Michael Shermer, Free Speech & Skepticism

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FIRE’s Senior Writer & Editor Angel Eduardo sits down with author, public intellectual, and noted skeptic Michael Shermer to discuss free expression, free inquiry, conspiracies, RFK Jr., Joe Rogan, skepticism, and what he thinks the biggest threat to free speech is today.

Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He writes a weekly Substack column. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist and Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.

https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/
https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/
https://michaelshermer.substack.com/
https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/