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#9 Michael Shermer: Heavens on Earth, Protopia and Pseudoscience Dr. Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic.
He’s also the author of 19 books, including Why People Believe Weird Things; The Science of Good and Evil; Why Darwin Matters; The Believing Brain; and, more recently, Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia.
Here, we talk about his latest book, Heavens on Earth; the afterlife, immortality and utopia; terror management theory; social experiments on political utopias; scientific utopias; the concept of protopia; progress; morality; skepticism; pseudoscience and how to combat it.
Skeptic website: https://www.skeptic.com/
Heavens on Earth European version: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heavens-Earth-Scientific-Afterlife-Immortality/dp/1472140613
Heavens on Earth original version: https://www.amazon.com/Heavens-Earth-Scientific-Afterlife-Immortality/dp/1627798579
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More books by Dr. Shermer and others at Skeptic: https://shop.skeptic.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=SS&Category_Code=B
Dr. Shermer’s Twitter handle: @michaelshermer
Link to podcast version (Anchor): https://tinyurl.com/y6nhw3vh
