Michael Shermer

Michael Brant Shermer (* 8. september 1954, Glendale, Kalifornia, USA) je americký historik vedy.

Preslávil sa najmä ako zakladateľ The Skeptics Society, ktorá bojuje proti pseudovedám a iracionalizmu. Je šéfredaktorom jej časopisu Skeptic. Spoločnosť aj časopis Shermer založil v roku 1992, k roku 2008 mala už 55 tisíc členov a pobočky po celom svete. Označuje sa za ateistu a humanistu.

Bibliografia 
 Sport Cycling: A Guide to Training, Racing, and Endurance 1985
 Cycling: Endurance and Speed ​​(Sportsperformance) 1987
 Teach Your Child Science 1989 
 Why People Believe Weird Things: pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (1997) 
 Teach Your Child Math and Mathemagics 1999 
 The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense 2001 
 How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science 2001 
 The Skeptic Encyclopedia of pseudoscience (ed) 2002 
 Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? 2002
 In Darwin 's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Biographical Study on the Psychology of History 2002 
 The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, porno, and Follow the Golden Rule 2004 
 Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown 2005 
 Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician 's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks 2006 
 Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design 2006 
 The Mind of The Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics 2007 
 The History of Science: A Sweeping Visage of Science and its History 2009 
 The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies-How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths 2011

Externé odkazy 
 Oficiálna stránka
 Profil na stránkach organizácie TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
 Portrét na stránkach Atheist Revolution

Zdroj 

Novinári USA
Historici USA
Ateisti USA
Osobnosti z Glendale (Kalifornia)