Shermer Says: Debate Skills, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Autism, Vaccines, ANTIFA, Bari Weiss & CBS News

Hey everyone, it's Michael Shermer and it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show, but this is a new addition to our programming. This is going to be called Shermer says. These are solo commentaries on current events. And if things go according to plan, we'll be doing these once a week or so. Maybe more, maybe less, depending on travel and other

Commitments like getting the next issue of Skeptic magazine out, like uh here it is, just came out on science expertise and expertise in general, and why there's so little trust in that. As just a general commentary to get us started here on this very subject of why we're doing this, is that The media landscape has changed a lot since we started Skeptic magazine in 1992. You know, there were just all the major television networks, and if you had something to promote, you had to go on one of those uh news shows or talk shows, and there weren't that many of them, and uh there was virtually no online presence at all. All that's changed.

I find that Um, when we publish something or release it online digitally, it doesn't get as much traction as it used to for the length of time. That is to say, um, as a quarterly publication, you know, we could have weeks or months of debate about particular subjects that we've uh talked about in the magazine. or in my monthly column for Scientific American, which I wrote for 214 consecutive months, 18 years. And when one of those came out, um, it would generate debate and conversation for weeks.

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