Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2016-03-07
Joe Rogan & Michael Shermer: books mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience #770
#770 - Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Learn more about your ad choices.
Michael Shermer recommended Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, and discussed The Secret Race by Tyler Hamilton and others and When Prophecy Fails by Leon Festinger and others. Joe Rogan recommended The Moral Arc by Michael Shermer, and discussed Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Secret Race
Discussed“so he wrote that book The Secret race here's what we did and that blew it all open”
Where to get it
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When Prophecy Fails
Discussed“so he recorded this and wrote a book about it called when prophecy fails and the answer is they double down on their belief”
Where to get it
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Dianetics
Discussed“I ordered a book late night TV in like 1994 dynetics I was into like I was into Anthony Robbins self-help stuff”
Where to get it
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Under the Banner of Heaven
Recommended“one of my favorite books is John CRA hours under the banner of Heaven he's a great writer”
Where to get it
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The Moral Arc
Recommended“is this your most recent moral art can take that with you on your vacation very very much the moral AR”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Why People Believe Weird Things
“and I thought that's an interesting Niche to have and and so that just got bigger and bigger in my first book why people believe where things came out in 97 and about that time ocidental College was going through a financial crisis and they were letting go their adjuncts”
Plugged The Moral Arc
“in the moral Arc I have a chapter on animal rights in which I show that the numbers are still in single digits”
Plugged The Moral Arc
“so I call that I call it in the moral Arc I call that protop Solutions”
Plugged The Moral Arc
“so I mean the moral Arc that's what that's about tracking”