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Skeptic Michael Shermer on Atheism, Happiness, and the Free Market

Filed Dec 09 2010 in: Atheism by: DeltaV

Whether they’re intelligent design advocates, psychics, or 9/11 truthers, Skeptic Magazine’s Founding Publisher Michael Shermer says the world is full of people who believe weird things.

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Shermer sat down with Reason.tv’s Tim Cavanaugh at Libertopia 2010 in Hollywood to discuss why self-help gurus aren’t the key to happiness, what the New Atheist movement hopes to accomplish, why liberals accept evolution but not free markets, and why he switched from global warming skepticism to acceptance.

Approximately 9 minutes. Camera by Adam Hawk Jensen and Zach Weissmueller. Edited by Weissmueller. Music by Bjorn Fogelberg (Magnatune Records).


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