, Hitler and Catholocism, John D Rockefeller, Mein Kampf, Michael Shermer, Natural Selection, Political Ethics, Richard Dawkins, Science and Ethics, Social Darwinism, World War II No Comments »Debunking The Bible Code
August 13th, 2009 Daniel Fincke via Holly Pugliares Your Thoughts?
Posted in Religion, Videos Tags: "Bible Code", Barry Simon, Michael Drosnin, Michael Shermer No Comments »Debate On Miracles
July 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael Shermer vs. Adrian Holloway
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