Joshua Blakeney and Anthony J. Hall Investigate Michael Shermer's Academic Credentials

[wimahlers]

As to the claim of being an adjuct professor of economics for Claremont university (or any other university for that matter). I have never seen or heard Michael Shermer claiming to be. I assume the mistake was made by your university. It therfore does NOT reflect the credibility or integrity of Michael Shermer. But it does reflect your biased attitude since you don't even bother to investigate how this came to be in the source of the invitation made by the university itself.

[wimahlers]

Very strange that professor Anthony J. Hall never questioned the 9 books of David Ray Griffin. And gullibly accept any claim David Ray Griffin utters. But other people did scrutinize the claims of David Ray Griffin. And when scrutinized these books are falsified on all relevant facts relating to any of the relevant claims of Griffin. And you can't deny this when you critically examine these issues. The same is true for Niels Harrit. His work too is criticised by peers beyond repairs.

[unRompecabezas]

Is it even conceivable to truthers that people like Shermer (or me) could simply find the evidence for your theory wanting? Or consider your theory itself nothing but a mishmash of incoherent accusations?

I'm with anyone who hated Bush, who deplores the War on Terror, and who laments the corporate control over the information in our society. But truthers aren't supporting their claims by harassing Shermer, or attacking anyone who disagrees with them.

[Xendrius]

Shermer is an idiot, end of story.

[johnbursill]

Good work! But you should maybe look at the content and consider your removal of the Pilots for 9/11 Truth who make false claims about Impossible speed for example.

Thanks John

PS - Other people's images do include Holocaust sceptics like Dr Barrett 

[Frenchy7652]

cherokee_05

[bennythebearful]

I BELIEVE 911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB.. BUT YOU COME ACROSS AS REALLY THICK AND YOU HAVE A PAINFULLY ANNOYING VOICE.

[dbarron0]

Anthony J. Hall proves beyond any doubt that to be a professor in one of Canada's most mediocre educational institutes requires no intelligence whatsoever.

[urcritic]

You are an idiot. Quoting the high number of people who believe it was an inside job as an argument for it, is bad science and a bad argument. Just because a large amount of people believe something, does not mean it is true - for instance around 60% of Americans don't accept evolution.

[whisperjet1999]

As for the previous statement "Several academics, many more prominent than Shermer, have disproved this" - I haven't seen or read them. Yes, I've witnessed an academic or two that was "dismissive" or evasive of the evidence, like Noam Chomsky. But I have yet to see or read one that "disproves" anything of the research performed by 9/11 Truth scholars. Defenders of the official conspiracy have been debated to the nines, and have been shown to be deeply flawed in their analysis.

[dudemar123]

You made your case well.

[zakiechan]

If his title on a website is a "serious matter", I think you have your priorities bass ackwards. It's also completely ad hom, as it is in no way relevant to your argument. It's pretty clear you are just trying to discredit your opponent any way you can, and it makes you look that much more desperate. Try using calm, dispassionate, clearly articulated arguments instead.

[Fuliginosus]

This is great work. I admire you for pursuing this issue.

[InnerSmile72]

When you realize that you're just another cult are you going to go back and apologize to the internet, take down these videos, make some new ones explaining how you were fooled by cranks and spend as much time teaching people critical thinking as you did spreading crank ideas? I certainly hope so.

[banarelo]

"Globalization studies". yep.

The tin-foil hat people never to be involved in any scientific discipline.Wonder why :)))

[batner]

Muslims want us all dead or converted to Islam.

Denying the facts is stupid.

A. Known and well trained Muslim commandos boarded the planes.

B. All planes with Muslim Commandos crashed. Killing thousands.

C. Bin-Laden Takes responsibility.

D. America is no better off with all its conquest.

In your face pseudo-academy! Reality bites :-)

Next time you want to categorise something as "truth" don't poll people. Bring facts.

[RedlineMMA]

Fail



[enlightenthemass]

Typically people like Shermer treat dessention and "conspiracy" as mentally disturbed. Rather than listening and considering other points they ridicule and avoid debate at all costs. If the majority of the US wants a reinvestigation, THERE SHOULD BE ONE. THE PEOPLE HAVE THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY. After all this isn't the first time there has been a false flag attack. Look up USS Maine and now thanks to wikileaks, the gulf of tonkin lie.

