Dr. Michael Shermer is the publisher of
Skeptic magazine and the director of the Skeptics Society. He has authored several excellent books on
pseudoscience,
historical revisionism and
skepticism. His most popular book is the pithily titled
Why People Believe Weird Things. His other books include
Denying History,
How We Believe and
The Borderlands of Science. He also now has a
column in
Scientific American magazine.
Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State Univesity, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate School.