Superstring theory is one of the latest inhabitants of what Shermer (Why People Believe Weird Things, etc.), editor of Skeptic magazine, calls the "borderlands" of ...

Mrs. J.P. (Edyce) Shermer passed away on March 15, 2016. Edyce was born in Little Rock Jan. 1, 1924 to Myrtle Booker Taylor and Edgar Taylor. She attended Henderson College and worked as a ...

Michael Shermer would argue that we’re living in the most moral period in the history of humanity. “Things really are getting better. There’s never been a better time to be alive than now. There’s ...

In Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia, Michael Shermer seeks to explain why so many of us are deeply invested in the idea of a world beyond the one ...

"I think the second-wave feminists I've talked to are very worried about the kind of woke, gender-identity movement because it's reducing women to just body parts," says Michael Shermer. "A guy can ...

As the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, author of Why People Believe Weird Things, and a columnist for Scientific American, Shermer is perhaps the country's best-known skeptic. His position is ...

For fifteen years, Michael Shermer has written a column for Scientific American magazine that synthesizes scientific concepts and theory for a general audience. His trademark combination of deep ...

Michael Shermer, the founder of the Skeptics Society, points to a single event in the late 1970s as his breaking point with the Christianity of his youth. The “final straw,” as he calls it, was ...