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Podcast #333: The Search for Truth

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By Michael Shermer Verified, Iona Italia Verified
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I’m your host this week, Iona Italia. My guest is Michael Shermer. Michael is a scholar, writer, and journalist. He is also the founder and publisher of Skeptic magazine and the host of the podcast, The Michael Shermer Show. He has an academic background in evolutionary psychology and taught critical thinking to university students for decades. He was also a monthly columnist for Scientific American for eighteen years.
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Why Free Will Isn't an Illusion

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By Michael Shermer Verified
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philosophy Neuroscience’s challenge to free will misses the point: consciousness and choice emerge from complex systems, not individual neurons. Photo by Joe Shields on Unsplash In 1985, the physiologist Benjamin Libet conducted a series of experiments that involved taking EEG readings of subjects’ brains engaged in a task that required them to press a button at random intervals whenever they felt like it during the session.
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I’ve reported on UFO sightings for decades — and come to this conclusion

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By Michael Shermer Verified
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I’ve reported on UFO sightings for decades — and come to this conclusion (washingtonpost.com) I’ve reported on UFO sightings for decades — and come to this conclusion By Michael Shermer 2026012912310200 On Jan. 13, Vermont legislator Troy Headrick (I) proposed creating a state task force that would get to the bottom of "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAPs, that appeared to be buzzing about U.S. military air bases.
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