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Michael Shermer on Charlie Rose on Pseudoscience, Part 2

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Michael Shermer discusses Carl Sagan, science, pseudoscience, and the paranormal on PBS's Charle Rose, during his book tour for Why People Believe Weird Things.

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  • Intelligent and very reasonable guy.

  • I applaud Michael Shermer efforts to help us gain a better understanding of our world thru science.

    And I share his rejection towards psychics, mind readers, miraculous healers and so.

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  • @carneyfex Atheism kills people?, Huh? How and why?

  • Agnosticism is the default type of atheism. Gnostic atheists believe that there is no god, where as agnostic atheists do not believe that there IS a god. The difference is one claims the non existence of something, where as the other simply rejects the claim that somethign DOES exist; a neutral standpoint.

  • Is it just me or is Shermer more of an atheist now?

  • I respect Michael Shermer's opinions and skeptical approach, but he says that an atheist saying "I have no belief in a god" usually entails anti-religion, anti-Christianity, antisemitism, etc.

    Based on what? I'm an atheist, because I have no belief in any theistic gods that I've learned about, not because I'm anti-Christian, antisemitic, or anti-religious, any more than I'm anti-witch, anti-leprechaun, or anti-ghost. On other subjects he says "Show me the evidence." As for gods, he tiptoes.

  • @Prolific85 This interview is at least 10 years old. Probably 98 or 99.

  • @SOAS007 i woulda been racked like a thousand times for the shit iv said

  • @BANGBANGBANGBBANG " tell its pre new atheist movement cuz hes being so careful not to offend religion " because "old aTheist movement" , if they spoke out, found themselves on the rack, or burn't at the stake.! religion can now, in some countries be given the ridicule it deserves.

  • 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously’ - A.C. Grayling

    =)

  • Did he say "militant" atheist?

    Why is it, for a Christian or Muslim to be "militant", they gotta kill people, but to be a "militant" atheist you have to question and reject religions/gods?

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