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...

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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. With everyday normal life moving too fast to comprehend, people are turning to the bizarre and wacky for comfort...

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....

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

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

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

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

En este revelador Audible Original, el profesor Michael Shermer, editor de la revista Skeptic y presentador del podcast Salón de la Ciencia, muestra las teorías conspirativas históricamente preponderantes y ayuda a entender cómo y por qué surgieron....

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

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....

As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real...

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....

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....