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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy (Tom Nichols)

How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything (Mike Rothschild)

Science Denial: Why It Happens & What to Do About It (Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer)

How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions & Fabrications Radically Alter History

Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to 21st Century—Heying & Weinstein on Evolution + Challenges of Modern Life

Doing More With Less—Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less (Leidy Klotz)

The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism

The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit (John Petrocelli)

The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World (Nichola Raihani)

Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, reason, and rationality

Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

How to Talk to a Science Denier (Shermer with Lee McIntyre)

Michael Shermer with Julia Galef: The Scout Mindset

Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA#7)

Episode 200: Shermer talks with Zimbardo (50th Anniversary of the Stanford Prison Experiment)
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