[raprockprof]

To Hemmlock 1947. Wrong. Anthony J. Hall wrote no such paper. Why not do your homework rather than spout disinformation.

[thevampirefrog06]

The thing is, Shermer himself doesn't mind this video. In fact, he told the readers of Scientific American to go look it up. I think that shows how damaging he thinks you guys are to his reputation.

[danp5648]

I believe 9/11 was a complete war game which started in the 1994 -1996 time frame. I have researched all of NIST foia releases and found a never before plane in back of the burning North Tower. Review my youtube account for more information.

[KonradT4]

The more you say, the more you reinforce the point Shermer is making.

Shermer is encouraging critical and rational analysis. Skepticism means looking for evidence to substantiate belief. It does not mean looking for complex patterns and imaginative theories to explain a series of events.

By the way, with a university education you should know basic grammar - including the difference between the nominative "I" and dative "me".

[blackswan13666]

Nice to see the Canadians let the mentally retarded become professors and get graduate degrees. Hey asshole-Become a dermatologist and fix that fucked up face. Yep personal attack. Your theories are not worth anyones time. Grow up and get a job you fucking nitwit.

[hippiegrinder]

@blackswan13666 I have heard that Hall actually has a wife and son. I wonder if he has shown them this video, and whether they're proud of him for acting like a jackass in public. And whether they approve of his relationship with Blakeney.

[blackswan13666]

@hippiegrinder The shame of this is I have no use and trust the government about as much as these two, but acting like a damned fool and being stupid does not help.

[blackswan13666]

@hippiegrinder The shame of this is I have no use and trust the government about as much as these two, but acting like a damned fool and being stupid does not help.

[Humantidote]

For Hall and Blackheads...I mean Blakeney!

Here it comes, here it comes

Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown!!

[raprockprof]

The stuff of hippiegrinders defense of the 9/11 lies and the 9/11 liars could not be more descriptive of the quality of Michael Shermer's pseudo-skeptical flock.

[hippiegrinder]

@raprockprof "I don't believe Shermer, I believe Hall and Blakeney." Good for you. Sounds like you'll fit right in with lunatic professors and meth-addicted grad students (you *do* know that Blakeney's fucked up complexion is consistent with methamphetamine use, right?)

[DarwinsChihuahua]

Yeah, at least one fourth.

[nekopheliac]

All these people attacking Josh are idiotic at best and likely degenerates.

Hey how's that for ad homonym?

Seriously, the comment section is just being used to deflect the video.

If you actually listen to Shemer speak on ANY subject, ANY AT ALL you will find out that he is expert of none and barely grasps most simple principles. It is like listening to someone who's tried to memorize what he read on the back of a cereal box and now has the gall to try to 'inform' people about what he's read.

[hippiegrinder]

@nekopheliac Not true. Shermer is a respected scientist. Hall, on the other hand, is an obese and deranged psychopath, and Blakeney is just a pasty-faced little cunt from Surrey whose one and only talent is drinking Professor Hall's sperm.

The reason Blakeney attends Lethbridge in the first place is that his parents could not afford to send him to a real school. By the way, it's "ad hominem", you fucking idiots. "Homonym" is a word that sounds like another word. Stupid fucking Britons.

[Koog1e]

@nekopheliac "If you actually listen to Michael Shermer speak on ANY subject, ANY AT ALL you will find out that he is expert of none and barely grasps most simple principles. It is like listening to someone who's tried to memorize what he read on the back of a cereal box & now has the gall to try to 'inform' people about what he's read."-Agreed, plus the level of intelligence of these morally inept pseudo intellectual/skeptic posers defending him, seemingly resemble that of criminal sociopaths.

[Humantidote]

Exposure is on the way Josh!

I want you to realize that!

Same for you Dr. Hall!

After all it is Christmas time!

The season of giving!

[HerrCron]

This is some butthurt whining. Man up, cupcake.

[yumyumsryummy]

I'm still waiting for the wikileak on 9/11.

[yumyumsryummy]

I case someone can't tell, I was being sarcastic.

