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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 8
Historian Of Science
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Psychologist
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Glendale
California
USA
Michael Brant Shermer
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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
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Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.
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I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.
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The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
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In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
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Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood.
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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
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Skepticism is not a position skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
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No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
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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.
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