Skeptic Magazine Founder to Speak at UW Thursday |
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April 4, 2005 -- Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, will speak Thursday, April 7, from 1 2 p.m. in the University of Wyoming College of Education auditorium.
The final guest in the UW Graduate School's Distinguished Speaker Series, Shermer is a nationally known author who has written several books that debate the merits of anything pseudoscientific.
He is the author of "In Darwin's Shadow," about the life and science of the co discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. Shermer also wrote "The Borderlands of Science," about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and "Denying History," on Holocaust denial and other forms of historical distortion. His book "How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God," presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God.
He also is the director of the Skeptics Society, writes a monthly column for Scientific American, hosts the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and produced the 13 hour Fox Family television series, "Exploring the Unknown."
Shermer has appeared on numerous television shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, and has been interviewed for many documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel and The Learning Channel.
He received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University.
For more information, call Missy Samp, assistant to the Graduate School dean, at (307) 766 3795.
Posted on Monday, April 04, 2005
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