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<title><![CDATA[Michael Shermer - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15718.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Shermer]]></description><category domain="15718">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Why Woke Failed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-woke-failed</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Shermer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The movement was based on flawed understandings of human nature.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gay Rights and the Moral Arc]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/gay-rights-and-the-moral-arc-119617.html?ml=m_t3_2h#.VZO_rvlVhBc</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Shermer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Fruit Loop. That'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s what we cyclists called the circuit training ride we did each week through Los Angeles'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' Griffith Park in the 1980s, and it wasn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a nod to the breakfast cereal.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Economists' Predictions Fail]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Shermer</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Cause and Effect: Explaining Random Violence]]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shermer-arizona-shooting-20110111,0,3409038.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Shermer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The news media once again scrambled this past week to find the deep  underlying causes of shocking events. We saw this impulse in the rush to  explain the tragic murder of six people at a shopping center in Tucson.  And we saw it in the rush of stories about mass die-offs of birds and ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Did Einstein Believe About God?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bigquestionsonline.com/columns/michael-shermer/einstein%E2%80%99s-god</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Shermer</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Albert Einstein famously opined, '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'God is cunning but He is not malicious.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' And: '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'God does not play dice.'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'  When asked his motivation for doing physics, Einstein replied: '&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';'I want  to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that  phenomenon, in the spectrum of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jonestown and 'Confirmation Bias']]></title>
							<link>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-shermer18-2008nov18,0,2806746.story</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Shermer</author>
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