[Humantidote]

So raprockprof? Will you continue to claim a position that requires no proof besides doubt in the official story, or commit to the bomb theory or other hypothesis, and begin testing it with available evidence? Go with the first position and repeatedly reject explanations till you get an acceptable one? Or go with the latter and see if explosives or other explanation gain merit with legitimate proof?

Or is there a third option you have, or want to invent?

This is the entry point for your quest!

[raprockprof]

"just people united by the doubt that the story produced by the gov about the sept attacks is accurate" OK you could say that.

In my view it goes beyond doubting the official conspiracy. It is more like certainty that we have been fed lies on a very important subject and that the lies and crimes of 9/11 are too significant not to address with urgency. Of course we are lied to all the time on so many key subjects. Truthers draw the line, however, at the official 9/11 myth.

[MrRadio414]

My theory is that the government decided to blow up the north tower, deciding that only one WTC building was needed. To avoid public riots, rallies, or protests, the government decided to secretly fly a drone disguised as a passenger plane into the skyscraper.

In a comepletely unrelated plot, the south tower was blown up by actual terrorists.

Does this make me a "9/11 Truther?"

[raprockprof]

Humantidote. "The problem is that morons keep assuming that all those who question the official 9/11 story are siding with the '9/11 Truth' group's version." There is no such thing as "9/11 Truth group's [sic] version." No one can claim to have complete 9/11 truth with so much of the evidence under lock and key. There is the quest for 9/11 truth and the entry point of this quest is the recognition that virtually every aspect of the official conspiracy theory does cannot stand up to scrutiny.

[Humantidote]

@raprockprof Okay, let's go with what you say, that there is no formal cohesive group, just people united by the doubt that the story produced by the gov about the sept attacks is accurate, and in the "quest for 9/11 truth...entry point...is the recognition...the official conspiracy theory does not stand up to scrutiny" . This means that the collection of doubters is unified in the hypothesis that gov story not the right one, for whatever reason, be it inside job or other group, or whatever!

[Humantidote]

@raprockprof Part 2: So you now use your logic to test your hypothesis. In order to do that, you have to say what the story could be, or may be, or really is, in order for you to say that the gov's is not! Correct? So instead of involving too much in this experiment for truth, let's isolate just one of the towers, and we can pick any, so let's take 7 for the test! Fair enough? Truth position says fire no good, fire bad, not make 7 fall. Gov does test that says fire did do it! So if not, what?

[Humantidote]

@raprockprof Part 3: so some doubters say "bomb" or something, but not fire, can't happen! Just because it hasn't before, does not mean it can't. Insurance companies do not give u free ins or say not needed anymore if you get 10,20 or more years w/o an accdnt, or housefire etc! EVEN IF somebody FOUND a leftover BOMB in the 7 debris, it does NOT mean u can skip testing hyp that the bomb did it, unless you ALREADY had that hyp and the bomb you found UPHELD it! You can go with that but you say no.

[Humantidote]

@raprockprof Part 4: So if you still adhere to "not fire" because gov story incorrect, you have to come up with some hypothesis to confirm. Otherwise, you stay in that circle until you choose the bomb hypothesis or something else. Because if you don't pick one to go with, the gov can keep giving new explanations until you say yes, that's what it was. And if you don't wish to bite on the bomb and sink your teeth into that theory, you will have to let the gov or someone else come up with .....

[Humantidote]

@raprockprof Part 5 .......with new suggestions until you find one that makes sense or you say is truth! And that is not scientific logic or process when you have something where the only answer you accept is the one you want to be true. For that to work, you have to pick your hypothesis and then confirm it by putting the facts to the test and see what is supportive!

So you have invented a convenient logic to say the fallibility of gov story is proof of cover-up or anything u wish to be true!!

[IconicFiber]

I hate it when i accidently stumble onto a video made by retards. Go win yourself a darwin award please.

[hippiegrinder]

@IconicFiber Yes, I'm still waiting for this Joshua fellow to explain what sort of "research project" involves shouting at people and making videos that promote irrational theories. Lethbridge must be a school for retarded kids.

[magprob]

Amazing job by Joshua Blakeney and Anthony J. Hall. In this world, anything is possible. Only those that are stuck in the box can't see that.

