[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @michaelshermer Michael Shermer Michael Shermer posts on X about hamas, middle east, palestine, freed the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::34868965/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +28% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::34868965/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +33% - X Months XXX +7.40% - X Year XXX +30% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::34868965/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.03% - X Months XXXXXXX +0.22% - X Year XXXXXXX +1% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::34868965/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::34868965/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [hamas](/topic/hamas) 0.68%, [middle east](/topic/middle-east) 0.68%, [palestine](/topic/palestine) 0.68%, [freed](/topic/freed) 0.68%, [israel](/topic/israel) 0.68%, [white house](/topic/white-house) 0.34%, [collection of](/topic/collection-of) 0.34%, [phd](/topic/phd) 0.34%, [amazon rainforest](/topic/amazon-rainforest) 0.34%, [cozy](/topic/cozy) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@teapartytempest](/creator/undefined) [@marcbel19406167](/creator/undefined) [@burntsynapse](/creator/undefined) [@geraldposner](/creator/undefined) [@gadsaad](/creator/undefined) [@marc_desm](/creator/undefined) [@billprady](/creator/undefined) [@docrazz02748](/creator/undefined) [@ericrweinstein](/creator/undefined) [@mickwest](/creator/undefined) [@mnmlviablepersn](/creator/undefined) [@sapinker](/creator/undefined) [@lynne_ogilvy](/creator/undefined) [@amandajanewilde](/creator/undefined) [@amandarberes](/creator/undefined) [@kepilar77](/creator/undefined) [@john_r_shepard](/creator/undefined) [@emmamegmargot](/creator/undefined) [@bunchesofstoats](/creator/undefined) [@overtintent](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::34868965/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "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 246.5K followers, 4998 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 246.4K followers, 10.7K 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 246.5K followers, 11.7K engagements "A great day for freedom" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977737040738353444) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T14:03Z 246.5K followers, 8810 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 246.4K followers, 7655 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 246.5K followers, 8436 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 246.4K followers, 28.3K engagements "The decline and fall of Tucker Carlson @JonahDispatch "The fake awe at Russian grocery stores; the claims of interdimensional demons one of whom scratched his arms in the middle of the night while he was sleeping with his four dogs."" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1976858081813573764) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-11T03:51Z 246.4K followers, 6262 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 246.4K followers, 13.5K 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, 14.4K engagements "Amanpour @PamelaParesky like most MSM commentators comedians like Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert & most academics are so ensconced in their liberalism/leftism that they are completely unaware of their biases against Israel Jews etc. It's the water they swim in" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1978136663587983742) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-14T16:31Z 246.5K followers, 10.1K engagements "Wrong Poverty is the natural state Poverty is what happens when you do nothing Wealth is generated by creating products & services people want Here are the opening lines of my 2008 book The Mind of the Market: Living along the Orinoco River that borders Brazil and Venezuela are the Yanomam people hunter-gatherers whose average annual income has been estimated at the equivalent of about $XXX per person per year. If you walked into a Yanomam village and counted up the stone tools baskets arrow points arrow shafts bows cotton yarn cotton and vine hammocks clay pots assorted other tools various" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1974656931659915615) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-05T02:04Z 246.5K followers, 65K 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 246.5K followers, 28.4K engagements ""RFK Jr. failed to note that the pertussis vaccine which was introduced in the 1940s reduced the number of pertussis deaths from 9000 per year to fewer than XX and that the measles vaccine which was introduced in the early 1960s reduced the number of measles deaths from XXX to 0." Other than that what have vaccines ever done for us" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1975583932298236238) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-07T15:28Z 246.5K followers, 9579 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 246.5K followers, 9113 engagements "Introducing Shermer Says A weekly commentary on current events from a rational skeptical scientific perspective. This week: Charlie Kirk Trump Nobel Peace Prize Autism Tylenol Vaccines ANTIFA Bari Weiss & CBS News political violence and more" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977813223232729565) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T19:06Z 246.4K followers, 6452 engagements "Indeed @geraldposner today is the test of the Left's true values. It's almost as if they would prefer more dead Palestinians than that Israel got the hostages back and it was Trump who made that happen (and of course they hate Israel and Jews as a matter principle)" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977859986262020155) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T22:12Z 246.4K followers, 10.9K 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, 13.8K 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 246.4K followers, 12.2K 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 246.5K followers, 50.1K engagements "Jimmy Kimmel: "There's no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa. This is no different than if they announced they rounded up a dozen decepticons. and then it was Trump's turn to ratchet up the rhetoric with fiery images conjured from no one has any idea where" Where indeed" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1976803293545611456) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-11T00:13Z 246.4K followers, 24.5K engagements ""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 246.5K followers, 3733 engagements "When Rationality Becomes Irrational One of the founders of behavioral economics admits that Homo Economicus--perfectly rational consistently self-interested and aims to maximize their own utility or profit--doesn't exist" [X Link](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/1977727394413715611) [@michaelshermer](/creator/x/michaelshermer) 2025-10-13T13:25Z 246.5K followers, 5154 engagements
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@michaelshermer Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer posts on X about hamas, middle east, palestine, freed the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX +28%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XXXX%
- X Month XXX +33%
- X Months XXX +7.40%
- X Year XXX +30%
Followers: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +0%
- X Month XXXXXXX +0.03%
- X Months XXXXXXX +0.22%
- X Year XXXXXXX +1%
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Social Influence #
Social category influence countries XXXX% travel destinations XXXX% finance XXXX%
Social topic influence hamas 0.68%, middle east 0.68%, palestine 0.68%, freed 0.68%, israel 0.68%, white house 0.34%, collection of 0.34%, phd 0.34%, amazon rainforest 0.34%, cozy XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @teapartytempest @marcbel19406167 @burntsynapse @geraldposner @gadsaad @marc_desm @billprady @docrazz02748 @ericrweinstein @mickwest @mnmlviablepersn @sapinker @lynne_ogilvy @amandajanewilde @amandarberes @kepilar77 @john_r_shepard @emmamegmargot @bunchesofstoats @overtintent
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-15T17:29Z 246.5K followers, 4998 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 @michaelshermer 2025-09-29T01:35Z 246.4K followers, 10.7K 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-14T19:26Z 246.5K followers, 11.7K engagements
"A great day for freedom"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T14:03Z 246.5K followers, 8810 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 @michaelshermer 2025-09-25T01:19Z 246.4K followers, 7655 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-17T00:49Z 246.5K followers, 8436 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-04T20:51Z 246.4K followers, 28.3K engagements
"The decline and fall of Tucker Carlson @JonahDispatch "The fake awe at Russian grocery stores; the claims of interdimensional demons one of whom scratched his arms in the middle of the night while he was sleeping with his four dogs.""
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-11T03:51Z 246.4K followers, 6262 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T15:53Z 246.4K followers, 13.5K 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T22:25Z 246.5K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Amanpour @PamelaParesky like most MSM commentators comedians like Jimmy Kimmel & Stephen Colbert & most academics are so ensconced in their liberalism/leftism that they are completely unaware of their biases against Israel Jews etc. It's the water they swim in"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-14T16:31Z 246.5K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Wrong Poverty is the natural state Poverty is what happens when you do nothing Wealth is generated by creating products & services people want Here are the opening lines of my 2008 book The Mind of the Market: Living along the Orinoco River that borders Brazil and Venezuela are the Yanomam people hunter-gatherers whose average annual income has been estimated at the equivalent of about $XXX per person per year. If you walked into a Yanomam village and counted up the stone tools baskets arrow points arrow shafts bows cotton yarn cotton and vine hammocks clay pots assorted other tools various"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-05T02:04Z 246.5K followers, 65K 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-15T01:55Z 246.5K followers, 28.4K engagements
""RFK Jr. failed to note that the pertussis vaccine which was introduced in the 1940s reduced the number of pertussis deaths from 9000 per year to fewer than XX and that the measles vaccine which was introduced in the early 1960s reduced the number of measles deaths from XXX to 0." Other than that what have vaccines ever done for us"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-07T15:28Z 246.5K followers, 9579 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-15T15:44Z 246.5K followers, 9113 engagements
"Introducing Shermer Says A weekly commentary on current events from a rational skeptical scientific perspective. This week: Charlie Kirk Trump Nobel Peace Prize Autism Tylenol Vaccines ANTIFA Bari Weiss & CBS News political violence and more"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T19:06Z 246.4K followers, 6452 engagements
"Indeed @geraldposner today is the test of the Left's true values. It's almost as if they would prefer more dead Palestinians than that Israel got the hostages back and it was Trump who made that happen (and of course they hate Israel and Jews as a matter principle)"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T22:12Z 246.4K followers, 10.9K 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T18:15Z 246.5K followers, 13.8K 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-09T15:41Z 246.4K followers, 12.2K 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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T18:07Z 246.5K followers, 50.1K engagements
"Jimmy Kimmel: "There's no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa. This is no different than if they announced they rounded up a dozen decepticons. and then it was Trump's turn to ratchet up the rhetoric with fiery images conjured from no one has any idea where" Where indeed"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-11T00:13Z 246.4K followers, 24.5K engagements
""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 @michaelshermer 2025-10-15T16:02Z 246.5K followers, 3733 engagements
"When Rationality Becomes Irrational One of the founders of behavioral economics admits that Homo Economicus--perfectly rational consistently self-interested and aims to maximize their own utility or profit--doesn't exist"
X Link @michaelshermer 2025-10-13T13:25Z 246.5K followers, 5154 engagements