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• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Searching for the True Sources of Crime

  Where neuroscience meets criminology

  By Michael Shermer   | May 29, 2013  | 19

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  The Science of Guns Proves Arming Untrained Citizens Is a Bad Idea

  How data can help clarify the gun-control debate

  By Michael Shermer   | May 8, 2013  | 210

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  Why a Near-Death Experience Isn’t Proof of Heaven

  Did a neurosurgeon go to heaven?

  By Michael Shermer   | Apr 13, 2013  | 125

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  How Skeptics Can Break the Cycle of False Beliefs

  Pluralistic ignorance and the last best hope on Earth

  By Michael Shermer   | Mar 19, 2013  | 18

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  The Liberals' War on Science

  How politics distorts science on both ends of the spectrum

  By Michael Shermer   | Jan 21, 2013  | 186

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  The Mind’s Compartments Create Conflicting Beliefs

  How our modular brains lead us to deny and distort evidence

  By Michael Shermer   | Jan 12, 2013  | 73

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  How Communities Shape Our Morals

  Nazis did not just blindly follow orders

  By Michael Shermer   | Dec 15, 2012  | 27

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  What Milgram’s Shock Experiments Really Mean

  Replicating Milgram's shock experiments reveals not blind obedience but deep moral conflict

  By Michael Shermer   | Nov 12, 2012  | 12

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Why Your Brain Is Irrational about Obama and Romney

  Subliminal influences guide our voting preferences

  By Michael Shermer   | Sep 25, 2012  | 27

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories

  Why people who believe in one conspiracy are prone to believe others

  By Michael Shermer   | Aug 18, 2012  | 107

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  How Free Will Collides with Unconscious Impulses

  Volition as self-control exerts veto power over impulses

  By Michael Shermer   | Jul 26, 2012  | 57

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  Proof That the Brain Creates the Conscious Mind

  The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry

  By Michael Shermer   | Jun 28, 2012  | 51

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  What Happens to Consciousness When We Die

  The death of the brain means subjective experiences are neurochemistry

  By Michael Shermer   | Jun 27, 2012  | 99

• Scientific American Magazine |  Evolution

  Evolution Explains Why Politics Is So Tribal

  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

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Much Ado about Nothing

  Science closes in on why there is something instead of nothing

  By Michael Shermer   | Apr 27, 2012  | 76

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  Climbing Mount Immortality: Death, Cognition and the Making of Civilization

  How awareness of our mortality may be a major driver of civilization

  By Michael Shermer   | Apr 6, 2012  | 71

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  How We Opt Out of Overoptimism: Our Habit of Ignoring What Is Real Is a Double-Edged Sword

  The willful distortion of reality to extremes can be harmful

  By Michael Shermer   | Mar 14, 2012  | 8

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  Lies We Tell Ourselves: How Deception Leads to Self-Deception

  How deception leads to self-deception

  By Michael Shermer   | Feb 4, 2012  | 16

• Scientific American Magazine |  Technology

  In the Year 9595

  Why the singularity is not near, but hope springs eternal

  By Michael Shermer   | Dec 28, 2011  | 47

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Sacred Salubriousness: Why Religious Belief Is Not the Only Path to a Healthier Life

  New research on self-control explains the link between religion and health

  Dec 19, 2011  | 23

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  The Real Science behind Scientology

  It's not what you think

  By Michael Shermer   | Oct 20, 2011  | 47

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  The Decline of Violence

  Be skeptical of claims that we live in an ever more dangerous world

  By Michael Shermer   | Oct 7, 2011  | 22

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  What Is Pseudoscience?

  Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience is problematic

  By Michael Shermer   | Sep 15, 2011  | 64

• Scientific American Magazine |  More Science

  Globaloney: Why the World Is Not Flat...Yet

  By Michael Shermer   | Aug 4, 2011  | 13

• Scientific American Magazine |  Mind & Brain

  The Believing Brain: Why Science Is the Only Way Out of Belief-Dependent Realism

  By Michael Shermer   | Jul 5, 2011  | 57

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