I have mixed feelings about psychologist, science writer, historian, founder of the Skeptics Society and editor of Skeptic magazine Michael Shermer. I respect his work: His numerous books and columns ...

A colleague of mine once explained to me why he keeps away from Scientology stories at his publication (which will remain nameless). He wasn’t concerned about the church’s reputation for litigiousness ...

Dr. Michael Shermer once thought he was being abducted by aliens, a strange thing to happen to a professional skeptic. But it was just a hallucination that was the result of sleep deprivation when he ...

"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic ...