1+ week, 1+ day ago  (661+ words) It's been said that "He who controls the media controls the mind." (Variously attributed to Jim Morrison of the rock band The Doors, along with Noam Chomsky.) And then there's the recent forced sale of TikTok U.S. to an American entity....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (196+ words) A brain biased toward seeing meaning rather than randomness is one of our greatest assets. The price we pay is occasionally connecting dots that don't really belong together.1 "Rob Brotherton The promotion of ghostly enemies while omitting key facts is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (252+ words) Think for yourself'and dress like it too. " New merch at'shop.skeptic.com He was also among the first to explain self-deception as an adaptive evolutionary strategy, first describing the concept in 1976'arguing that we deceive ourselves in order to deceive…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (651+ words) This article, presented here in abridged form, was originally published in Skeptic magazine Vol. 20 No. 4 The two law schools I had applied to'alleged to be among the most progressive'turned me down so I graduated with a degree in a field…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (146+ words) Publishing likes to imagine itself as a marketplace of ideas with a strong immune system: good arguments win, bad ones fade, and editors act as principled gatekeepers. In practice, it's also an industry with thin margins, status anxiety, and a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (678+ words) Think for yourself'and dress like it too. " New merch at'shop.skeptic.com On December 16, 2017,'The New York Times'broke two related stories. The first was the existence of forward-looking infrared videos of UAP (the U.S. government uses the term UAP'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon'as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (92+ words) Michael Shermer recounts the moment he discovered his name in the Jeffrey Epstein files'and uses it as a jumping-off point to tell a few unforgettable stories about con men he's encountered over the years, and how their tactics work. Become…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (317+ words) In this episode, Michael Shermer walks through the core ideas behind his new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters, breaking down how humans confuse meaning with reality, stories with facts, and confidence…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (157+ words) Michael Shermer sits down with attorney and bestselling author Kent Heckenlively for a tense, thoughtful, and surprisingly cordial conversation about UFOs, government secrecy, and the idea of "catastrophic disclosure." Heckenlively argues that something real is being hidden. Not necessarily aliens,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (68+ words) What if the deepest human drive isn't happiness, survival, or even love, but the need to matter? Become a paid member of Skeptic to start commenting To explore complex issues with careful analysis and help you make sense of the…...