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Michael Shermer

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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.


— Michael Shermer


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We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.


— Michael Shermer


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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.


— Michael Shermer


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In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.


— Michael Shermer


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Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.


— Michael Shermer


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Shermer is the author of several books that attempt to explain the ubiquity of irrational or poorly substantiated beliefs including UFOs Bigfoot and paranormal claims. Shermer states he was once a fundamentalist Christian but converted from a belief in God during his graduate studies and has described himself as an agnosticnontheistatheist and advocate for humanist philosophy as well as the science of morality. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55000 members.

Shermer also engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he promulgates the need for scientific skepticism. Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family (now ABC Family) television series Exploring the Unknown. Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8 1954) is an American science writer historian of science founder of The Skeptics Society and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

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