Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer

Dr. Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University.

4 min
How to shut down coronavirus conspiracy theories
The larger the stakes and scope, the less likely a conspiracy theory is to be true.
4 min
What kind of government will exist on Mars?
The lessons we've learned here on Earth will affect how we govern a new world.
5 min
Should we defend the free speech of everyone — extremists included?
You can't really have an opinion if you don't know all sides of the argument.
4 min
The science of why we can’t live forever
Here's why stars fade out — and so do we.
6 min
How trying to solve death makes life, here and now, worse
Maybe we should stop worrying about what happens after we die, and make the best of what we have on earth right now.