Michael Shermer Audio & Video

Many people have difficulty figuring out the difference between science, borderline science, and just plain nonsense....

Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims....

This is a sweeping look at science, its history and philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present, with special emphasis on defining science within the cultural context of the age....

Why is it that, despite the rise of "godless" science, technology, and secular education, people are turning to religion in greater numbers than ever before?...

Recent polls report that 96-percent of Americans believe in God, and 73-percent believe that angels regularly visit Earth....

Michael Shermer discusses his book "Mind of the Market". How did we evolve from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumer-traders? Why are people so irrational when it comes to money and business?

Michael Shermer discusses his newest book The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.

Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.

Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, argues Why Darwin Matters: Evolution, Intelligent Design and the Battle for Science and Religion in this talk presented by the Division of Biological Sciences and the Helen Edison Lecture Series at the University of California, San Diego.

The Mind of the Market will change the way we think about the economics of everyday life....