Submission statement: Link is interview of Jesse Michels debating plausibility of UFOs with famous skeptic Michael Shermer. In this interview, Shermer lays out intellectually disingenuous standards of evidence which he helps adopt across media and academia through his Skeptic magazine- poisoning honest academic inquiry into the topic. Shermer is the posterboy for everything wrong with the skeptic movement- and yes, I'm calling it a movement because skepticism has become a religion of blind fa...

Avi Loeb's new "UAP Science Advisory Council" (the one announced alongside the White House / AARO / ODNI / FBI) now lists Michael Shermer — founder of Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society. This isn't "skeptics are bad." It's that Shermer has already publicly pre-judged the exact question the council exists to investigate, and has spent years mocking the witnesses it's supposed to evaluate. His own posts — all still up, all verifiable: A standing $1,000 public bet that alien disclosure wi...

Can we get a different skeptic for this advisory board who doesn't openly mock people like David Grusch here? This is not knowing how to read the room, @ProfAviLoeb? At least we can get him to take this embarrassing tweet down and issue a public apology to David. This simply can't stand. Be a skeptic, don't he an asshole. It's not that hard. [Quoted] "Damn. If only I had subscribed to SKEPTIC magazine." Time for a new t-shirt as Marshall Applewhite (Heaven's Gate) has been replaced by David G...

This past weekend my gf and I were at Barnes and Npble when I stumbled across this magazine. Has anyone else read this? The interview from James Fox was a good read. Lots of interesting takes - I recommend it if anyone is passing the magazine aisle

Speaking of empirical evidence, Michael Shermer sure $pends a lot of time tweeting about something he does not believe in. 💵 #uapx #MichaelShermer #SkepticSociety #SkepticMagazine https://t.co/5HGdJZjEvj https://t.co/HkUhTTDvTo [Quoted] The reason @DouthatNYT that the answer UFOlogists give you of “I can’t tell you” is because there is no alien tech. There’s a reason @dwpasulka is a scholar of religious studies. UFOlogy is a religion. There will NEVER be empirical evidence. https://t.co/8dTv...