Michael Shermer
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Aella explains some very interesting data about porn and sex. "I asked men how much porn they watch and then I asked them to predict what things women would like in bed. And then I asked women, if a man tried this in bed, how much would you like it? Men who watched porn more were more accurate in their predictions about what women would like. The least accurate men were the guys who did not watch porn at all."
Michael Shermer1,610,283 просмотров • 2 лет назад
Warren Hern is America's most famous late term abortion doctor. Here's how he explained his work on my show. Thoughts? “Do you ever get any women in their second half of the second trimester or in the third trimester that say they have no medical problems. They just don't want the baby. They change their mind. Would you do it?” “Of course. If the woman doesn't want to be pregnant, there's no justification for forcing her to continue the pregnancy.” “Has that happened?” “It happens all the time. She has a potentially fatal illness condition that can kill her. No, no. I mean, if she has no medical problems—the medical problem is that she's pregnant.”
Michael Shermer152,730 просмотров • 1 год назад
I’m in the Epstein files and got invited to the island. Here’s the full story:
Michael Shermer38,584 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад
"I worked for the Speaker of the House. I worked for the President of the United States. One of the things you learn in those jobs is that ultimately no one is fully in charge of anything, and the world is very, very complex. I would read in the Washington Post how Republican leaders had all these plans and they were going to pull things this way or that way. And then I'd get to work and to say that no one had a plan would be a gross understatement. No one had any idea what was going to happen that afternoon. The idea that in a free society somebody is pulling the strings and someone has a nine-step plan and you're just a pawn in it is just very, very implausible. Our society doesn't really work that way. Our elites now are not ultra-competent. You can say a lot of things about them, but I would not say that we have ultra-competent leaders of any institution. I can see the appeal of wanting to believe that it's all a false flag or a plan. But when you actually see the system work—it's both good news and bad news—but nobody's in charge of everything."
Michael Shermer128,354 просмотров • 1 год назад
Alex Pretti shooting: Why scrutinizing frame-by-frame video misses something essential about how humans behave under stress and fear. Responding to comments about my comments... How should we think about personal responsibility and judgment in moments like this?
Michael Shermer37,276 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
“They’ve been praying for me for a month.” Responding to a letter from a class of eighth graders in Texas:
Michael Shermer28,345 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад
My new book Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters is OUT NOW! Here’s a little preview of how we confuse: -meaning with reality -stories with facts -confidence with correctness + why “just asking questions” isn’t as innocent as it sounds.
Michael Shermer34,141 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад
“They miss the fact that women’s sports is itself an inclusion measure. Keeping males out of some competitions is the only way that women can compete fairly and safely. It's an inclusion measure. Stop trying to take away our inclusion.” Helen Joyce on my podcast
Michael Shermer47,161 просмотров • 1 год назад
From “Netflix and chill” to “sleeping together,” we love our doublespeak. Steven Pinker says it’s not an accident:
Michael Shermer28,518 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад
“Believing lies can make people violent.” My reflections on Charlie Kirk’s assassination, political violence, and truth.
Michael Shermer26,816 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад
“Critical race theory and the disciples of the social justice movement have rehabilitated racial thinking to an extreme level, where now it is the first thing that people think about. It's a very sad step backwards and I do believe that we need to reclaim that ideal of colorblindness as a really, really beautiful humanitarian thing. And it isn't to ignore racial or cultural differences. It isn't to demean it. It isn't to pretend they don't exist and say, 'I don't see color in a literal sense.' You just don't treat people differently on that basis. And it's not the thing you think of first when you think of a human being. There's more to us.” Very well said Andrew Doyle! 👏
Michael Shermer37,342 просмотров • 1 год назад
Why God does not exist. My best arguments against the proposition that God does exist, at the Oxford Union Society debate. (I know, you can't prove a negative, but there is substantial positive evidence that humans created the God concept, which I present here.)
Michael Shermer45,553 просмотров • 2 лет назад
“How confident are you that what you believe about the cosmos today will still hold a century from now?” The legendary Astronomer Royal Martin Rees on the limits of knowledge: “In any science, you want to go beyond what we understand. In cosmology, it’s still conjectural what happened in that initial fraction of a second. These ideas will certainly change. The point is that when we go back to one second--and even perhaps to a millisecond--after the Big Bang, the physics was what we think we understand, because we can test it in the lab. But as you extrapolate further, the conditions become more and more extreme, beyond anything we can reproduce on Earth. And so it remains very speculative.”
Michael Shermer20,734 просмотров • 10 месяцев назад