



How data can help clarify the gun-control debate
By Michael Shermer | May 8, 2013 | 197
Did a neurosurgeon go to heaven?
By Michael Shermer | Apr 13, 2013 | 117
Pluralistic ignorance and the last best hope on Earth
By Michael Shermer | Mar 19, 2013 | 18
How politics distorts science on both ends of the spectrum
By Michael Shermer | Jan 21, 2013 | 185
How our modular brains lead us to deny and distort evidence
By Michael Shermer | Jan 12, 2013 | 73
Nazis did not just blindly follow orders
By Michael Shermer | Dec 15, 2012 | 27
Replicating Milgram's shock experiments reveals not blind obedience but deep moral conflict
By Michael Shermer | Nov 12, 2012 | 12
Subliminal influences guide our voting preferences
By Michael Shermer | Sep 25, 2012 | 27
Why people who believe in one conspiracy are prone to believe others
By Michael Shermer | Aug 18, 2012 | 105
Volition as self-control exerts veto power over impulses
By Michael Shermer | Jul 26, 2012 | 57
The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry
By Michael Shermer | Jun 28, 2012 | 50
The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry
By Michael Shermer | Jun 27, 2012 | 99
Morality binds us together into cohesive groups but blinds us to the ideas and motives of those in other groups
By Michael Shermer | Jun 13, 2012 | 40
Science closes in on why there is something instead of nothing
By Michael Shermer | Apr 27, 2012 | 76
How awareness of our mortality may be a major driver of civilization
By Michael Shermer | Apr 6, 2012 | 71
The willful distortion of reality to extremes can be harmful
By Michael Shermer | Mar 14, 2012 | 8
How deception leads to self-deception
By Michael Shermer | Feb 4, 2012 | 16
Why the singularity is not near, but hope springs eternal
By Michael Shermer | Dec 28, 2011 | 47
New research on self-control explains the link between religion and health
Dec 19, 2011 | 23
It's not what you think
By Michael Shermer | Oct 20, 2011 | 47
Be skeptical of claims that we live in an ever more dangerous world
By Michael Shermer | Oct 7, 2011 | 21
Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience is problematic
By Michael Shermer | Sep 15, 2011 | 64
By Michael Shermer | Aug 4, 2011 | 13
By Michael Shermer | Jul 5, 2011 | 57
Why Stephen Hawking is wrong about the danger of extraterrestrial intelligences
By Michael Shermer | May 19, 2011 | 72
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