DR. MICHAEL SHERMER: Why People Believe Weird Things; The Science of Good & Evil; Does God Exist? - Wolfman Productions

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Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
 
Dr. Shermer's latest book is The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary economics. His last book was Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design, and he is the author of Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown, about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong. His book The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share Care, and Follow the Golden Rule, is on the evolutionary origins of morality and how to be good without God. He wrote a biography, In Darwin's Shadow, about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. He also wrote The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of pseudohistory. His book How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God, presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God. He is also the author of Why People Believe Weird Things on pseudoscience, superstitions, and other confusions of our time.
 



According to the late Stephen Jay Gould (from his Foreword to Why People Believe Weird Things): “Michael Shermer, as head of one of America's leading skeptic organizations, and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life.”
 
Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University (1991). He was a college professor for 20 years (1979-1998), teaching psychology, evolution, and the history of science at Occidental College (1989-1998), California State University Los Angeles, and Glendale College. Since his creation of the Skeptics Society, Skeptic magazine, and the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, he has appeared on such shows as 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Lezza, Unsolved Mysteries, and other shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, as well as interviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown.

Visit Dr. Shermer's website: www.michaelshermer.com

 


Topics Include:

  • The Mind ofthe Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Lessons from Evolutionary Economics

  • Why People Believe Weird Things

  • The Science Of Good & Evil

  • The Flipping Point: The Conversion of a Global Warming Skeptic

  • Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design, & the Battle for Science & Religion

  • Why People Believe in God

  • Does God Exist? A Debate with Dr. Doug Geivett

  • The Debate Over Intelligent Design Theory


Testimonials:

"It was absolutely fantastic! It is was probably the best presentation I've seen in my four years at this University. The place was packed and his performance was very entertaining as well as informative."
- Utah State University 

"...I loved it. It was terrific to see you in action, and I, and the rest of the audience I'm sure, could have stayed in our seats indefinitely.... The topics were utterly absorbing."
- Santa Clara University

"Everything went great for Dr. Shermer's visit and talk - we had a crowd of about 550. We absolutely packed our student union ballroom (glad I had ordered extra chairs)".
- Minnesota State University/Moorhead

"It went fabulously! He is great both on stage and off. We loved working with him and the audience loved what he had to say."
- Michele Troop, Inman News Real Estate Connect, New York, 2008


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