Michael Shermer: How Scientific American Got Woke

The science writer and journalists talks identity politics, wokeness, trans athletes, and why his goal is to find out what is true rather than to be I think the secondwave feminists I ve talked to are very worried about the kind of woke, genderidentity movement because it s reducing women to just body parts, says Michael Shermer. A guy can say, Well, if I just get breast implants and then I can have a vaginal plastic made out of a piece of my skin, I m in. I m a woman, right Well, no, because women are not just tits and ass. There s more to it than that, a lot For decades, Shermer has been one of the most popularand provocativeexplicators of science to popular audiences, having authored bestselling books such as Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Moral Arc, and The Mind of the Market. He founded Sk