Shermer is just another wing in the huge propaganda institute.

Thank you for bringing the truth out into the open. I have often wondered what motivated Shermer. Well, now we know.

[zezt]

LOL right ON! You really have exposed that Shermer. A liar, and yet he purports to tell the 'truth'? like yeahhhh!

HOW can people be so dumb to believe the absurd offical story of 9/11. It is SO full of holes that we can assume they did this on purpose to dvide and control the inevitable groups that would see through this massive crime.

EVEN people in Intelligence who know how Intelligence people worlk have said its a fukin inside bob, and yet you still got these people in denial. Very sad!!

[caldous22]

The best thing people can do is put in official complaints at the University for Hall and Blakeney's behaviour. Blakeney and Hall are just constantly screaming at guest speakers (Shermer and now Mansbridge and others before that as well at the library) who often have little to nothing to do with 9/11. If this behaviour isn't stopped, the University will get a deserved reputation for idiocy and lose the ability to get decent guests.

[brownph99]

@Globalization1492 I'm not a big fan of Shermer, but you really should check things out more. If you had checked tthoroughly you would have found the press release from CGU indicating he would be teaching a course on economics in 2007.

This does certainly qualify him with the label "adjunct professor". If he is no longer teaching classes than no it doesn't. At worst this is a misunderstanding and a point requiring clarification, not the deceptive evil intent you're making it out to be.

[voivod]

You guys are nutcases. 

[Tressco]

OUTSTANDING PIECE OF REAL JOURNALISM!!!

Most excellent upload!!

Kudos!

Seems, in his nervousness and/or adrenaline rush he explained himself a little bit too much in the reply!

Pwned, sucker!!!

[jimcaerleon]

@Tressco "Real journalism"? Hardly. It's a propaganda piece, pure and simple, using selective editing and specific framing to make its biased point. Ironic that the poster uses the same propagandistic techniques he criticizes others for using.

[ZapruderJr]

@jimcaerleon

blah blah blah. Is Shermer an Adjunct Professor of Economics or not?

[jimcaerleon]

@ZapruderJr "blah blah blah"? Piss off.

[hippiegrinder]

Anthony J. Hall is clearly mentally ill. I hope somebody investigates why he's spending so much time with an impressionable kid who's young enough to be his student.

[Globalization1492]

Very ad homonym. You can't address the arguments Hall advances so you diagnose him as mentally ill. FYI - I am the "impressionable kid" who you refer to and I AM HIS STUDENT. Profs and students often collaborate on research projects. I am researching 9/11 and when Shermer came to my university to speak I obviously wanted to see one of the only "academics" who defends the official conspiracy theory and was shocked how unscholarly and poorly researched his presentation was.

[hippiegrinder]

@Globalization1492 I could address Professor Hall's arguments all day long, but it would mostly go over his head. He's a 9/11 Truther and therefore not receptive to facts or logic. The plain fact is that mentally healthy adults do not engage in the sort of loudmouthed "activism" that you and Professor Hall engaged in. I can understand it coming from a naive kid at university, but from a grown man? An absolute disgrace. Don't hitch your star to this man, he may be headed the way of Steven Jones.

[fat666a]

@Globalization1492 yes, hippiegrinder's comment is odd - it's normal for professors and graduate students to socialize in and out of class.

Dr. Shermer however is one of the MANY academics who have disproved 911 theories. Very few academics believe 911 was a conspiracy. Several academics, many more prominent than Shermer, have disproved this. The ratio of academics who believe that 911 was a conspiracy is about the same as those that disagree with global warming - the clear minority.

[hippiegrinder]

@fat666a Socializing with a student is one thing. Encouraging a student to attend a lecture by a globally respected scientist, then attempt to shout him down with long-discredited theories, then proudly post video of the incident? That's something else altogether. And now this pathetic attempt to discredit Shermer by searching for outdated web pages. This behavior can only be described as irrational; what possible explanation can there be except mental illness?

[Globalization1492]

With global warming there are hundreds of professors lining up to defend the conventional wisdom. How many profs are willing to defend the official conspiracy theory about 9/11? Even the people who wrote the 9/11 Commission Report say we need a new investigation. So there is a big chasm between the issue of global warming and the issue of 9/11. You're doing what Shermer did, conflating different groups of people and pretending they have the same traits and patterns when in fact they do not.

