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	<title>The Work of Michael Shermer</title>
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	<description>books, essays, columns, reviews, and multimedia clips of famed skeptic Michael Shermer</description>
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		<title>Pentagon Gunman a Conspiracy Theorist &amp; 9/11 Truther</title>
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	What’s the harm in believing nonsense? I get asked this all the time: “Oh come on Shermer, let people have their delusions, what’s the harm?”


	I have a laundry list of retorts to this challenge, from the value of living in a rational world that is based in reality to tales of people who have died [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/03/10/pentagon-gunman-conspiracy-theorist/</link>
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		<title>Pentagon Gunman a Conspiracy Theorist &amp; 9/11 Truther</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
	What’s the harm in believing nonsense? I get asked this all the time: “Oh come on Shermer, let people have their delusions, what’s the harm?”


	I have a laundry list of retorts to this challenge, from the value of living in a rational world that is based in reality to tales of people who have died [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/03/10/pentagon-gunman-conspiracy-theorist/</link>
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		<title>My Dinner with Bill (Gates that is)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it wasn’t exactly My Dinner with Andre—the classic 1981 filmed conversation between Wallace Shaun and Andre Gregory (directed by Louis Malle) that ranged across a diversity of existential topics—but listening to Bill Gates hold forth on matters of business, economics, finance, world health, education, and nutrition and physical fitness in a dinner arranged by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/23/dinner-with-bill-gates/</link>
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		<title>One one-thousand … two one-thousand …  3.8 trillion one-thousand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has unveiled his new budget for fiscal year 2011 at $3.8 trillion dollars. Staggeringly huge. Brobdingnagianly big. Almost inconceivable. Just how much is a trillion dollars? Here are some comparisons.
The brain consists of about a hundred billion neurons, which is about the same as the number of stars in the Milky Way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/09/one-one-thousand-two-one-thousand/</link>
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		<title>Cultivate Your Garden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How a lack of control leads to superstition  and what can be done about it

Imagine a time in your life when you felt out of control—anything from getting lost to losing a job. Now look at the Figure 1 on this page. What do you see? Such a scenario was presented to subjects in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/02/cultivate-your-garden/</link>
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		<title>Charles Darwin … the Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A review of Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin. Starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly. Jon Amiel Director, Jeremy Thomas Producer, John Collee writer. Recorded Picture Company with BBC Films and Ocean Pictures. Based on Randal Keynes’s book Annie’s Box. In general release January 22, 2010.

Creation is one of the most beautifully produced, artfully [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/01/26/charles-darwin-the-movie/</link>
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		<title>The Tarot Card Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Shermer fakes a psychic/tarot/astrology reading in this episode of Bill Nye&#8217;s show The Eyes of Nye.

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		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/01/the-tarot-card-reading/</link>
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		<title>In the Name of God: The Neuron Bomb of Terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing fuels religious extremism more than the belief that one has found the absolute moral truth. Islamic terrorism, for example, has gradually shifted from secular motives in the 1960s to religious motives today. A 2000 study by the state department that resulted in the publication Patterns of Global Terrorism, found that in 1980 there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/01/12/the-neuron-bomb-of-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>Kool-Aid Psychology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How optimism trumped realism in the positive-psychology movement

I am, by nature, an optimist. I almost always think things will turn out well, and even when they break I am confident that I can fix them. My optimism, however, has not always served me well. Twice I have been hit by cars while cycling— full-on, through-the-windshield [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/01/kool-aid-psychology/</link>
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		<title>9/11 Truthers Foiled Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey 9/11 Truthers, CNN is reporting that al Qaeda just took credit for the Northwest Airlines terrorist attack:
Be prepared to suffer because the killing is coming and we prepared you men who love death just as you love life and by God’s permission, we will come to you with more things that you have never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2009/12/29/911-truthers-foiled-again/</link>
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