Also my favorite podcast. Michael is so smart and an excellent host. The subjects are fascinating and his style is both casual and intelligent.

Out of all the podcast I follow this is the one I listen to the most. Always great conversation and interesting guests! Thanks Michael!

I appreciate the religious skepticism and the guests, but Shermer expresses too much personal bias on political issues while he is interviewing people. He did name is show after himself. It looks like the show is more about Shermer trying to figure out what to think and expressing his opinion and judgment as a result.

Never seem to see opposition views…personally as a medical provider, I see no difference in care post RvWade

OK, I like Shermer’s show, even though it needs an editor, often runs far too long, in spite of the abrupt interruptions. I do like to open my mind past my initial prejudices and assumptions and to drain some of the skewing emotion out of the cognitive brew. The guests are often impressive and interesting. But there is a certain smugness in his delivery. A certain self-satisfied superiority. The rest of us simians are just a little too alarmist and captive to our priors while he is the ultra-rationalist and oh so superior. His take on the Trump re-election (which is an unmitigated disaster for the country) is a case in point. We’ll soon see how much there is to truly be upset about. I hope when it comes to pass, Shermer will admit he was oh so wrong. Sometimes intuition and emotion serve us well as a species. And we do have plenty of hard evidence to justify the alarm —past indefensible actions and statements ungoverned by reason or good advice this time. Buckle up, America.

It seems that Shermer is now someone masquerading as a skeptic as he latches onto far right tropes and fear mongering. I can only assume this is to try and appeal to a larger audience but for someone looking for a reasonable and fact based look at the world, this ain’t it. I keep waiting for an episode with a good interview but instead keep getting Shermers monologues on how Trumps just such a good candidate and how trans women are bad. It won’t be long before he’s another far right pseudoscience con artist.

Michael Schermer is a real twerp. Some of his guests are quite interesting.

Where is Shermer when a gen-o-cide is happening in real time? Where art thou Michael? “Spiral of silence”? Will you use that excuse to exonerate yourself 5 years from now? Mr Pinker? Mr enlightenment? Mr rationality? Where art thou??? No longer respect these so called meliorist. Epic failure.

Of bigotry maybe.

I’ve been a longtime fan of The Skeptic and Shermer. But as if late, I think he has drifted off track. For the man that wrote “The Arc”, I think he has devolved into a defensive curmudgeon. This episode trashing DEI is an example, as well as his criticisms of the handling of Covid. I don’t know what world he lives in but I think it has become warped by living online. In the real world, racism is rampant. In the real world, we react to Covid with the best knowledge available at the time. I’m sorry, but this was probably the last episode I will listen to. Although he claims to be libration, he has become reactionary.