5. Why People Believe Weird Things | Dr Michael Shermer

Bullaki Science Podcast

Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic. In this podcast we discuss the Pentagon UFO videos, the documentary “Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation”, the UFO entertainment business, “Mirage Man”, ancient civilizations, water memory and homeopathy, the paranormal, cold fusion, and quantum quackery and mysticism.
The video podcast is available here: https://youtu.be/p8ls1oSQvc0
His new book “Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist” is available now https://amzn.to/32PPZMh. During this podcast we discussed topics included in his two other books “Why People Believe Weird Things” (https://amzn.to/35219jI) and “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye” (https://amzn.to/3lJTxbK). Michael’s full list of articles and books is available here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...
You can find his course “Skepticism 101: How to Think like a Scientist” here: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/cours...
Find out more: www.skeptics.com and https://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelS....

Chapters

1. UFOs: where is the evidence? (00:00:00)

2. New York Times UFO articles (00:05:02)

3. Luis Elizondo and To The Stars (00:08:38)

4. Bob Lazar and Element 115 (00:15:59)

5. Linda Howe’s Alien Metal (00:30:05)

6. Ancient Civilizations (and Aliens) (00:33:29)

7. Steven Greer: Aliens + Transcendental Meditation (00:47:17)

8. The Fascination of the West with Eastern Religions (00:49:48)

9. Water memory and homeopathy (00:54:02)

10. The paranormal (00:56:18)

11. Relativism (01:01:37)

12. Cold Fusion, E-Cat (01:02:35)

13. Quantum Mysticism (01:04:08)

14. Funding Research on Weird Things (01:06:13)