The Michael Shermer Show

“author of a number of World War Two in the Pacific books including Black Snow Curtis Lemay, the fire bombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb”

“Rampage, MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila”

“Target Tokyo, Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenge Pearl Harbor”

“The war below the story of three submarines that battled Japan”

“The Attack on the Liberty, the untold story of Israel's deadly nineteen sixty seven assault on a U.S. spy ship”

“And co author with Jack Carr. targeted Beirut”

“His new book just came out. It's called Empire of Ashes. Truman, Hirohito, and the descent into total war”

“His book is called Flute And it's about th the role of luck in history”

“But he has a new book out. It's called Tempting Fate. A philosophical guide to risk Luck. And a meaningful life”

“I'm writing a book about luck. Well it's called Contingency”

“you know it has a it has a basis. It's in it's in Leviticus”

“The other one he gives is one where it doesn't work out, which is um Anakaranina”

“I talk about the Steve Jobs biography by I Isaac. Wal Walter Isaacs”

“writings, but Ethics is in the particular and that seems right to me”

“including, I think I've read most of these, Descartes Error emotion, reason, and the human brain”

“The feeling of what happens is of body and emotion and making of consciousness”

“feeling and knowing making minds conscious”

“The strange order of things, life, feeling, and the making of cultures”

“And looking for Spinoza, Joy, Sorrow, and the Femaling Brain”

“Elephants Weep, that famous book, you know, I thought, Yeah, of course”

“Here it is, the content of our character. I taught out of that book in nineteen ninety, Shelby. Nineteen ninety”

“He also wrote White guilt upon which the new documentary film by Eli is about that I'll introduce shortly”

“Also a bound man, shame and Shame how America's past sins have polarized our country”

“capturing a book. Bible, he said, flying off of the corner of the desk on its own”

“My guest today is Dr. Barry Markovsky his the new book here every day. Extraordinary A scientist ponders a lifetime of magical, bizarre. And paranormal experiences”

“My guest today is Dr. Barry Markovsky his the new book here every day. Extraordinary A scientist ponders a lifetime of magical, bizarre. And paranormal experiences”

“I think uh again, I I've used this example. I use it in my truth book of um Uh Neil Lewis example where the preacher tells the congregation there's a parking lot in the back of the church”

“I use it in my truth book of um Uh Neil Lewis example where the preacher tells the congregation there's a parking lot in the back of the church”

“Ken Miller, uh you know, the great microbiologist who Debunk the creationists uh intelligent design arguments about the eye and DNA and f bacterial flagellum and all that stuff. This is all nonsense. Then he writes this great book about it and then at the end the last chapter is about he's a Catholic”

“Then he writes this great book about it and then at the end the last chapter is about he's a Catholic. And he believes the whole thing, right”

“There's no real four brothers Karamazov in in Dostoevsky's novel”

“There's no real four brothers Karamazov in in Dostoevsky's novel”

“There's not really a middle earth in JR and J.R. Tolkien's uh Lord of the Rings”

“There's not really a middle earth in JR and J.R. Tolkien's uh Lord of the Rings”

“there's no train station nine and three quarters in in Harry Potter, you know”

“You know, that's what uh uh what's his name, Harry, um you know, the bullshit guy, um, the philosopher Uh wrote that book bullshit. D distorting it for a reason. The bullshitter doesn't care, right”

“what's his name, Harry, um you know, the bullshit guy, um, the philosopher Uh wrote that book bullshit. D distorting it for a reason”

“I mean, Oliver Sachs's books are uh about these, you know, these weird patients he had. Guy who mistook his wife for hat rack or whatever no missed the hat rack for his wife or whatever that was”

“I mean, Oliver Sachs's books are uh about these, you know, these weird patients he had. Guy who mistook his wife for hat rack or whatever no missed the hat rack for his wife or whatever that was”

“I met even Alexander in a green room once for a T V show. He wrote that book, Proof of Heaven. He had a um in a and near death experience when he was in a coma”

“I met even Alexander in a green room once for a T V show. He wrote that book, Proof of Heaven”

“David Charlos. whom I appreciate and I admire and I love him. I think we are the same age. And he wrote a book many years ago”

“This is what Huxley said when he read Darwin's book. How stupid of me to not have thought of that”

“You know him from his uh best selling books, Guns, Germs, and Steel, which has sold over seven million copies”

“Collapse, The Third chimpanzee, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval”

“Collapse, The Third chimpanzee, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval”

“Collapse, The Third chimpanzee, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval”

“Collapse, The Third chimpanzee, The World Until Yesterday, and Upheaval”

“I wrote one of my Scientific American columns on that after I read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, which was a great book”

“and in his biography, Mein Kampf, he wrote about it”

“I just read James Scott's um uh great book. uh Hirohito Truman and the destruction of Japan. Empire of Ashes, it's called”

“His new book is uh Love Thy Stranger”

“You do have a discussion of Rachel Carlson Carson and her silent spring and the influence of of great minds”

“including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case closed. Lee Harvey Oswald in The Assassination of JFK, still one of my favorite books”

“His 2015 book, God's Bankers, a 200 year history of the finances of the Vatican, was an acclaimed New York Times bestseller”

“His other books include Killing the Dream, James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr”

“Secrets of the Kingdom, The Inside Story of the Saudi U.S. Connection”

