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(Can't get no) satisfaction. The new science of happiness needs some historical perspective.

scientific article published in March 2007

5 Things We Know to Be True

scientific article

A Mysterious Change of Mind

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

A bounty of science.

scientific article published in February 2004

A new phrenology?

scientific article published in May 2008

A random walk through middle land. How randomness rules our world and why we cannot see it, part 2

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Abducted!

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Adam's Maxim and Spinoza's conjecture.

scientific article published in March 2008

Afterlife for Atheists

scientific article

Agenticity. Why people believe that invisible agents control the world

scientific article published in June 2009

Airborne Baloney

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Alvy's Error and the Meaning of Life

scientific article published in January 2018

An unauthorized autobiography of science

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Apocalypse AI.

scientific article published in February 2017

As luck would have it.

scientific article published in April 2006

Aunt Millie's mind: The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry

scientific article published in July 2012

Bad apples and bad barrels. Lessons in evil from Stanford to Abu Ghraib.

scientific article published in August 2007

Born This Way.

scientific article

Bowling for God.

scientific article

Bush's mistake and Kennedy's error

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

CSI, science. Where neuroscience meets criminology

scientific article published in June 2013

Captain Hook meets Adam Smith

scientific article published on 01 October 2009

Climbing mount immortality. How awareness of our mortality may be a major driver of civilization

scientific article published in April 2012

Codified claptrap. The Bible Code is numerological nonsense masquerading as science

scientific article published on 01 June 2003

Common sense. Surprising new research shows that crowds are often smarter than individuals

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Confessions of a speciesist

scientific article published in January 2014

Conspiracy Central

article

Conspiracy central. Who believes in conspiracy theories--and why.

scientific article published in December 2014

Conspiracy contradictions. Why people who believe in one conspiracy are prone to believe others

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Creationism in 3-D

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Cultivate your garden

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Cérebro e Crenca

book edition

Darwin misunderstood

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Darwin on the right.

scientific article

Darwin, Freud, and the Myth of the Hero in Science

Death Wish

scientific article published in May 2016

Deconstructing the Dead

Democracy's Laboratory

scientific article published on 01 September 2010

Dictators and Diehards

scientific article published on March 1, 2013

Doing science in the past

scientific article published on 01 May 2010

Doomsday Catch.

scientific article

Eat, drink and be merry.

scientific article published in February 2007

Expelled exposed. A film challenging evolution by game show host and financial analyst Ben Stein is a case study in antiscience propaganda.

scientific article

Extrasensory pornception.

scientific article published in May 2011

Fahrenheit 2777: 9/11 has generated the mother of all conspiracy theories

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Fake, mistake, replicate

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Financial Flimflam

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Five myths of terrorism. Wht terror doesn't work

scientific article published in August 2013

Flying carpets and scientific prayers. Scientific experiments claiming that distant intercessory prayer produces salubrious effects are deeply flawed.

scientific article published in November 2004

Folk numeracy and middle land. Why our brains do not intuitively grasp probabilities, Part 1.

scientific article published in September 2008

Folk science

scientific article published on 01 August 2006

Forensic pseudoscience.

scientific article

Free to choose

scientific article

Free won't

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Full of Holes

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Globaloney

scientific article published on 01 August 2011

God's number is up

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Gods of the gaps

scientific article

Gun Science

scientific article published on May 1, 2013

Heavens on earth

scientific article

Here Be zombies.

scientific article published in January 2015

Hooey. Drivel. Baloney ….

scientific article published on March 2016

Hope springs eternal. Can nutritional supplements, biotechnology and nanotechnology help us live forever?

scientific article

Houdini's Skeptical Advice

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

I want to believe.

scientific article published in July 2009

I, clone. The Three Laws of Cloning will protect clones and advance science

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Imagine No Universe.

scientific article

In the Year 9595

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Infrequencies.

scientific article

Inside the outliers

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Is God dying?

scientific article published in December 2013

It's dogged as does it. Retracing Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos shatters a myth but reveals how revolutions in science actually evolve.

scientific article

Kool-aid psychology

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Left Behind.

scientific article published in March 2016

Lies we tell ourselves

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

Logic-Tight Compartments

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Magic water and Mencken's maxim

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Mesmerized by magnetism. An 18th-century investigation into mesmerism shows us how to think about 21st-century therapeutic magnets.

scientific article published in November 2002

Methuselah's Moon Shot

scientific article published on September 2016

Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception

TED2010

Michael Shermer: Why people believe weird things

TED2006

Miracle on probability street. The law of large numbers guarantees that one-in-a-million miracles happen 295 times a day in America

scientific article published on 01 August 2004

Morality is real, objective, and natural

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Mr. Skeptic goes to Esalen

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Much ado about nothing

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Murder in the Cave

scientific article published in January 2016

Murder in the Cave

Murdercide

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Mustangs, monists and meaning

