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Michael Shermer
Personal blog · michaelshermer.com/articlessciencephilosophy
Michael Shermer's personal blog at michaelshermer.com covers science and philosophy. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Michael Shermer's articles on why smart people believe weird things, homeopathy, conspiracy beliefs, and his Genesis Revisited satire, as well as his accounts of Edge dinners.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the Science Salon Podcast, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwi
Most-linked posts?
- Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-08
What Hacker News says?
Wow. My favorite, by Michael Shermer ( https://michaelshermer.com/articles/genesis-revisited/ ): In the beginning — specifically on October 23, 4004 B.C., at noon — out of quantum foam fluctuation God created the Big Bang. The bang was followed by cosmological inflation. God saw that the Big Bang was very big, too big for creatures that could worship him, so He created the earth. And darkness was upon the face of th…
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on “YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]”Submitted Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt is fascinating. It's also interesting when otherwise rational, smart, people believe weird things. http://www.michaelshermer.com/2002/09/smart-people-believe-w... I know people with degree (good degrees, good English universities) in Chemistry who believe in and use homeopathy. It's baffling.
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on “Homeopathic remedies recalled for containing real medicine”Submitted Re: the efficacy of wheatgrass as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI disagree that most conspiracy theorists are mentally ill, except maybe in some extremely loose definition of the term, where mere illogic is equated with mental illness. I like this quote from Michael Shermer: "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons." Smart people frequently get involved in conspiracy theories through a combination of c…
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on “FBI says “extremists” motivated by Pizzagate, QAnon are threats”Who says it started in 2011? I find that hard to believe. Gates was having interviews with John Brockman's edge.org in 1996: https://www.edge.org/conversation/bill_gates-digerati-chapte... Gates was at The Edge dinners in 2010: https://michaelshermer.com/articles/my-dinner-with-bill-gate... Jeffrey Epstein funded The Edge in the late 90s early 2000s, then not around 2008/9 during his first trial and prison, then aga…
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on “Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin's Creator”