“Mangala, The Complete Story”

“Hitler's children, sons and daughters of leaders of the Third Reich, talk about themselves and their fathers”

“warlords of crime, Chinese secret societies, the new mafia”

“and relevant here, Why America Slept, the Failure to Prevent 911”

“He's the author of Over 130 articles as well as a moral psychology the book Moral Psychology, and four books with Oxford University Press”

“Moral character in empirical theory”

“Character and moral psychology”

“The character gap. How good are we”

“It's called The Honesty Crisis Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest world”

“You know, Plato's Republican We ha yeah, w in the in the Republic Book One We have Glaucana Adamantis”

“Richard Rangham's work on self dem”

“whether or not there were really four brothers Karamazov in Dosyovsky's novel is irrelevant”

“I came across it that the word optimism didn't even exist until seventeen fifty nine, when it was invented. Honestly invented by Voltaire for his novel Candide or Optimism”

“He's also the author of books. Ignorance failure”

“He's also the author of books. Ignorance failure”

“It's called It Could Be Otherwise. There it is. Science in the Age of Uncertainty”

“Steve Gould wrote a book called uh Wonderful Life and he ran this uh thought experiment”

“Pinker talks about this in Enlightenment now, you know, that liberals hate progress and progressives really hate progress”

“a great mathematician, statistician, um who wrote a book called The Book of Why in which he really uses the whole idea of the counterfactual”

“one of my favorite books is Phil Tetlock's book on super forecasters”

“this little book called The Hedgehog and the Fox, which was it was actually supposed to be an analysis of Leo Tolstoy”

“Pinker talks about this in his rationality book, you know uh uh citing coneman and Tversky, it's the base rate neglect”

“We want to believe. Here it is. How aliens went mainstream and why it matters”

“then really I've been following it since Sagan's probably nineteen eighty Cosmos where you had that episode on extraterrestrial intelligences”

“You have a nice uh discussion here about Sagan's support of the SETI program and contact his novel made into a film and so on”

“For many people over the last forty years, that book that you reference is uh Whitley Striver's Communion”

“I had Neil uh Van Luen on the show. He wrote a book called Make Bel uh Make Religion is make believe. It's not a great title”

“author of The Sciences and Integrated Approach”

“The story of Earth, the first four point five billion years that covers most of it”

“Symphony and C, Carbon and the Evolution of Almost Everything”

“And his new book, here it is, Time's Second Arrow. Evolution, order, and a new law of nature”

“publication of Charles Darwin's on the origin of the origin of species”

“Steven Myers Big massive book, The Return of the God hypothesis”

“quote the title of a best selling book by Ray Kurzweil”

“He's the New York Times bestselling author of The Evolution of God”

“Which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize non zero The moral animal”

“The moral animal And Three Scientists and Their Gods”

“And Three Scientists and Their Gods, which was the finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and his book, Why Buddhism Is True”

“and his book, Why Buddhism Is True”

“and here's his new book. The God Test Artificial Intelligence and our Coming Cosmic Reckoning”

“Frank Tipler, the physicist, wrote that book, The Physics of Immortality”

“She's author edited more than twenty books, including Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling propaganda east and west and the Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism”

“She's author edited more than twenty books, including Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling propaganda east and west and the Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism”

“I kinda take uh Steven Pinker's idea of progress in Enlightenment now and the better angels of our nature”

“I kinda take uh Steven Pinker's idea of progress in Enlightenment now and the better angels of our nature”

“Adam Smith writes this book in seventeen seventy six, The Wealth of Nations on the origin of causes of the wealth of nations”

“And then all right, we're gonna get democracy and Fukiyama's the end of history and the last man, we're there”

“I wrote a book about the Holocaust denirers, this guy it is bullshit what he's saying”

“His second book, The Eighth That Understood the Universe, was published in September twenty eighteen, and an audio book version is now available and revised paperback edition releas the following year”

“Dated roughly from Copernicus's on the revolutions of the heavenly Spheres in fifteen forty three”

“To Isaac Newton's Principia. In sixteen eighty seven”

“In his seventeen forty eight work. The spirit of the laws, for example, is The French philosophie Consciously invoked Newton”

“The title is An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”

“His many books include The Right, Wrong Man and John Demunyuk and the last great Nazi war crimes trial”

“And the memory of judgment is Making law and history in the trials of the Holocaust”

“And his new book is The Criminal State”

“I r I remember reading The Desert Fox, the story of Erwin Rommel”

“most of his uh book on Hitler's war w the first edition was fine”

“I like to cite um Christopher Bohm's uh book, The Origins of Morality”

“There was a book that came out a few years ago called The Internationalists, uh by Una Hathaway and Scott Shapiro”

“wrote a book. I read, you know, what uh Diary at Spandauer, whatever it was called”

“Yeah, in my book Deny on History I document where They started off in the thirties euthanizing German citizens”

“I read uh Annie Jacobson's book, uh Operation Paperclip”

“Contact, Carl Sagan's film based uh the film based on Carl Sagan's book”

“There's a book, you know, like fifty answers to the Fermi paradox”

“The narrative was solidified when Charles Burlet's and William L. Moore's book, The Roswell Incident, was published”

“such as Kevin Randall and Donald Schmidt's UFO crash at Roswell”

“And Don Berliner and Staten Friedman's book Crash at Corona”