#361 - Michael Shermer

The interview starts at 23:30   Dr. Michael Shermer joins us for a chat about the media landscape, free speech and censorship. He is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author and host of the Science Salon Podcast.    We also chat about Coddling of the American Mind, the unfreedom of the press, the cultural immune system, replication crisis in social psychology, his podcast and synchronicity.   https://michaelshermer.com/   https://www.skeptic.com/podcasts/science-salon/    In the intro we chat about Darren’s trip to the medicine wheel and Graham read’s some listener emails and some quotes from An end to Upside Down Thinking.   See the links below for stuff we chatted about during the show and the intro:   https://heterodoxacademy.org/coddling-of-the-american-mind/    https://www.anendtoupsidedownthinking.com/book-bonuses    https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Unfreedom-of-the-Press/Mark-R-Levin/9781476773094    Please help support the show…. Grimerica’s DoBeDoBeDo List: Grimerica is fully and solely listener supported. We adhere to the Value for Value model.  0 ads, 0 sponsorships, 0 breaks, 0 portals and links to corporate websites… just many hours of unlimited content for free. Thanks for listening!!   https://www.13questionspodcast.com/ Our New Podcast - 13 Questions   Join the chat / hangout with a bunch of fellow Grimerican’s  www.grimerica.ca/chats   1-403-702-6083Call and leave a voice mail or send us a text   Support the show directly http://www.grimerica.ca/support https://www.patreon.com/grimerica     GrimericaFM  https://s2.radio.co/s053ed3122/listen Check out our next trip/conference/meetup - Contact at the Cabin   Leave a review on iTunes and/or Stitcher https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-grimerica-show/id653314424?mt=2# http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-grimerica-show    Sign up for our newsletter http://www.grimerica.ca/news Leave a comment, ideas and guest/topic suggestions under any episode or blog http://www.grimerica.ca/   SPAM Graham = and send him your synchronicities, feedback, strange experiences and psychedelic trip reports!! [email protected] InstaGRAM  https://www.instagram.com/the_grimerica_show_podcast/    Tweet Darren https://twitter.com/Grimerica   Connect through other platforms: https://www.reddit.com/r/grimerica/  https://gab.ai/Grimerica    Purchase swag, with partial proceeds donated to the show www.grimerica.ca/swag Send us a postcard or letter http://www.grimerica.ca/contact/ Thanks to Wayne Darnell for help with the website. http://www.darnelldigitalink.com/ http://www.lostbreadcomic.com/ link to Napolean Duheme's site  Felix’s Site sirfelix.bandcamp.com   Christmas Carol Video   MUSIC Grimerica Theme - Lock & Key   A Year - Broke For Free Free Thinkers (Don’t get comfortable) - Sir Felix Ortega II