Michael Shermer

El profesor Michael Shermer muestra las teorías conspirativas históricamente preponderantes y ayuda a entender cómo y por qué surgieron, quiénes eran propensos a creer en ellas y perpetuarlas y qué hay en realidad detrás de todas esas creencias....

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...

A clear-eyed look at thinking straight in a world crowded with noise, bias, and misinformation. “Fake news.” “Alternative facts.” “Post-truth.” Misinformation is everywhere, sparking public confusion and polarization. In Truth, best-selling author Michael Shermer cuts through the...

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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

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...