Why we need skeptics | Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer discusses the danger of silencing discussion.

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If we put barriers up to silence 'unpleasant' ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? Professional sceptic and bestselling author of Giving the Devil his Due Michael Shermer explores the dangerous possibility of a world without free speech.

Michael Shermer is a science writer and historian of science.

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Michael Shermer is the founder of The Skeptics Society and the editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. He is also a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, where he teaches Skepticism 101.

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