Michael Shermer

@michaelshermer · 251K followers · Science

Blue side, placed by their record: denies 15 of 15 conspiracy subjects where they take a side. No stance found on 1 subject.

9/11 Cover-Up: Denies, 3 lines. “I could not find one that collapsed from the top down, as did the World Trade Center buildings, including building 7.” (2023-09-11, source)
JFK Cover-Up: Denies, 9 lines. “So my conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating JFK is based purely on evidence. If there was a conspiracy to assassinate the 35th President of the United States this wasn’t it.” (2023-11-22, source)
Faked Moon Landing: Denies, 4 lines. “Such flummery should not warrant a response, but in a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism — the consumer advocates of ideas.” (undated, source)
UFO Cover-Up: Leans deny, 5 lines. “I strongly suspect that all UAP sightings fall into the first category, but other commentators suggest the second, noting that they could represent Russian or Chinese assets using technology as yet unknown to American s…” (2026-01-29, source)
COVID Bioweapon: Denies, 8 lines. “bioweapon is not quite as crazy but but we now know from the genetic analysis that it was not engineered it's a bat virus” (2020-07-06, source)
Vaccine Harm: Denies, 6 lines. “It’s an imperfect analogy, since rare vaccine side effects are real and witches aren’t. But the point remains: during a pandemic, it is important to focus on the real, not the imagined threat.” (2021-08-14, source)
Chemtrails: Denies, 1 line. “The same is true of the mind-control chemicals supposedly contained in the contrails produced by airplanes. Yet, oddly, with the skies now clear and almost entirely contrail-free during the pandemic lockdown, I haven’t…” (2020-05-07, source)
2020 Election Steal: Denies, 8 lines. “We saw this on January 6, 2021, when believers in QAnon and the Big Lie conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump marched on the Capitol to overthrow the government.” (2022-11-11, source)
Jan 6 Fed Setup: Leans deny, 2 lines. “Even in 2020 when Trump said he won, when MAGA followers stormed the Capitol Jan 6, on Jan 20, 2021 Biden was POTUS & DJT was gone.” (2025-09-25, source)
Great Replacement: No stance found
Deep State: Leans deny, 5 lines. “I wrote about the Deep State and QAnon and the Pizzagate business—that ping pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C. Do Republicans really think Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks and Beyoncé are running a pedophile ring out of a p…” (2026-04-18, source)
Epstein Cover-Up: Denies, 4 lines. “If Epstein was a Mossad agent, there should be evidence for it in the millions of private documents. None. QED. Not a spy.” (2026-02-06, source)
Climate Hoax: Leans deny, 4 lines. “we don't talk about whether global warming is real and human caused he thinks it is and starts with that that premise as he writes climate change is real it is caused predominantly by carbon emissions from humans burnin…” (2020-07-21, source)
Pizzagate: Denies, 6 lines. “Does anyone really believe that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats are running a secret Satanic pedophile ring out of the Washington D.C. Comet Ping Pong pizzeria? Edgar Welch did, and he went there with his loaded AR-…” (2022-10-14, source)
Q: Denies, 5 lines. “The QAnon conspiracy theory, one of the most absurd I've ever encountered (up there with David Icke's human–Archon hybrid race of shape-shifting reptilians running the world) is actually believed by many Trump supporter…” (2021-01-11, source)
Flat Earth: Leans deny, 2 lines. “there’s splits like that in creationism and the flat earthers are divided about their arguments.” (2020-07-06, source)
Creator Exists: Leans deny, 5 lines. “If by fiat I had to bet on whether there is a God or not, I would bet that there is not. Indeed, I live my life as if there was not a God.” (2000-07-01, source)

The record was last searched for new lines up to 2026-10-08.