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He wrote 214 consecutive monthly columns for Scientific American. He appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Oprah, and Larry King Live (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!). He has been a college professor since 1979, also teaching at Occidental College, Glendale College, and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught a transdisciplinary course for Ph.D.
His two TED talks, seen by millions, were voted in the top 100.
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Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. Just look around: Massive corporations monitor our every move.
Reason, empiricism and skepticism are not virtues of science alone
In the late 20th century the humanities took a turn toward postmodern deconstruction and the belief that there is no objective reality to be discovered.
He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, Giving the Devil His Due, and Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.
He is the author of Don’t Burn This Book, which was a New York Times bestseller, and the co-founder of the community building platform Locals.
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Michael Shermer is a beacon of reason
in an ocean of irrationality.
—Neil deGrasse Tyson
Michael regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to: the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications.
Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine and the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality and Utopia.
Shermer regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays, and reviews to the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Science, Nature, and other publications.
Dr. Shermer was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series, Exploring the Unknown. In 1996 New York University physicist Alan Sokal punctured these pretensions with his now famous article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,” chockablock full of postmodern phrases and deconstructionist tropes interspersed with scientific jargon, which he subsequently admitted were nonsensical gibberish.
I subsequently gave up on the humanities but am now reconsidering my position after an encounter this past March with University of Amsterdam humanities professor Rens Bod during a European book tour for The Moral Arc.
the dystopian future we've been warned of is here.
Dave Rubin has been on the front lines of the culture wars for years. In our dialogue, Bod pointed out that my definition of science—a set of methods that describes and interprets observed or inferred phenomena, past or present, aimed at testing hypotheses and building theories—applies to such humanities fields as philology, art history, musicology, linguistics, archaeology, historiography and literary studies.
To believe in such quaint notions as scientific progress was to be guilty of “scientism,” properly said with a snarl. He has been a college professor since 1979, also teaching at Occidental College, Glendale College, and Claremont Graduate University, where he taught a transdisciplinary course for Ph.D. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A.
in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. For 30 years he taught college and university courses in critical thinking, and for 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. The Thought Police stand ready to cancel any who dare think for themselves.