DR. MICHAEL SHERMER is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, a contributing editor and monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Lecture Series at Caltech, and the cohost and producer of the thirteen-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. He is the author of In Darwin’s Shadow, about the life and science of the codiscoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace; The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience; and Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of historical distortion. The first two books in his trilogy on belief are Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God.
Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, his M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University. He lives in southern California.