The irony of that statement is pretty thick, considering the source and the program it comes from. There is no one more vested in building a narrative against acknowledging there are things we don't know than Michael Shermer. I like him and respect a lot of his work. I will say that the fact he's a recovering fundamentalist Christian has made him become more dogmatic about his skepticism and rigid in his faith in disbelief. Shermer's history as a climate science denialist is an example of him picking the wrong hill and willing to die on it. He only changed his tune when the evidence was so stacked against the denialists that he had to switch sides to save his reputation. Nothing satisfies a true disbeliever until their reputation takes a hit.
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