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[@michaelshermer](/creator/twitter/michaelshermer)
""Most mainstream media organizations arealreadyrun by people who reflect Oliver's opinions sensibilities and news judgment. Reporters editors and managers at major media companies skew overwhelmingly to the left. Theonlyplaces where this isn't true are explicitly conservative news organizations most of which do not pretend that their own ideological convictions can be readily set aside.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978491741507551400) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-15T16:02Z 246.6K followers, 3891 engagements


"In @WSJ Barton Swaim tracks recent spike in secularists becoming Christians noting how impressed they are by arguments for fine-tuning biblical miracles & Jesus resurrection. They all quote from Martin Rees's Just Six numbers that the universe was designed. They why is Martin a nonbeliever Why are these authors skeptical of non-biblical miracles (e.g. those by the Indian godman Sathya Sai Baba that millions accept) Why are they also skeptical of the numerous miracles attributed to Muhammad believed by a billion Muslims Why don't Jews accept the resurrection of Jesus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1980043003160150233) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-19T22:46Z 246.6K followers, 4908 engagements


"Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise For the first time in more than XX years attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right. (Not to mention the massive spike in left-wing terrorism in the 60s & 70s far worse than today.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1971021736486572090) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-09-25T01:19Z 246.5K followers, 7661 engagements


"Grok: Write a commercial for Carole Hooven @hoovlet as the Dos Equis most interesting woman in the world Scene opens with dramatic music sweeping shots of exotic locations: a Harvard lecture hall the Amazon rainforest a TED stage and a cozy pub. Narrator (deep suave voice): "She once debated a gorilla on the nuances of primate behavior. and won. Cut to Carole Hooven in a jungle gesturing animatedly at a gorilla who nods in agreement. Narrator: "Her lectures on testosterone have been known to boost confidence levels in entire auditoriums. Scene: Packed Harvard classroom students suddenly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1972475400967410164) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-09-29T01:35Z 246.5K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Checking Xthe Free free Palestine people have gone strangely silent. Maybe theyve taken the day off to celebrate the achievement of two years of their protests and activism. Or maybe it was never really about freedom for Palestinians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977800498561659034) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T18:15Z 246.5K followers, 13.9K engagements


"Today Leftists are facing the Buttered Cat Paradox: Cats always land on their feet. Buttered toast always lands butter-side down. "We Hate Trump" "Free free Palestine" Palestine was freed today.by Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977863302291370252) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T22:25Z 246.5K followers, 14.5K engagements


"Dear @Ryan_UFOs If biologists claimed they discovered a new species of living bipedal primate (eg Yeti) and as proof presented blurry photographs grainy videos and stories about eyewitnesses that saw something weird in the middle of the night would the scientific community accept their claim as true No. Why Because in biology in order to name a new species you need a type specimen (a holotype)an actual body of the new species. UFOlogists could end all this speculation by at long last showing us the body. That cryptozoologists have failed to find a single type specimen of Yeti after centuries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1965252785290793200) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-09-09T03:15Z 246.6K followers, 13.6K engagements


"The truth does not require your participation in order to exist. Bullshit does. Terence McKenna"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1979319183184924784) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-17T22:50Z 246.6K followers, 93.8K engagements


"teaching 1st yr uni students @sapinker I had more & more students with letters from the campus shrink excusing them from class discussions student talks more time needed for tests etc because theyre on the spectrum which has become wider than the electromagnetic spectrum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1979715179823939758) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-19T01:04Z 246.6K followers, 38.8K engagements


"In addition to promoting science reason & skepticism we also officiate secular weddings. Here is Minister Michael (Universal Life Church) officiating the very sciency wedding of Justin & Michelle (Four Seasons Westlake Village)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1980052204838158463) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-19T23:23Z 246.6K followers, 4345 engagements


"The data @billmaher is quoting here is from our last Skeptic Research Center survey. This happens a lot to my surprise when we started the SRC that people use our data and even re-construct our graphs without attribution as if they did the research. Not. Right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1974578033307930871) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-04T20:51Z 246.6K followers, 28.3K engagements


