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Skeptics

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Nick Gillespie and Skeptic Magazine's Michael Shermer on Postmodernism, Rationalism, and The Intellectual Dark Web

Tune in to Reason's livestream conversation between Gillespie and Shermer.

Zach Weissmueller | 12.21.2018 7:45 AM

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Libertarianism

Michael Shermer on Why Even Scientists, Transhumanists, and Atheists Want To Believe in Heaven: Podcast

One of the world's top skeptics of religion casts a cold eye on secular attempts to create utopia and immortality.

Nick Gillespie | 8.3.2018 2:20 PM

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Forensic science

Stossel: Junk Science Locks Up Innocent People

DNA testing reveals that long-used forensic methods are error-riddled.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 5.22.2018 11:45 AM

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Reasontv

Why Libertarians Should Want *More* Trust in Government

Paradoxically, government grows because of our lack of confidence in it.

Nick Gillespie and Todd Krainin | 8.28.2017 1:30 PM

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Science

Stunning Rejection of Scientific Values of Transparency and Skepticism at New England Journal of Medicine

Outside researchers might "even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited."

Ronald Bailey | 1.22.2016 11:38 AM

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Reasontv

Adam Ruins Everything's Adam Conover on Skepticism, the TSA, and Cultural Myths in the Information Age

Zach Weissmueller | 11.23.2015 12:10 PM

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Temperature Trends

Project Launched to Check Global Temperature Records

The Global Warming Policy Foundation calls for evidence for the validity of temperature records

Ronald Bailey | 4.27.2015 10:03 AM

Philosophy

WATCH: Reason and Science Make Us Moral—Michael Shermer on The Moral Arc

Zach Weissmueller | 1.20.2015 12:30 PM

Politics

Watch The Independents Halloween Spectacular Tonight at 9 p.m. ET!

Matt Welch | 10.31.2014 8:49 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: "I'm Skeptical," With Michael Shermer, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Andy Levy, Michael Malice, and More!

Matt Welch | 10.17.2014 6:11 PM

Culture

Penn Jillette Issues a Challenge to Bruce Springsteen: 'Let's see who gets laid first!'

Matt Welch | 8.1.2014 2:28 PM

Politics

Ronald Bailey Asks If Federal Climate Scientists Are Fudging U.S. Temperature Records

Reason Staff | 7.3.2014 1:30 PM

Culture

Assassins, Witches, Secret Societies, and Skepticism: Jesse Walker Discusses Conspiracy Theories With the National Capital Area Skeptics

A talk recorded in Bethesda on April 5.

Jesse Walker | 4.19.2014 2:15 PM

Science & Technology

Observed Rate of Global Warming Half of What the Models Predict

Ronald Bailey | 8.30.2013 12:32 PM

Policy

How the Skeptic Movement Bankrupted Power Balance Wristbands

Nick Gillespie | 8.22.2013 2:46 PM

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Draft U.N. Report on Man-Made Global Warming Leaked by Skeptic of Catastrophic Climate Change

Ronald Bailey | 12.14.2012 11:31 AM

Politics

Everyone Freaks Out About Two New Climate Change Studies

New reports on global temperature trends cause a predictable media uproar

Ronald Bailey | 7.31.2012 5:00 PM

Politics

Lukewarmers, Denialists, and Other Climate Change Skeptics

Impressions and reporting from the Sixth International Climate Change Conference

Ronald Bailey | 7.5.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Critique of Pure Skepticism

Brian Doherty | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Skeptics

Bringing UFOs Down to Earth

Armando Simón | 6.1.1982 12:00 PM

Skeptics

Paranormal Trickery

Jack Kirwan | 6.1.1981 12:00 PM

Skeptics

How Science Should Deal with Pseudoscience

Ignoring the cultists will not make them go away; scientists should devote time and effort to investigating the pseudoscientists' claims.

Armando Simón | 7.1.1978 12:00 PM

Skeptics

UFOs, Bent Spoons, and Alternate Realities

Can the scientific outlook survive in an increasingly pseudo-scientific age?

Robert Sheaffer | 8.1.1977 12:00 PM

Skeptics

None Dare Call It Witchcraft

Robert Sheaffer | 7.1.1977 12:00 PM

Skeptics

The Secret Life of Plants

Patricia Levy-Gleason | 9.1.1974 12:00 PM

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