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Are You Skeptical Enough? Challenging Your Beliefs with Michael Shermer

The Science of Success

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The Scientific Humanists or Enlightened Humanism

The subtitle of my book is Reflections of the Scientific Humanists. I've steered away from secular humanism as a phrase that's been around since the 1930s, largely emerged out of far left liberal thinking. The enlightenment idea is that there is an empirical world. There is a reality. We can know it. Not 100%. But we can approach it. And that some systems are better than others.

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