#1222 – Michael Shermer

Books mentioned on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast

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  The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People
  by Michael Shermer

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  Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
  by Michael Shermer

  religion

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  Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement
  by Anthony Robbins

  motivation

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  books by Jocko Willink

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  Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
  by Steve Salerno

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  Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence
  by Amy Alkon

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  Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies
  by Geoffrey West

  science

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  Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World
  by Michele Gelfand

  psychology

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  Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health
  by L. Ron Hubbard

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  Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  by Lawrence Wright

  most mentioned religion

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  The Bible

  most mentioned religion

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  Mortality
  by Christopher Hitchens

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  The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
  by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt

  most mentioned

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  Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
  by Michael Shermer

  conspiracy

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  Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
  by Gerald Posner

  conspiracy

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  The Trial of Henry Kissinger
  by Christopher Hitchens

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  Best Evidence
  by David S. Lifton

  most mentioned conspiracy joe’s favorites

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  A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security
  by Rachel Kleinfeld

  politics

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  Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
  by Steven Pinker

  psychology

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Joe Rogan Experience Podcast Episode #1222

Michael Shermer (@michaelshermer) is an author, the publisher of Skeptic Magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and host of Science Salon podcast.

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