Michael ShermerOvjeren akaunt

@michaelshermer

Author Giving the Devil His Due, Host Science Salon Podcast, Publisher Skeptic Magazine, Presidential Fellow Chapman University.

Santa Barbara, CA
Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2009.

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    I am honored to announce that my next book, Giving the Devil His Due—my defense of free speech, open inquiry, science, reason, & heterodox thinking—is now available for pre-order:

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  2. To clarify: I do NOT endorse this logic. It might have made sense in the 60s (eg, Lyndon Johnson's 1965 speech about putting chained people in a race & expecting them to compete) it is time to lower all barriers to entry, give everyone a shot, & use a merit-based system.

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  3. The logic: For a century+ universities discriminated against women, blacks, Jews & minorities. To correct this injustice it is not enough to open the doors to all who qualify. Reverse discrimination is needed as a corrective. For how long? Who knows?

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  4. The Great Courses Plus now has a new app wherein you can subscribe for a low fee & take as many courses as you like and/or listen to individual lectures from any courses. They are now a sponsor of the Science Salon podcast & are offering a great deal:

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  5. Dear I love your writing & thinking but I disagree that the solution to our race problems is Christianity. You (& ) site Galatians 3:28, but it is not a declaration of transcendent equality. I explain why in The Moral Arc:

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  6. 1 fascinating study Klein quotes found that “priming white college students to think about the concept of white privilege led them to express more racial resentment in subsequent surveys.” Anti-racist indoctrination actually feeds racism—tribalism deepens

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  8. ICYMI... Science Salon #101 Hugo Mercier Not Born Yesterday New research shows that we're not nearly as gullible as we thought and that, in fact, we are natural born skeptics. Naturally I like this thesis, but hear his arguments yourself:

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  9. A beautiful tribute to a life well lived, and how we all live on in the lives of others. You see, Kobe, you really had a wonderful life. "Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" —It's a Wonderful Life

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  10. How could Germans, among the most educated & cultured people, be taken in by Nazi ideology? Hugo Mercier’s answer: most of them weren’t. Pluralistic ignorance, coupled to the KL system of imprisonment of dissenters, held the ideology aloft for 12 years.

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  11. Another disturbing aspect of the photographic evidence from the death camps are those picturing the mass murderers leading normal lives while carrying out genocide—the banality of evil on display (here, Sobibor SS). We expect monsters but instead are confronted with ordinariness.

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  12. Very difficult to match faces from photographs 50 years apart, but as I read the evidence in this case John Demjanjuk was at Sobibor (but not Treblinka as Ivan the Terrible) & the new photographs seem to confirm it. See also Netflix doc The Devil Next Door

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  13. 1st review is in: "a very special book written for people that actually spend time thinking. Geez, come to think of it, that’s kinda special in & of itself, 'people thinking about things' because nowadays society is geared to the opposite of deep thinking”

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  14. "Conflict Changes How People View God" Super interesting & important study by & her team. Instead of how religions cause wars/conflicts, this study reverses the causal vector to how "how conflict can change the nature of religious belief."

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  15. Thinking about Kobe on today’s ride & about living each day as if it is our last. What if I don’t make it home today? Did I tell those I love how much I do? Am I grateful for life in the improbable odds against my existence? Have I shown gratitude to those who have helped me?

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  16. This week’s cycling audio book argues behavioral contagions are so powerful (smoking, helmets, diets/weight, alcohol, pot, climate response) they should be regulated & taxed. Robert is on my podcast Friday. What should I ask/challenge him?

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  17. Science Salon #101 Hugo Mercier Not Born Yesterday Why: —“default to truth” theory is wrong —people join religions, cults or ISIS —we are not living in a post-truth era —most Germans did not believe Nazi ideology —we're not that gullible

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  18. This is by far and away the best podcast on freedom of speech. By His latest episode brings us to the Nazi regime... Clear and Present Danger podcast – Episode 39: The Totalitarian Temptation, Part II – Der Untergang

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  19. Thanks Here's the passage from The Moral Arc, published in 2015 before President You-Know-Who and Mayor Pete...

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  20. Of the many films about the Holocaust & Auschwitz this series—BBC's 6-part "Auschwitz: The Nazis And The Final Solution"—is the best. Previously streamed on Netflix, now here & there. Episode 6 on the liberation & aftermath is especially poignant:

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  21. Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Our way of paying honor to the victims & their families: The Crooked Timber of Auschwitz A brief history of how a concentration camp became an extermination center

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