"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic ...

Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and "Intelligent Design" campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology.

The Skeptics Society is a nonprofit, member-supported organization devoted to promoting scientific skepticism and resisting the spread of pseudoscience, superstition, and irrational beliefs. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Shermer examines the psychology behind pattern seeking, the limits of suspicion, and how the Epstein files fuel conspiracy ...

Michael Shermer talks with host Larry Mantle about the recent passing of one of the great minds of contemporary science, Stephen Jay Gould, and other current science stories in the news. LAist is an ...

It can seem like everyone feels entitled to their own opinions and even their own facts. But skeptic Michael Shermer argues that reports of truth’s death are greatly exaggerated. In his forthcoming ...

There are scientific truths, religious truths, historical truths, mythical truths, and more. In our current swamp of misinformation, disinformation, truthiness, rewritten history, conspiracy theories, ...

Michael Shermer’s opinion piece on UFOs (now called UAP, or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) left me confused ("After reporting on UFO sightings for decades, I've come to this conclusion," Jan.

The news media have once again been scrambling to find the deep underlying causes of shocking events. We saw this impulse in the rush to explain the tragic murder of six people at a shopping center in ...

Science expert Michael Shermer joins Larry Mantle to talk about the latest science stories in the news including the Columbia shuttle disaster, the death of Dolly the cloned sheep, new theories on the ...