Michael Shermer

Dr. Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a presidential fellow at Chapman University. He is the author of a number of New York Times bestselling books including: Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for Immortality, the Afterlife, and Utopia, The Moral Arc, The Believing Brain, Why People Believe Weird Things, Why Darwin Matters, The Mind of the Market, How We Believe, and The Science of Good and Evil. His two TED talks, viewed over 8 million times, were voted in the top 100 of the more than 2000 TED talks. Dr. Shermer received his BA in psychology from Pepperdine University, MA in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his PhD in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University.