[caldous22]

@Globalization1492

You're right. He's definitely wrong to include people who disagree with global warming along with the psychopath conspiracy theorists that foam at the mouth and can't actually debate anyone, choosing instead to be childish attention seekers by screaming statements and rhetorical questions at lecturers in different studies and without waiting or listening to answer declare 'victory'.

[Humantidote]

@Globalization1492 The writers of the Comm Report suggest a new report but not because of inside job theories!!

Many professionals support the official accounts. They just don't make money defending it, as opposed to the truther experts!

It sure must be convenient for you to maintain your nonspecific viewpoint regarding 9/11 isn't it Josh?

That way you can weasel out of any argument just by saying you don't necessarily believe this part or that claim.

[parasitesarefunny]

@fat666a

You dont even know what a "Conspiracy" is. The Official US Governments version is an "Arab Conspiracy Theory". Try to learn what words mean before you speak.  You ignorance is revealing from the very beginning.

9/11 was most definitely a professional demolition with airplanes just used as diversion for DUPES to be suckered with. No different than what magicians do with "slight of hand" tricks - watch this hand (airplanes) while I do something else with my other hand (demolition)

[MyMomSaysImSmart]

@Globalization1492 I find it gleefully ironic that you accuse hippiegrinder of an ad homonym comment, when the majority of your video was an ad homonym attack on Shermer. Hypocrisy doesn't lend itself well to believability.

[willywonka9901]

@Globalization1492 Uh, there's really no need to address his 'arguments' when he thinks David Ray Griffin is an authority on 9/11. That guy is an absolute fucking joke. Same with you two. The vast majority of academics support the official story, along with every single reputable scientific and technical institution in the country. Learn some basic science and logic because you clearly are very deficient in both disciplines.

[checkitb4uwreckit1]

@Globalization1492 Why do you object to "Holocaust denial" i.e. Revisionism? The Holocaust™ story is just as fraudulent as the 911 official story, if not more so. Have you done any research into it?

The Holocaust™ was invented to provide the Zionist Jews with massive PR ammunition to steal Palestine from the Arabs, extort billions of dollars from Germany in "reparations" to finance their newly founded terrorist state in the middle-east, and to put down all future criticism of Jewish behavior.

[l88a]

@hippieswindler

Don't you have any other "arguments" than smearing your opponents? Very poor performance indeed.

[hippiegrinder]

@l88a As I mentioned to young Joshua a moment ago, arguments are mostly irrelevant when dealing with 9/11 Truthers. Professor Hall's actions and words speak very clearly. He's crazy. There is no harm in calling a crazy person crazy.

[AIR9]

@hippiegrinder Well, It's obvious that they are having a homosexual relationship. I know that they would officially deny this, but they are just trying to cover it up.

[hippiegrinder]

@AIR9 I agree. Blakeney and Hall's romantic relationship is an open secret at Lethbridge these days anyway, from what I hear. They should just stop being ashamed and admit it.

[ScottSommers]

@hippiegrinder It's not fair to make comments like this. After all, Hall is supposed to be an academic leader. But you do have to wonder what he thinks he's accomplishing with this. Associating himself with this stuff is almost certainly going to doom Blakeney to the unemployment lines.

[Qwerti1100]

Perhaps this is just semantics, but in just that misrepresentation of a quote you show that you are willing to twist facts to support your opinion. You claim that it is Shermer who creates a "vigilante atmosphere" yet it is you and your professor who begin shouting and interrupting Shermer and other people their to discuss. Your hostility stymied the flow of ideas.

[Qwerti1100]

means "(the continuing shouting is) the same thing with the holocaust deniers". He's not comparing logic or beliefs, but rather how you choose to go about sharing your beliefs, which, in this case, does indeed consist of shouting. As well, you misquote him again in that he's read ALL of David Ray Griffins book with, "I've read David Ray Griffin's books. I've read all of them" when he actually said "I've read David Ray Griffin's books. I've read all of the literature".

