Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focussed on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. He is the author of over a dozen books, the most recent of which is ‘Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.’

You can find Michael's book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1421444453/ 

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

00:00 Intro 
01:16 Michael Shermer’s Background
03:21 The Information Era’s Impact on Conspiracies
10:06 Big Tech Speech Censorship
16:40 When Should a Media Platform Censor Someone? 
19:27 Sponsor Message: Athletic Greens
20:58 The Twitter Files
28:33 Have We Become More Conspiratorial?
36:51 Epstein’s Island & Flight Logs
42:33 The Great Reset
48:11 The Conspiracy Theorist Demographic
55:52 Conspiracy & Victimhood
1:00:54 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?