Michael Shermer

It’s not right that the People’s Republic of California is criticized for bureaucratic incompetence. Look here: all the green segments are open for use on our shiny new high-speed rail. https://t.co/MeICDi4l61

“I’m not retreating. I’m advancing to the rear” https://t.co/L0sluyHmVk

“Mutual Assured Destruction for Iranians is not a deterrence but an incentive.” —Bernard Lewis (Paraphrased quote from @bariweiss guest on this important podcast episode: https://t.co/aOKhNAXwc2 https://t.co/g257cf4tkC

The trans movement probably thinks of itself as tolerant, but it is, in fact, intolerant and open anti-gay: "of a cohort of 70 adolescents referred to an Amsterdam clinic from 2000 to 2008, 62 were same-sex attracted. And it’s easy to see that one way to “cure” yourself of

“A penis is not a male body part. It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.” Unusual? If my grandmother had balls she'd be my grandfather. https://t.co/Kjj3dB0Ok6

"abolishing the sex binary for the entire society? That’s a whole other thing entirely. And madness, I believe. What if I redefined what it is to be heterosexual and imposed it on straight people?" Well argued as always @sullydish https://t.co/bgXbqdUcdb

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The author we published years ago in Skeptic, John Anthony Glynn, who turned out to have faked his Ph.D. & other academic credentials, appears to have resurfaced as John Mac Ghlionn & now appears to use LLMs to generate articles he's gotten published: https://t.co/cmUpBY4b50

Technically speaking...when everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone has read When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows...THEN sudden and massive change can happen.

This week we present an epic debate I hosted on my podcast with neuroscientist Christof Koch and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on the nature of consciousness, the mind, the soul, and the afterlife: https://t.co/XQ4xq3Cg0l

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More São Paulo https://t.co/RJEiQcfx9x

El Tour de São Paulo. Beco do Batman art district… https://t.co/VMom1cjxdT

São Paulo has a huge vegan/vegetarian wellness community with lots of vegan restaurants. This isn’t one of them. https://t.co/nFh02IePav

Is there another kind? https://t.co/dCXsx0VA5J

Re @BernieSanders beef about billionaires & oligarchs & his focus on @elonmusk @JeffBezos et al., is an example of Survivorship Bias: focus on individuals, groups, or cases that have passed a selection process while ignoring those who did not. Musk & Bezos almost went bankrupt,