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The Rational View podcast with Dr. Al Scott

Dr. Michael Shermer on conspiracies and the erosion of democratic institutions

Jul 27, 2024
59:34

In this episode I have a special returning guest, the famous Dr. Michael Shermer on the show to discuss the interesting times our neighbours to the south are experiencing.  I’m hoping to discuss the polarization and the bias that have catalyzed conspiratorial thinking emerging around the Trump assassination attempt.

Dr. Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a weekly Substack column. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing BrainWhy Darwin MattersThe Science of Good and EvilThe Moral ArcHeavens on Earth, and Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist Neil deGrasse Tyson has called him “a beacon of reason in an ocean of irrationality”.

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