Into the Impossible · Episode 557

Michael Shermer — YouTube Description

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Hook 228 chars Chapters 17 Hashtags 0 Thumbnail $1,000 SAYS NO

1 · Hook (above the fold)

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Michael Shermer bet Avi Loeb $1,000 we won't find aliens by 2030. Then the White House put him on its UFO task force. We got into the bet, the evidence everyone says is classified, and why he thinks the resurrection is the wrong question.

2 · The /theory block

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3 · Chapters

Curiosity-gap hooks, not labels. First at 00:00.

00:00 $1,000 says we won't find aliens
01:10 They put the world's most famous skeptic on the UFO task force
02:44 "No more stories. And no new physics."
03:47 The bet with Avi Loeb, in his own words
05:56 Interdimensional beings and the escalation ladder
08:13 "I can only tell you in a SCIF"
09:24 The invisible, levitating, cold-blooded dragon
11:56 95% of sightings have a boring explanation
13:52 Why Venus keeps fooling everyone
18:47 Is the Big Bang in trouble? (No.)
20:44 The two kinds of truth
28:51 Why the Jews never accepted the resurrection
30:01 String theory has zero evidence. Junk DNA has more.
37:47 Sean Carroll's wasteful God
38:47 Fine-tuning is worse tuned than my violin
45:24 Why flat-earthers need it to be flat
52:13 The last interview Daniel Dennett ever gave

4 · Footer

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Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine. His new book is Truth: What It Is, How to Find It & Why It Still Matters.

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