The Work of Michael Shermer » Scientific American

January 2019: In his 214th consecutive and final ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer reflects on what science brings to the human project.

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/steins-law-and-sciences-mission/

In his December 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American Michael Shermer discusses how to avert a looming crisis among today’s youth.

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/kids-these-days-how-to-avert-looming-crisis/

In his November 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American Michael Shermer explains the allegedly spooky coincidences associated with some famous films like Poltergeist, The Exorcist, The ...

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/fallacy-of-excluded-exceptions/

In his October 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American Michael Shermer considers why suicide is a leading cause of death in the US.

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/why-do-people-die-by-suicide/

In his September 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American Michael Shermer avers that when women are educated and have access to birth-control technologies, pregnancies and, eventually, a...

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/abortion-facts/

In his August 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer discusses the limitations of personal genome service testing.

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/23-and-we-limitations-of-personal-genome-service-testing/

In his July 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer ponders how, for millennia, the greatest minds of our species have grappled to gain purchase on the vertiginous onto...

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/final-mysterians-consciousness-free-will-god/

In his June 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer discusses Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s idea that Google searches may act as a “digital truth...

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/soul-searching/

In his May 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer discusses utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, and natural-rights theory.

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/you-kant-be-serious-utilitarianism/

In his April 2018 ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer discusses the rise of the “nones”—people who check the box for “none” on surveys of religious affiliation...

https://michaelshermer.com/sciam-columns/silent-no-more-rise-of-atheists/