For fifteen years, Michael Shermer has written a column for Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep ...

Michael Shermer is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and eight other books on the history and evolution of human beliefs and behavior. He is the founding publisher of ...

"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic ...

Dr. Michael Shermer once thought he was being abducted by aliens, a strange thing to happen to a professional skeptic. But it was just a hallucination that was the result of sleep deprivation when he ...

Dr. Shermer shared the inspiration for the book, as well as what's fueling the obsession for immortality. He'll discuss and sign copies of Heavens on Earth, tonight at 7:00 pm at Elliott Bay Book ...

The public is invited to a free lecture Wednesday titled “The Believing Brain” by Dr. Michael Shermer. Presented by the College of Engineering, Forestry and Natural Sciences the talk is this year’s ...

Mrs. J.P. (Edyce) Shermer passed away on March 15, 2016. Edyce was born in Little Rock Jan. 1, 1924 to Myrtle Booker Taylor and Edgar Taylor. She attended Henderson College and worked as a ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Michael Shermer is a Founding Publisher for the Skeptic Magazine with 23 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Forum as an Executive Director for ...

Why the Founding Fathers Wouldn’t Have Been Anti-Vaxxers Look to the 18th-century philosophers who created the modern world The long view of race relations and the law in America As Thanksgiving ...