The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
Michael Shermer
Quotes by Michael Shermer
Read passages from his book
The Science of Good and Evil
at the Rational Atheist Book Club
From Wikipedia
Michael Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale, California)
is a science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society,
and editor of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating
and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.
Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television
series "Exploring the Unknown" and since April 2004 is a monthly
columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column.
Shermer was once a fundamentalist Christian, but according to his book
The Science of Good and Evil, is now an agnostic and an advocate for
humanist philosophy.
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Books and Other Writings by
Michael Shermer
How Thinking Goes Wrong: Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things
Deconstructing
The Dead
Cross Over One Last Time To Expose Medium John Edward
The
Flipping Point
How the evidence for anthropogenic global warming has converged to cause
this environmental skeptic to make a cognitive flip
The
(Other) Secret
The inverse square law trumps the law of attraction
Bad
Apples and Bad Barrels
Lessons in Evil from Stanford to Abu Ghraib
Bush's
Mistake and Kennedy's Error
Self-deception proves itself to be more powerful than deception
• Teach
Your Child Science 1989
• Teach
Your Child Math and Mathemagics 1999
• The
Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense 2001
• How
We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science 2001
• The
Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience (ed.) 2002
• Denying
History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?
2002
•
In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical
Study on the Psychology of History 2002
• Why
People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions
of Our Time. (2nd Revision edition) 2002
• The
Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow
the Golden Rule 2004
• Science
Friction : Where the Known Meets the Unknown 2005
• Secrets
of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and
Amazing Math Tricks 2006
• Why
Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design 2006
“The Bible has written all over it, the fact that it was a human-edited, socially constructed collection of books put together by people over many, many centuries.”
Articles and Links on Michael Shermer
The
joys of life without God
by Kevin Berger
Skeptics Society founder Michael Shermer explains why Darwin matters,
how believing in God is the same as believing in astrology, and why
it doesn't take divine faith to experience something bigger than ourselves.
The
Great Afterlife Debate:
Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra
v. Michael Shermer:
The Value of Skepticism
TED Talks Michael Shermer: Why people believe strange things
Michael Shermer Interviews
The Bookshelf talks with Michael Shermer
Michael
Shermer: A Skeptic in a Credulous World
by Rusty Pipes
Interview at American Scientist Online
TNI's Interview with Michael Schermer
Science,
semi-science and nonsense
A professional skeptic talks about what's real science (evolution, the
Big Bang), what's balderdash (ESP, Creationism) and what lies between
(hypnotism, superstring theory).
by Suzy Hansen
Interview at Adventures Underground
Videos on Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer Out of Body Experiment
Michael Shermer Tests Acupuncture
Michael Shermer comments on John Edward
CNN discussion with Michael Shermer vs William Dembski
Cato Events - Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design
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