Michael Shermer - Skeptic Columns Published in Scientific American

Skeptic Columns Published in Scientific American

  • 2001–04 Colorful Pebbles and Darwin's Dictum
  • 2001–05 The Erotic–Fierce People
  • 2001–06 Fox's Flapdoodle
  • 2001–07 Starbucks in the Forbidden City
  • 2001–08 Deconstructing the Dead
  • 2001–09 Nano Nonsense and Cryonics
  • 2001–10 I Was Wrong
  • 2001–11 Baloney Detection
  • 2001–12 More Baloney Detection
  • 2002–01 Shermer’s Last Law
  • 2002–02 The Gradual Illumination of the Mind
  • 2002–03 Hermits and Cranks
  • 2002–04 Skepticism as a Virtue
  • 2002–05 The Exquisite Balance
  • 2002–06 The Shamans of Scientism
  • 2002–07 Vox Populi
  • 2002–08 Why ET Hasn’t Called
  • 2002–09 Smart People Believe Weird Things
  • 2002–10 The Physicist and the Abalone Diver
  • 2002–11 Mesmerized by Magnetism
  • 2002–12 The Captain Kirk Principle
  • 2003–01 Digits and Fidgets
  • 2003–02 Psychic Drift
  • 2003–03 Demon–Haunted Brain
  • 2003–04 I, Clone
  • 2003–05 Show Me the Body
  • 2003–06 Codified Claptrap
  • 2003–07 Bottled Twaddle
  • 2003–08 The Ignoble Savage
  • 2003–09 The Domesticated Savage
  • 2003–10 Remember the Six Billion
  • 2003–11 Candle in the Dark
  • 2003–12 What’s the Harm
  • 2004–01 Bunkum!
  • 2004–02 A Bounty of Science
  • 2004–03 None So Blind
  • 2004–04 Magic Water and Mencken’s Maxim
  • 2004–05 The Enchanted Glass
  • 2004–06 Death by Theory
  • 2004–07 God’s Number Is Up
  • 2004–08 Miracle on Probability Street
  • 2004–09 Mustangs, Monists and Meaning
  • 2004–10 The Myth Is the Message
  • 2004–11 Flying Carpets and Scientifi c Prayers
  • 2004–12 Common Sense
  • 2005–01 Quantum Quackery
  • 2005–02 Abducted!
  • 2005–03 The Fossil Fallacy
  • 2005–04 The Feynman–Tufte Principle
  • 2005–05 Turn Me On, Dead Man
  • 2005–06 Fahrenheit 2777
  • 2005–07 Hope Springs Eternal
  • 2005–08 Full of Holes
  • 2005–09 Rumsfeld’s Wisdom
  • 2005–10 Unweaving the Heart
  • 2005–11 Rupert’s Resonance
  • 2005–12 Mr. Skeptic Goes to Esalen
  • 2006–01 Murdercide
  • 2006–02 It’s Dogged as Does It
  • 2006–03 Cures and Cons
  • 2006–04 As Luck Would Have It
  • 2006–05 SHAM Scam
  • 2006–06 The Flipping Point
  • 2006–07 The Political Brain
  • 2006–08 Folk Science
  • 2006–09 Fake, Mistake, Replicate
  • 2006–10 Darwin on the Right
  • 2006–11 Wronger Than Wrong
  • 2006–12 Bowling for God
  • 2007–01 Airborne Baloney
  • 2007–02 Eat, Drink and Be Merry
  • 2007–03 (Can't Get No) Satisfaction
  • 2007–04 Free to Choose
  • 2007–05 Bush's Mistake and Kennedy's Error
  • 2007–06 The (Other) Secret
  • 2007–07 The Prospects for Homo economicus
  • 2007–08 Bad Apples and Bad Barrels
  • 2007–09 Rational Atheism
  • 2007–10 The Really Hard Science
  • 2007–11 Weirdonomics and Quirkology
  • 2007–12 An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science
  • 2008–01 Evonomics
  • 2008–02 The Mind of the Market
  • 2008–03 Adam's Maxim and Spinoza's Conjecture
  • 2008–04 Wag the Dog
  • 2008–05 A New Phrenology?
  • 2008–06 Expelled Exposed
  • 2008–07 Sacred Science
  • 2008–08 Wheat Grass Juice and Folk Medicine
  • 2008–09 Folk Numeracy and Middle Land
  • 2008–10 A Random Walk Through Middle Land
  • 2008–11 Stage Fright
  • 2008–12 Patternicity
  • 2009–01 Telephone to the Dead
  • 2009–02 Darwin Misunderstood
  • 2009–07 I Want to Believe
  • 2009–08 Shakespeare, Interrupted
  • 2009–09 Skeptic – Paranoia Strikes Deep
  • 2009–10 Captain Hook Meets Adam Smith
  • 2009–11 Will E.T. Look Like Us?
  • 2009–12 Political Science: The Psychological Differences in the U.S.'s Red–Blue Divide
  • 2010–01 Kool–Aid Psychology: Realism versus Optimism
  • 2010–02 Cultivate Your Garden
  • 2010–03 Surviving Death on Larry King Live
  • 2010–04 The Sensed–Presence Effect
  • 2010–05 Doing Science in the Past
  • 2010–06 When Ideas Have Sex
  • 2010–07 When Scientists Sin
  • 2010–08 Our Neanderthal Brethren
  • 2010–09 Democracy’s Laboratory
  • 2010–10 Can You Hear Me Now
  • 2010–11 The Skeptic’s Skeptic
  • 2010–12 The Conspiracy Theory Detector
  • 2011–01 The Science of Right and Wrong
  • 2011-02 Houdini's Advice
  • 2011-03 Wrong Again
  • 2011-04 UFOs, UAPs, CRAPs
  • 2011-05 Extra Sensory Pornception
  • 2011-06 The Myth of Evil Aliens
  • 2011-07 The Believing Brain
  • 2011-08 Globaloney
  • 2011-09 What is Pseudoscience?
  • 2011-10 The Decline of Violence
  • 2011-11 The Real Science Behind Scientology
  • 2011–12 Sacred Salubriousness
  • 2012-01 In the Year 9595
  • 2012-02 Lies We Tell Ourselves
  • 2012-03 Opting Out of Over-Optimism
  • 2012-04 Climbing Mount Immortality
  • 2012-05 Much Ado About Nothing
  • 2012–06 The Science of Righteousness
  • 2012-07 Aunt Millie's Mind
  • 2012-08 Free Won't

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