In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with explorer of consciousness and the emcee of Contact in the Desert (the largest UFO event in the country), Alan Steinfeld, who for over 30 years has hosted and produced the weekly television series New Realities in New York City. In his book, Making Contact, Steinfeld has edited together multiple perspectives on what he claims can no longer be denied: UFOs and their occupants are visiting our world. The volume contains original writings by the leading experts of the phenomena such as: the former head of the Harvard Medical school of psychiatry and an alien abduction investigator, Darryl Anka, internationally known for his communication with the extraterrestrial Bashar; Nick Pope, former UK Ministry of Defense UFO investigator; Grant Cameron, expert on American presidents and UFOs; Caroline Cory, director of Superhuman and ET: Contact; Mary Rodwell, author of The New Human about star-seed children, and many others.
Note: It is Dr. Shermer’s intention in his podcast to periodically talk to people with whom skeptics and scientists may disagree. In some episodes Dr. Shermer tries to “steel man” a position held by someone with differing views — that is, he says in his own words what he thinks the other person is arguing — but in this case the other person is in the conversation and can represent his own position clearly, which is what happens. As well, such conversations enable principles of skepticism to be employed in ways constructive to those who hold views not necessarily embraced by skeptics and scientists. Such principles should be embraced by all seekers of truth, and that is why we want to talk to people with whom we may disagree.
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300. Saleem Ali — Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life
299. Richard Reeves — Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
298. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
297. Andrew Doyle — How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World
296. Stephen Bloom on Jane Elliott’s Famous Experiment on Race and Brutality and What It Reveals About Today’s Racial Divide
295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet
294. Sabine Hossenfelder — Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions
293. Konstantin Kisin — An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West
292. Gary Marcus — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
291. Rob Ashton — Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating
290. Anastacia Marx de Salcedo — Eat like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
289. James Kirchick — Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species
287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity
286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why
285. Helen Joyce — Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality
284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism
283. Michael Strevens — The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science
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