"My point here is this: There are progressives liberals & even GOP never-Trumpers whose apparent TDS prevents them from evaluating Trump rationally No POTUS is pure evil If you denounce EVERYTHING Trump does as bad then you're not being rational Acknowledging successes is ok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1976312167780712733) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-09T15:41Z 246.6K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Anyone who champions peace & freedom should acknowledge Trump for getting the hostages back & negotiating peace in the Middle East. If you can't because of TDS/Never Trump then you need to reassess your principles. It's OK to disagree with Trump's politics & personality AND acknowledge he did something good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977764530341158979) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T15:53Z 246.6K followers, 13.5K engagements


"The always reliable and insightful @mattjj89 on the problem of "doing your own research" on complex geo-political issues for which deeply-read and widely educated expertise still matters and why the truth still matters:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978180564352970916) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-14T19:26Z 246.6K followers, 11.8K engagements


"No @GadSaad you listened to the wrong podcast. I heard another fitness health guru quoting a study w/ an N of XX that ate raw eggs before a 5-minute "perineum sunning" session that increased their subjective well being score by XXX points. Come on man keep up with the science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978278495265427909) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-15T01:55Z 246.6K followers, 28.7K engagements


"Astonishing. She acknowledges Olympics has women's divisions for obvious physical differences reasons but she wants everyone to be able to compete & transwomen (men) want to be in women's sports. Sorryyou can't have it both ways. Women's rights vs. Trans rights. Choose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978487065374536171) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-15T15:44Z 246.6K followers, 9286 engagements


"True @GadSaad but note JFK at a White House dinner for Nobel Laureates: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978513594057716208) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-15T17:29Z 246.6K followers, 5153 engagements


"More findings from our Skeptic Research Center on the massive overestimation of the % of people who identify as LGBTQ (45% vs. 23%) (and it appears from other data that the XX% is likely greatly exaggerated. Why Social contagion + pluralistic ignorance = overestimation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978986570121384194) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-17T00:49Z 246.6K followers, 9377 engagements


"I have placed a formal bet with Long Bets accountable predictions platform: Discovery or disclosure of alien visitation to Earth in the form of UFOs UAPs or any other technological artifact or alien biological form as confirmed by major scientific institutions and government agencies will not happen by December XX 02027 $1000 winnings go to charity (Givewell). Will anyone take my Long Bets challenge @Dan_Farah @UAPJames @realannapaulina @ChrisKMellon @DailyUFOPosts @nickpopemod @AncientAliens @JeremyCorbell @g_knapp @rosscoulthart @dwpasulka @shellenberger @blackvaultcom @UAPDF @LueElizondo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1979555139016143087) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-18T14:28Z 246.6K followers, 10.8K engagements


"Excellent non-partisan take by @coldxman on why the history of slavery should be non-partisan As with everything the far-left's insistence that the U.S. was founded in slavery (1619 Project) goes too far but Trump's over-correction isn't the right fix"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1975924355025523017) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-08T14:00Z 246.6K followers, 19.4K engagements


"Perfect example of @sapinker idea of the Left Pole from which anyone not standing on the pole is on the right. @bariweiss embodies politically neutral evaluation of each story/event individually. If you cant see that then youre on the left pole. Move away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977798274603249764) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T18:07Z 246.6K followers, 50.3K engagements


"Here is the argument for my Long Bet that there will not be disclosure of alien contact by December XX 2027: Since the founding of the Skeptics Society and Skeptic magazine in 1992 I have been documenting predictions by UFOlogists that discovery or disclosure of alien visitation to Earth is coming any day now. Believers appear in the media boldly predicting that by the end of the year we will have proof of alien contact33 years later I'm still waiting for said proof. More recently proponents of UAPs as alien spacecraft have appeared before the U.S. Congress confidently claiming that they know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1979916507917500505) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-19T14:24Z 246.6K followers, 6717 engagements


"Oh dear I have once again violated X's community guidelines. All I have to do to clear this matter up is click on the link type in my username / password and the problem will disappear along with my X account to these fraudsters. Don't these people have better things to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1980054176626610587) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-19T23:31Z 246.6K followers, 5486 engagements


""women are more harm-averse equity-oriented and prone to resolving conflict through social exclusion. As a result shifting sex compositions can bring palpable cultural change." @ImHardcory is one of the most insightful & courageous researchers today:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1980105312448422032) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-20T02:54Z 246.6K followers, 10.4K engagements