Michael Shermer

The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

Despite our best efforts, we're all vulnerable to believing things without using logic or having proper evidence....

UFO abductions, television psychics, paranormal phenomena, skeptics and believers alike, find themselves debating truths and lies in the strange web of pseudoscience and the occult...

The world’s best known skeptic and critical thinker presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished....

Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them....

Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans' belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality by radical life extentionists, extropians, transhumanists....

In Science Friction, best-selling author and Skeptic magazine publisher Michael Shermer pretends to be a psychic for a day and fools everyone....

Who is the "Devil"? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own....

Recent polls report that 96-percent of Americans believe in God, and 73-percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth....

Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates into moral primates and how and why morality motivates the human animal....

Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims....

The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life....

An eclectic, inspiring collection exploring a broad range of scientific thought from best-selling author and celebrated skeptic Michael Shermer....

Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one's place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond ourselves....

Michael Shermer argues that Intelligent Design proponents invoke a combination of ad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology in their new brand of creationism....

Michael Shermer’s most accomplished and ambitious book to date demonstrates how the scientific way of thinking has made people, and society as a whole, more moral....

This is a sweeping look at science, its history and philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present, with special emphasis on defining science within the cultural context of the age....

Incorporating his own thoughts along with those of noted academics, philosophers, and theologians, Loftus is able to properly define "miracle" and then show why there's no reason to believe such a thing even exists....

In his college war course, Dr. Shermer mixes straight narrative history with science, philosophy, and theory as to the causes and solutions to war....

Neste revelador Audible Original, o professor Michael Shermer, editor da revista Skeptic e apresentador do podcast Science Salon, traz a você algumas das teorias conspiratórias mais difundidas da história....