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"Mini" Decoding of Michael Shermer's Advice on Conspiracy Theories

Decoding the Gurus

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Sherman's Mixed History

Sherman: He has a very mixed history, the way I've put it on the publications is good on UFOs and big food generally, bad on anything to do with politics or like modern society. In a way, it's a shame that people in the sort of pro, you might originally have started out with like an agenda that is sort of pro science, pro skepticism, etc. Sort of shift sideways into political and social commentary,. which has a particular slant in Sherman's case, a libertarian slightly right of center one, perhaps. Yeah. The main thing and the reason I wanted to talk about this content was he raises this point, which I've heard argued elsewhere.

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