[Qwerti1100]

How was it ever even implied that 9/11 supporters = holocaust deniers? In the video you have compiled for us, which in itself is completely misleading and selective, you can't even fabricate evidence where Shermer says anything of the sort. He clearly say, "...they'll just continue with the shouting, that's the the thing that bothers me. It's the same thing with the holocaust deniers". You choose to falsely quote him with, "(9/11 skeptics) same thing as the holocaust providers" when clearly

[juice797]

Michael Shermer hates religion, so he gobbles up the muslim boxcutter conspiracy with a furor. The irony is that you can read his book, "How We Believe", to understand how he believes the official, magical, unphysical story of 9/11.

[jimcaerleon]

@juice797 Shermer doesn't 'hate' religion; what tosh. He says that there is no evidence to substantiate the claims of religion, and he's right.

[jimcaerleon]

I particularly like the selective editing of Shermer's response ("I've read David Ray Griffin's book. I've read all the 9/11 literature..") to cut off after "all", so you can make it sound like he said he's read all of Griffin's books. Nicely done!

I also love the claim that Shermer created a "vigilante atmosphere." Totally ridiculous. Plus the claim that said 'atmosphere' shut down the flow of ideas. This was a Q and A session in a public lecture, not a platform to shout at the speaker.

[RepublicConstitution]

Shermer is a lying piece of trash just like Randi. The self-professed "Skeptics" and "Debunkers" only support every single "official" belief that exists and never attempt to be skeptical of authorities or rulers. They support the system and they support wars as a result, they support the evisceration of our rights, and they love money more than anything else.

[fat666a]

@RepublicConstitution aren't you doing the same thing that you are alleging the skeptics do? James Randi had his life threatened when he debunked shaman/mafia rings in foreign countries that took peoples' life savings in return for cancer cures that did not work. He debunked Peter Popoff who fooled the elderly into throwing away prescription medications. He takes claims, test them and provides the methodology and results so you can critique and retest them for yourself - what more do you want?

[jaminunit]

Great video keep it up.

[turnpikesteven]

pls post his responses in entirety, not cherry-picked sentences

[turnpikesteven]

wow, you're a fucking nutjob

those stats make no sense based on where the politics and followers are now. Tea Party advocates etc. are not pushing that, because it was their govt that would be in charge at the time. That would just throw a huge mind f@ck at everything.

[turnpikesteven]

wow, you're a fucking nutjob

[matsutakneatche]

Great job!

[hatchedarea]

This isn't enough, you have to get the faculty member in your university reprimanded for their own behaviour.

[Globalization1492]

fat666 obviously doesn't know the difference between a Senior Research Fellow i.e. "here's a library card and a handful of other privileges" and an Adjunct Professor of Economics. The link he provided does not justify Dr. Shermer calling himself Adjunct Professor of Economics. The hint that I am correct is that Shermer himself has now changed all his online biographies deleting "of Economics". Check the photos of his website before and after which can be found online.

[fat666a]

His credentials are on the Claremont Graduate University site under the "Other SPE Faculty Appointments". This discussion is a positive feedback loop of stupid - no one did a google search before agreeing and adding their own bit of stupid to the thread.

Michael stated that holocaust deniers and 911 conspiracy folks share the same trait - they don't change their beliefs dispite evidence to the contrary - he did not acuse you of being one.

[Globalization1492]

fat666 obviously doesn't know the difference between a Senior Research Fellow i.e. "here's a library card and a handful of other privileges" and an Adjunct Professor of Economics. The link he provided does not justify Dr. Shermer calling himself Adjunct Professor of Economics. The hint that I am correct is that Shermer himself has now changed all his online biographies deleting "of Economics". Check the photos of his website before and after which can be found online.

[fat666a]

Fair enough, he is not listed as adjunct professor. But the video implies that he has no affiliation with the university and that is clearly not true. If he had no affiliation with the university, this argument would be more potent. This does not discredit his work or prove his is part of the Illuminati - whatever that is. This video turns a mountain into a molehill and many undecided folks may assume the 911 folks take the same approach with alleged 911 evidence.

