Last summer I saw by chance a presentation by dr. Michael Shermer on TED.com (Technology, Entertainment, Design). Shermer presents himself a the founder of the Skeptic society and editor-in-chief of Skeptic Magazine. The Skeptic Society is a non-profit organisation, consisting of academics, scientists, historians, magicians and volunteers who are interested in reseaching and investigating controversial ideas, extraordinary claims, revolutionary ideas and the advancement of science. The mission of the Skeptic Society is to investigate controversial ideas and to reveal pseudo science. Everybody is invited to contribute. As Shermer says in his speech: We are the debunk squad of pseudo, voodoo, junk and bad science.
Michael Shermer’s main activity is to expose pseudo-science and supernatural claims. He writes books, articles (for Scientific American) and columns and debates adversaries. He collaborated with people like James Randi, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Pinker and appears regularly on tv and internet.
One of the great tools the Skeptic Society developed to discern fact from fiction is inspired on the work of the great American scientist and skeptic Carl Sagan. It is called the Baloney Detection Kit. A sure way to ask skeptical questions.
Shermer is well know in the United States and fhis star is rising in Europe. A full interview with him can be read on Managementsite.com.
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