5. Why People Believe Weird Things | Dr Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic. In this podcast we discuss the Pentagon UFO videos, the documentary “Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation”, the UFO entertainment business, “Mirage Man”, ancient civilizations, water memory and homeopathy, the paranormal, cold fusion, and quantum quackery and mysticism.The video podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/p8ls1oSQvc0His new book “Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist” is available now https://amzn.to/32PPZMh. During this podcast we discussed topics included in his two other books “Why People Believe Weird Things” (https://amzn.to/35219jI) and “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye” (https://amzn.to/3lJTxbK). Michael’s full list of articles and books is available here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...You can find his course “Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist” here: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/cours...Find out more: www.skeptics.com and https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelS....