# @michaelshermer: Chronological List (newest first)
Profile: [[Users/@michaelshermer/michaelshermer-x-profile|profile]] · Topic: [[Topics/Religion, Trust and Civilization/Religion, Trust and Civilization|Religion, Trust and Civilization]] · Analysis: [[Users/@michaelshermer/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - michaelshermer on Sagan's Dragon (2026-11-02)|Post Analysis]]
> **Coverage.** These are the 49 items X returned for this account (36 posts, 12 quotes, 1 repost), from Oct 17, 2026, 9:11 AM CT to Nov 3, 2026, 8:41 AM CT. It is a recent sample, not the full archive of 26,967 posts. Metrics are an X API snapshot from X API, Nov 3, 2026, about 9:50 AM CT, so the newest posts have had little time to collect likes and views. Themes were assigned by keyword rules and may misfile a few items. "thread" means a reply to his own post.
Times are Central Time (CT).
**Themes:**
- **Skepticism and science**
- **Mind and free will**
- **Religion and morality**
- **Culture war**
- **Other**
## Tuesday, Nov 3, 2026
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| [8:41 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2117628152235352505) | post | Skepticism and science | In the Great Silence Trailer for forthcoming Fermi paradox film that asks "where is everyone?" ETIs are likely out there; the Copernican Principle tha… | 6 | 1,613 |
## Monday, Nov 2, 2026
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| [8:51 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2117268304180261109) | post | Religion and morality | The epistemological problem behind the "supernatural" is illustrated by what I call (in Truth) Sagan's Dragon: Imagine that I tell you that I have a d… **Analysis: ✅.** | 204 | 9,278 |
| [8:43 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2117266282936738061) | quote | Skepticism and science | What, then, does "supernatural" mean? @UAPConvergence As defined it means something is outside of nature. O-kay, but since we operate inside of nature… | 24 | 4,214 |
| [8:03 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2117256259825176875) | quote | Skepticism and science | No @summaveritas my admission that disclosure of ETI presence on earth would be immediate with credible evidence in the form of confirmation by NASA,… | 18 | 4,156 |
## Sunday, Nov 1, 2026
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| [8:54 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2117088019664847039) | post | Other | Sean Kirkpatrick, 30 years in DoD & former director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office "said strange sightings detailed in recentl… | 45 | 9,187 |
| [6:25 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2117050372389027847) | quote | Other | Thank you @amyalkon and all the kind others who commented and shared your own grief over this particularly unique loss. It is indescribably sad at our… | 323 | 8,125 |
| [9:32 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116916363939991989) | quote | Skepticism and science | Response to comments: If there are aliens/ETIs out there or here, they will fall entirely within the worldview of naturalism. In fact, I go so far as… | 102 | 10,704 |
## Saturday, Oct 31, 2026
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| [5:02 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116652055641391184) | post | Other | "In a 2025 survey, 35% of undergraduate women reported experiencing 'nonconsensual sexual contact' since entering Cornell." Either Cornell is one of t… | 108 | 6,556 |
| [4:58 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116651164804714758) | post | Other | How Much Credit Do You Deserve for Your Life? Philosopher Duncan Pritchard joins me to discuss his book, Tempting Fate: A Philosophical Guide to Risk,… | 6 | 3,110 |
| [9:41 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116540991088066690) | post | Skepticism and science | What Exactly Is a Homeland? Egyptian journalist and architect Wena Rostom in Skeptic on what it was like growing up in the tiny village, Al-Arin Al-Qi… | 8 | 2,949 |
## Friday, Oct 30, 2026
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| [6:23 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116310155268890706) | post | Skepticism and science | Here is Sagan on the religious nature of the UFOs: "if you examine these myths, you find that there's some peculiar regularities. The inhabitants of s… | 116 | 12,197 |
| [6:17 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116308617423151585) | quote | Skepticism and science | No @planethunter56 I do not speak for the UAP Science Advisory Council & my X posts are my opinions only. As for the suggestion that the UFO/UAP movem… | 35 | 13,005 |
| [4:50 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116286764730237139) | post | Skepticism and science | Is AI Conscious, and Can It Feel Pain? Erez Batat for Skeptic answers: "Ask the machine whether it hurts, and you’ll hear its makers." https://t.co/oR… | 17 | 3,562 |
| [4:46 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116285741651435650) | post | Skepticism and science | Jay Stratton also claims that former Lockheed Martin executive Jim Ryder told him that the aerospace company has a dozen alien craft that they are wor… | 32 | 6,091 |
| [3:04 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116259886971683118) | post | Skepticism and science | If you’ve ever wanted to explore the cradle of Western civilization with fellow skeptics, next April 12th-22nd, 2027, the Skeptics Society is hosting… | 21 | 3,933 |
| [2:02 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116244489576849544) | post | Other | I finished @jaystratton new book. He's blocked me so he won't respond to my comments. In his last chapter I find out why: According to Jay Stratton, w… | 127 | 16,077 |
| [1:29 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2116236177305207046) | post | Skepticism and science | Of course. @jaystratton UAP book will be made into a TV series by Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire) partnered with Dan Farah, director of The Age of D… | 66 | 5,997 |
## Wednesday, Oct 28, 2026
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| [11:52 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2115667978071183513) | repost | Other | RT @ConjectureInst: Over 400 people have registered for our Defend the West conference! WHEN: 1/13/2027 WHERE: Online (free) Speaker… | 0 | 327 |
| [9:26 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2115450086461489343) | post | Skepticism and science | The Asymmetry of Truth: What Really Happened on Epstein Island? Mislav Gleich for Skeptic "Unless there is direct evidence to prove any one particular… | 19 | 4,641 |
## Tuesday, Oct 27, 2026
| Time (CT) | Type | Theme | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views |
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| [11:28 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2115299685619630360) | post | Other | I concur @Evolutionistrue "No, evolution does not need a rebuild, and The Selfish Gene is not outmoded. It remains, for those who haven’t read it, a p… | 217 | 8,512 |
| [2:08 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2115158633327824957) | post | Religion and morality | The Psychology that Gave Birth to Religion Good film short featuring Dan Dennett & myself exploring different purposes or exaptations shared by faiths… | 74 | 9,830 |
| [7:16 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2115054983473463657) | post | Other | Is the new documentary about the fraudulent con artist Elizabeth Holmes itself a fraudulent con? If so, it appears to be working as masses of people a… | 156 | 39,091 |
## Monday, Oct 26, 2026
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| [11:31 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114938099373601205) | quote | Other | Ditto what @geraldposner says to Dan Rather... https://t.co/CxDhQ8bXM8 | 34 | 6,608 |
| [5:40 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114849791150805134) | post | Skepticism and science | A Skeptic’s Guide to Environmental Alarmism Marc Defant in Skeptic "leaves room for skepticism toward apocalyptic rhetoric without requiring denial of… | 21 | 4,690 |
## Sunday, Oct 25, 2026
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| [8:40 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114351318035018023) | post | Skepticism and science | Headline: "British Airways jet 'nearly crashes' into mystery 'UFO' after leaving Heathrow Airport" Text: "The pilot of the B777 reported that a drone… | 51 | 8,089 |
| [8:23 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114347117837951156) | post | Skepticism and science | Reading this book by a “sympathetic sceptic” has some insight for us interested in UFOs/UAPs: After 90 years of sightings, photographs, videos, and ex… | 27 | 4,309 |
| [8:13 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114344570591027213) | post | Culture war | “Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care & Liberation” Yet another once great organization, the American Psychological Association, goes woke, replac… | 122 | 6,426 |
## Saturday, Oct 24, 2026
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| [5:20 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114119976479281477) | post | Other | Even Democrats now acknowledge reality: “transgender girls” are “boys” & that’s why they should not compete in girls sports. Remember how long and har… | 244 | 7,395 |
| [1:28 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114061453636649276) | post | Culture war | The problem with land acknowledgments beyond their virtue signaling without ever having to do anything (like give the land back), as explained by Jerr… | 341 | 21,576 |
| [1:23 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114060322311159842) | post | Other | The Guru Who Fooled Millions Journalist and writer Ru Marshall spent twenty years investigating a New Age fabulist and liar for his new book American… | 19 | 6,150 |
| [9:56 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2114008106636284342) | post | Other | "Even our earlier Aerospace Global News report examining the aircraft acknowledged that the TR-3B’s existence remains speculative. The extraordinary p… | 37 | 7,460 |
## Friday, Oct 23, 2026
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| [9:45 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113824144374841478) | post | Skepticism and science | Here is my account of what happened to Scientific American before the latest meltdown, when the wokeness first began to rot this once great institutio… | 398 | 31,736 |
| [8:56 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113811779465957386) | post | Skepticism and science | The Fall of Scientific American Emmet Fraizer picks up the story where I left off a few years ago, as this once great national institution of publishi… | 374 | 10,658 |
## Thursday, Oct 22, 2026
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| [7:19 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113425077463380342) | post | Other | The deeper problem beyond the fact that Elizabeth Holmes is a pathological liar is that her victims succumbed to "Truth Default" theory: Given limited… | 320 | 22,912 |
| [9:40 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113279413110591724) | post | Culture war | "It’s also not particularly 'woke' to recognize that the awe-inspiring achievements of ancient Greece and Rome coexisted with inhumanity toward the co… | 49 | 6,535 |
| [9:18 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113273743703458289) | quote | Other | Two words @johntamny : Bernie Madoff He carried out his fraud to top investors for decades without getting caught, even when investigated by the SEC a… | 37 | 5,692 |
## Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026
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| [6:43 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113053488037195923) | post | Mind and free will | What's it like to be an AI? How would I know? I don't even know what it's like to be a bat, or you, or anyone else (the problem of other minds redux).… | 21 | 4,775 |
| [4:21 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2113017922088226999) | post | Other | Interesting new site: Slugfester Lists peoples' debates, AI summaries, evals, fallacies, biases, winners and losers, ratings, etc. Looks like I won 7… | 19 | 4,054 |
| [8:40 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2112901753666781315) | post | Skepticism and science | When AI Builds Skill, and When It Erodes It The plusses and minuses of AI by Gleb Tsipursky for Skeptic (like nearly everything that matters, AI will… | 18 | 3,130 |
| [8:38 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2112901250048258271) | post | Mind and free will | Why consciousness needs a body with emotions built from the bottom up by natural selection (not top-down design like computers that lack emotions) neu… | 173 | 13,461 |
## Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026
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| [9:52 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2112738790770942365) | quote | Skepticism and science | Despite decades of investigating people with extraordinary claims, it never ceases to amaze me when I come across yet another liar, charlatan, fabulis… | 812 | 46,967 |
## Sunday, Oct 18, 2026
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| [10:08 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111836722422018477) | post | Skepticism and science | Neuroscientists Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch, et al. make a strong case for real free will (not an illusion) if Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is… | 434 | 39,202 |
| [9:19 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111824436450197614) | quote | Other | Sign up now! You can watch the conference from your laptop and learn how to and why we should defend the west... https://t.co/TzGk8EEJ5C | 25 | 3,977 |
## Saturday, Oct 17, 2026
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| [4:35 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111571795547754754) | quote | Mind and free will | BTW, Antonio’s theory of consciousness dependent on emotions (actually feeling, not an “emotion chip” as in Star Trek’s Data) implies that AGI can nev… | 62 | 9,393 |
| [3:44 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111558963422748862) | post | Skepticism and science | Why consciousness needs a body (with emotions). The great neuroscientist Antonio Damasio outlines his theory to explain the hard problem of consciousn… | 279 | 26,218 |
| [12:38 PM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111512271524651122) | post | Skepticism and science | Will the Truth of Science Lead Us to Justice Among the Stars? Good commentary (and review of Truth) by Walter Bloom https://t.co/pS8ZadinRj | 9 | 3,686 |
| [9:25 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111463712850624939) | post | Other | Here is the rest of my SciAm column on Alvy's Error, "assessing the purpose of something at the wrong level of analysis," which theologians like Willi… | 50 | 5,593 |
| [9:15 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111460989640089857) | quote | Other | Gotta love Community Notes: "This unverified second-hand anecdote from a Dec 2025 podcast offers no names, dates, documents or corroboration. Pentagon… | 18 | 7,554 |
| [9:11 AM](https://x.com/michaelshermer/status/2111460028364345432) | quote | Other | Yes. I didn't know X now automatically translates posts in a foreign language. I guess you're right, it thinks we're all illiterate. The original (whi… | 7 | 6,831 |