“I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.”

Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of skeptic magazine, host of the Michael Shermer show and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches skepticism 101. His bestselling works include Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain and Why Darwin Matters.

he has spent his career popularising skepticism as a method to search for truth in the media. He regularly contributes opinion editorials, essays and reviews to the Wall St Journal, Science, Nature and Scientific American. His two Ted talks were voted in the top 100 by viewers.

"Michael Shermer is a beacon of reason
in an ocean of irrationality."
—Neil deGrasse Tyson

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