Jordan Peterson Disagreements & The Mistakes Of The Left | Michael Shermer Interview

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Michael Shermer (science writer) about his new book “Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist”. Michael discusses how he went from being a born again christian to becoming a famous skeptic. Michael discusses how liberals seem to be repeating the mistakes that conservatives made in the past. In the 1960s it was the left that fought for free speech and now they are the ones supporting cancel culture. Michael also makes clear that you can learn a lot from people you disagree with. Michael discusses why he devoted a whole chapter to why he disagrees with Jordan Peterson on some key points. He reveals how he first heard of Jordan Peterson and what his initial thoughts of him were. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report.
0:06.5	Remind everybody you can get all our videos and audio podcasts absolutely add free and
0:12.1	early at RubinReport.com.
0:14.6	And joining me today is the publisher of Skeptic Magazine, host of the Science Solon podcast
0:19.9	and author of the new book, Giving the Devil His Dew.
0:23.5	Michael Schermer, welcome back to the Rubin Report.
0:25.6	Good to be back.
0:26.9	The Tournament of Champions continues.
0:30.2	We've had a couple technical difficulties today to make this thing happen, but here we are.
0:35.1	I know that as a man of faith, you're going to pray that our connection does.
0:40.5	I'm praying away.
0:41.5	I'm not going to try to pray away the gay for you, but I'm going to try to pray away the
0:45.2	coronavirus plugs in our computer systems here.
0:48.6	It's the 5G you see.
0:50.4	Oh, it's definitely the 5G.
0:53.6	It's coming for everybody.
0:54.6	It's spreading coronavirus.
0:55.6	Coronavirus and the rest of it.
0:57.6	There's a ton I want to get to here because I really love this book and I just said to
1:01.6	you right before we started that so much in my book as well.
1:05.2	We really cover the topics, but come to slightly different conclusions on a couple things and
1:09.8	the way we approach the topics is a little bit different each time.
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