āIām a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.ā
Michael Shermer is an acclaimed writer and historian best known for his searing critiques of pseudoscience and the supernatural. Shermer is the founder of The Skeptics Society, the editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, where he teaches Skepticism 101.
Alongside his award-winning podcast, The Michael Shermer Show, his regular magazine contributions and numerous television appearances, Michael is a prolific science writer, whose twenty books include, most recently, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.
"Michael Shermer is a beacon of reason in an ocean of irrationality." Neil deGrasse Tyson