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The New Moral Science & its Discontents
John Hamby has a Ph.D. in Psychological Foundations of Educations from the University of Florida. Now retired, he was a teacher, principal, and college professor. He helped found the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University...
In Memoriam: Bayard Brattstrom
I met Bayard Brattstrom in the Fall of 1976, when I matriculated at California State University, Fullerton in the M.A. program in Experimental Psychology and decided to supplement my studies there with an introductory course in evolutionary...
The Shroud of Turin and the Meaning of Faith
In June of 2024 Skeptic magazine returned to the subject of the Shroud of Turin in Andrea Nicolotti’s guest columnist article on this platform, “The History and Legends of the World’s Most Famous Relic,” which we subsequently published in S...
Does the West Need a Religious Revival?
Paramount Theater, Austin, Texas. February 27, 2025.
Gathered here were over 2,000 people in a standing-room only theater to witness the debate with myself and Adam Carolla vs. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ross Douthat on the title question “Does t...
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Michael Shermer is Publisher of Skeptic magazine, Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, host of The Michael Shermer Show, and author of numerous books.
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