Description: Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the Science Salon Podcast, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, and Heavens on Earth. His new book is Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific
Generic selectors Exact matches only Search in title Search in content Post Type Selectors Filter by Categories Articles Media Scientific American Follow @michaelshermer Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine , the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show , and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American . He writes a weekly Substack column. He is the author of New York Times bests
This book is a must read for understanding conspiracy theories, who believes them and why, and how to counter them.
When author Michael Shermer saw the video of a middle-aged man named Kevin Seefried walking across the rotunda in the Capitol Building dome on January 6, 2021, proudly waving a large Confederate flag representing bigotry and hate, he could not help but wonder, “What went wrong with this man's beliefs?”
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