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DR. MICHAEL SHERMER
Michael Shermer, as head of one of America's leading skeptic
organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of
this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American
public life.
Stephen Jay Gould
Michael Shermer, Ph.D. is the Founding Publisher of
Skeptic
magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly
columnist for
Scientific American, the host of the
Skeptics
Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct
Professor
of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Michael's latest book is
The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary
economics. His last book was
Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case
Against Intelligent Design, and he is the author of
Science Friction:
Where the Known Meets the Unknown, about how the mind works and
how
thinking goes wrong.
His book
The Science of Good and
Evil: Why People
Cheat, Gossip, Share Care, and Follow the Golden Rule, is on the
evolutionary origins of morality and how to be good without God. He
wrote a biography,
In Darwin's Shadow, about the life and science of the
co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace.
He also wrote
The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between
science and
pseudoscience, and
Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms
of pseudohistory. His book
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the
Search for God, presents his theory on the origins of religion
and why
people believe in God. He is also the author of
Why People Believe Weird
Things on pseudoscience, superstitions, and other confusions of
our
time.
Michael earned his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University,
his M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University,
Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont
Graduate University (1991). He was a college professor for 20 years
(1979-1998), teaching psychology, evolution, and the history of science
at Occidental College (1989-1998), California State University Los
Angeles, and Glendale College.
Since his creation of the
Skeptics
Society, Skeptic magazine, and the Skeptics Distinguished Science
Lecture Series at Caltech, he has appeared on such shows as The Colbert
Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder,
Donahue, Oprah, Lezza, Unsolved Mysteries (but, proudly, never Jerry
Springer!), and other shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary
claims, as well as interviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS,
A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The
Learning Channel. He was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour
Family Channel television series, Exploring the
Unknown.
Read
Toward a Type 1 Civilization.
Watch his TEDTalk
Why people believe strange things,
Authors@Google: Michael Shermer,
Reason magazine editor Nick Gillespie
interviews Michael Shermer,
Dr Kent Hovind debates Dr Michael Shermer, and
Charlie Rose with Warren Hoge; Charles S. Dutton; Michael
Shermer.
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