Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.