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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
Dr. Michael Shermer 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.
Dr. Shermer’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.
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