Michael Shermer on COVID Hysteria, the Religion of Wokeism, and Cults | Ep. 153

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and presidential fellow at Chapman University, to talk about COVID hysteria, the religion of wokeism, the rise of conspiracy theories, vaccines and American ingenuity, masks as a religion, the value of being skeptical, cults in America (and what qualifies as a cult), and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.4	Today, Dr. Michael Schumer.
0:18.3	This guy's the founder of Skeptic Magazine, which you should be reading if you're not
0:21.9	already.
0:22.9	He's a science writer, he's host of the Michael Schumer Show, and he happens to be a presidential
0:27.6	fellow at Chapman University, born in LA, raised in Southern California, still out in
0:33.3	California, and has so many insightful things to educate us on, including skepticism, for
0:39.2	sure, and how it can serve you well and how it can serve you poorly.
0:44.8	And we're going to go from cults to COVID to the craziness during this pandemic and how
0:49.6	it really is affecting people's ability to separate fact from fiction and away truth
0:57.0	versus untruth, like reality versus imaginary.
1:02.0	And I really think a lot of people got sucked into some of these conspiracy theories on
1:05.4	the left and the right, frankly.
1:07.2	And this is a great guy to listen to on how to get yourself out, how to figure out if
1:11.0	you're one of those people, how to stop doing that, and how to stay at least with one
1:15.4	foot in rationality.
1:16.8	Okay, so he's going to walk us through it.
1:18.6	I think you'll find it very entertaining.
1:20.4	We sort of get to, at the end, his belief that we're living in the most moral time in
1:24.1	human history.
1:25.1	Okay?
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