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 

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