[fat666a]

Fair enough, he is not listed as adjunct professor. But the video implies that he has no affiliation with the university and that is clearly not true. If he had no affiliation with the university, this argument would be more potent. This does not discredit his work or prove his is part of the Illuminati - whatever that is. This video turns a mountain into a molehill and many undecided folks may assume the 911 folks take the same approach with alleged 911 evidence.

[fat666a]

@Globalization1492 Fair enough, he is not listed as adjunct professor. But the video implies that he has no affiliation with the university and that is clearly not true. If he had no affiliation with the university, this argument would be more potent. This does not discredit his work or prove his is part of the Illuminati - whatever that is. This video turns a mountain into a molehill and many undecided folks may assume the 911 folks take the same approach with alleged 911 evidence.

[MyMomSaysImSmart]

@Globalization1492 You seem to be confusing the holding of an Academic position with the holding of reason and intelligence. This is quite the assumption. Having read hundreds of his articles, Shermer's credentials are of little concern to me. Although I certainly don't agree with everything he believes (actually, I probably disagree with most of what he 'believes'), he is an undeniably brilliant individual. Where he works really has no bearing on this.

[okmasko]

@Globalization1492 where can I find those photos of his website before and after this video was released?

[matsutakneatche]

@fat666a same difference bud-thats like saying that anyone that disagrees or questions an official story, an establishment story- dialogue- shares the same traits as holocaust deniers(which is using an already stigmatized phrase to anyone who questions the holocaust official story).There is a huge cover up- Shermer IS ridiculously far removed from critical thinking, and this asswipe Shermer needs to be investigated, end of story.

[fat666a]

@matsutakneatche. I don't know what “same difference” means. Holocaust deniers and 911 folks share the same trait, they don't change beliefs despite evidence to the contrary. This video is a great example of folks with a will to believe – Dr. Shermer disagrees with their claims, so they exaggerate their claims to discredit him. 911 questions are great, I hope every angle gets addressed. But when 911 folks attack and slander people who don't agree with them, it makes their case less credible.

[Northern5tar]

God I loathe the self proclaimed sceptics who are do nothing but defend the official line and ridicule and smear dissent.

Good expose on the Michael Shermer snake-oil salesman. As for who's funding him? My guess would be he's paid in shekels.

[Bironcorp]

good work

[DjBall]

EXPOSED !

nice work exposing that bootlicking fraud Shermer

[investigar11s]

very interesting , keep up the good work!

[bimbo99]

He's a zio-shill - one of the many PR people trying to perpetuate the myths we've been sold and cover criminal Zionist actions with bland baseless orthodoxy to pacify the unthinking. This is good work, please continue.

[partridgecaravan]

His parents wanted him to be a professor and he might have taken a lot of money as tution fees during his supposed study in a supposed university and then his parents dream came true!! shermer became a professor in his imagination . Now he needs success and he is trying all he can do to be a real professor. I believe that university database will update him as a professor soon saying that he was under cover with a fake name for national security. Look how some of the listeners cheered him up!!

[MissingTrillions]

Michael Shermer: professor of junk, chronic liar

[chromelung66]

What is really disturbing is this guy is fully illuminati funded. HE actually was a speaker at TED in 2002. Ironic how the topic of his presentation was the same. "Why People Believe Weird Things". This man is a traitor to humanity. I feel sorry for any relatives of his that have this piece of human garbage as a father/husband/son/uncle/cousi­n.

[Daruka2009]

@chromelung66

he is another charasmatic flim flam man that fucking idiot Americans will believe.

There must be a way to do some black ops on these vermin and fuck them up good.

[sore280]

spineless turd

[Daruka2009]

Schermer is a fucking zionazi bastard, no doubt in my mind.

Just another fucking piece of shit, trying to dissuade people away.

Love to meet that motherfucking alone in a dark alley.

[EvanRavitz]

Great. Now put a reference to this on his Wikipedia page. I'd mention he uses ad hominems against 9/11 truthers but shows no skepticism about the govt. 9/11 story.

[nekopheliac]

I had really hoped this would be the outcome of this disaster. Brilliant work gentlemen.

peace,

[SeekingLight1]

superb expose.

[jpksculpt1]

Thank you, Gentlemen.

[DenisRancourt]

brilliant video!

the best kind of academic activism.