295 - Michael Shermer (Author/Skeptic)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2018
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Dr. Michael Shermer is the Publisher of Skepticmagazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. He is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, and The Moral Arc. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality & Utopia.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings believers and non-believers. |
| 0:05.3 | Ye faithful, I knee skeptical. |
| 0:09.6 | You're listening to Ten Gentially speaking with Christopher Ryan. |
| 0:14.5 | That's me. This week's guest is Michael Sharmer. |
| 0:18.0 | Really interesting guy. Very |
| 0:20.8 | prolific author, |
| 0:22.8 | editor and founder of |
| 0:26.7 | Skeptic Magazine. |
| 0:29.2 | Publisher, I should say, of Skeptic Magazine. |
| 0:32.7 | He writes a column for Scientific American. |
| 0:37.4 | He teaches a class at Chapman University, Skepticism 101. |
| 0:42.6 | He's the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, |
| 0:46.2 | The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, |
| 0:50.0 | and the book that is coming out this very week. |
| 0:56.7 | Heavens on Earth, |
| 0:59.1 | The Scientific Search for the Afterlife Immortality and Utopia. |
| 1:05.3 | I'll just read a little bit from the Amazon page here. |
| 1:08.8 | In his most ambitious work yet, Sharmer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, |
| 1:15.2 | focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by |
| 1:19.7 | radical life extensionists, |
| 1:21.6 | extropians, transhumanists, cryonesis, |
| 1:25.5 | and mind-uploaders along with utopians who have attempted to create heaven on Earth. |
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