#770 - Michael Shermer

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4.6 • 228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2016

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And we're live.
0:05.0	Mr. Sharma.
0:07.0	Thanks.
0:08.0	Thanks for having me.
0:09.0	Thanks for being here, man.
0:10.0	I have been paying attention to your work for a long time.
0:12.8	It's a...
0:13.5	Oh, you're the one.
0:14.5	Yeah, thanks. Yes, I'm one of those guys.
0:16.5	I'm sure you've got a lot.
0:17.6	But I've got a bunch of your books here.
0:20.2	Thanks for bringing those in.
0:21.1	I really appreciate that.
0:22.1	Sure. Stuff really appreciate that. Sure.
0:23.0	Stuff to read now.
0:24.0	How did you get involved in skepticism?
0:26.0	I know you started off as a cyclist, right?
0:29.0	Yeah, well I was a bike racer from 1980 to about 1990, about 10 years. In between when I was first in
0:37.5	college I went to Pepperdine and then Cal State Fullerton and then I just was
0:41.3	burnt out. I had a master's degree and I just decided I didn't want to do another six straight years of PhD work.
0:48.0	So I quit and I went over the placement office at Cal State Fullerton and said, well, I need a job.
0:52.8	They said, nothing.
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