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Negar la historia

book by Michael Shermer

No, There Wasn't an Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago ⬇️

2017 Scientific American news article by Michael Shermer

On Witches and Terrorists

Opting Out of Overoptimism

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Orderly anarchists

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-07-08

Our Neandertal Brethren

scientific article published on August 1, 2010

Outlawing War.

scientific article published in November 2017

Outrageous. Why cops kill.

scientific article

Paranoia strikes deep

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Patternicity

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Perception Deception

scientific article published on 01 November 2015

Philosophy: Creative resilience

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-11-21

Philosophy: What we don't know

journal article; published in Nature on 2012-04-25

Political science.

scientific article published in December 2009

Proof of Hallucination

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Psychic drift. Why most scientists do not believe in ESP and psi phenomena

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Quantum Quackery

Quantum quackery. A hit film justifies hogwash with quantum mechanics

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Rational atheism. An open letter to messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens

scientific article published in September 2007

Resisting the Understandable Appeal of CAM.

scientific article

Romance of the Vanished Past.

scientific article

Rumsfeld's wisdom

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Rupert's resonance

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

SHAM Scam

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Sacred Salubriousness

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Sacred science. Can emergence break the spell of reductionism and put spirituality back into nature?

scientific article published in July 2008

Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

book by Michael Shermer

Science, freedom and trade

scientific article published in Nature

Scientia Humanitatis. Reason, empiricism and skepticism are not virtues of science alone.

scientific article published in June 2015

Shermer's Last Law

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Shock and awe.

scientific article published in November 2012

Skeptic. Shakespeare, interrupted

scientific article published on 01 August 2009

Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

A popular science book by Michael Shermer

Sovereign insanity; how weird beliefs can land you in jail.

scientific article

Stage fright

scientific article published in November 2008

Surviving death on Larry King Live

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Surviving statistics. How the survivor bias distorts reality

scientific article published on 01 September 2014

Telephone to the dead.

scientific article

Terrorism as Self-Help Justice.

scientific article

The (Other) Secret

scientific article (publication date: June 2007)

The Decline of Violence

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

The Fallacy of Excluded Exceptions

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

The Feynman-Tufte principle

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

The Left's War on Science

scientific article published on February 1, 2013

The Major Unsolved Problem in Biology

The Meaning of Life in a Formula.

scientific article published in August 2015

The Moral Arc

book by Michael Shermer

The Myth of the Evil Aliens

scientific article published on 01 June 2011

The Quack of the Gaps Problem

scientific article published in July 2016

The Science of Good and Evil

book by Michael Shermer

The Science of Righteousness

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience

book by Michael Shermer

The alpinists of evil. Nazis did not just blindly follow orders

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

The art of the con

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

The awe delusion. What does the magnificence of the universe have to do with God?

scientific article published in March 2014

The believing brain. Why science is the only way out of the trap of belief-dependent realism

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

The conspiracy theory detector. How to tell the difference between true and false conspiracy theories

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

The dangers of keeping an open mind.

scientific article

The doping dilemma.

scientific article published in April 2008

The flipping point

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

The fossil fallacy.

scientific article published in March 2005

The genesis of justice

scientific article published in May 2014

The gradual illumination of the mind

scientific article published on 01 February 2002

The mind of the market

scientific article published on 01 February 2008

The moral animal: virtue, vice, and human nature

scientific article

The myth is the message. Yet another discovery of the lost continent of Atlantis shows why science and myth make uneasy bedfellows

scientific article published on 01 October 2004

The political brain

scientific article published in July 2006

The prospects for Homo economicus. A new fMRI study debunks the myth that we are rational-utility money maximizers

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

The real science behind scientology

scientific article published in November 2011

The science of right and wrong. Can data determine moral values?

scientific article

The sensed-presence effect

scientific article

The skeptic's skeptic. In the battle for ideas, scientists could learn from Christopher Hitchens

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Tiger Blood and Goat Milk

scientific article published on June 2016

Toward a science of morality: response to Christian Miller's critique

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Turn me on, dead man.

scientific article

UFOs, UAPs and CRAPs

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Unweaving the heart

scientific article published in October 2005

Vacation reading

scientific article published in Nature

Vox Populi. The voice of the people reveals why evolution remains controversial.

scientific article published in July 2002

Wag the dog.

scientific article published in April 2008

Weirdonomics and quirkology

scientific article published in November 2007

What is pseudoscience?

scientific article

What's the harm? Alternative medicine is not everything to gain and nothing to lose

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

Wheatgrass juice and folk medicine

scientific article

When ideas have sex.

scientific article published in June 2010

When science doesn't support beliefs

scientific article

When scientists sin

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Why Darwin Matters

book by Michael Shermer

Why Gloom Trumps Glad.

scientific article

Why People Believe Weird Things ⬇️

book by Michael Shermer

Why some people believe weird things : pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time

Why some people believe weird things : pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time (1997)

Why there is no supernatural morality: response to Miller's opening statement

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Will E.T. look like us?

scientific article published in November 2009

Wronger than wrong. Not all wrong theories are equal

scientific article published in November 2006

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