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Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. Since April 2004, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Once a fundamentalist Christian, Shermer now describes himself as an agnostic nontheist and an advocate for humanist philosophy. more info: http://us.macmillan.com/author/michae... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael\_...
What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters
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Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
2022
Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
2020
What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
2019
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
2018
Viewing the World with a Rational Eye
2016
How Science Makes Us Better People
2014
How to Think like a Scientist
2013
From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
2011
Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics
2007
The Case Against Intelligent Design
2006
2006
Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
2004
Where the Known Meets the Unknown
2004
2002
The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace
2002
Where Sense Meets Nonsense
2001
Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened & Why Do They Say It?
2000
The Search for God in an Age of Science
1999
Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
1997
Making Science Fun for the Both of You
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