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SUMMARY:WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS, FEATURING DR. MICHAEL SHERMER
DESCRIPTION:WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS, FEATURING DR. MICHAEL SHE
 RMER\n\nFriday, October 2, 7pm\nJ.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sci
 ences Building, University of Toronto (1 King's College Circle)\n\nEve
 r wonder why people believe in UFO abductions, mind-reading, reincarna
 tion, urban legends, not to mention \"scientific creationism\" and the
  pernicious myth that the Holocaust never happened?\n\nDr. Michael She
 rmer, the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, is a genuine ghost-b
 uster, a relentless crusader against superstition and pseudoscience. B
 ased on his bestselling book, Why People Believe Weird Things, Dr Sher
 mer’s lecture will debunk junk science, bad science, voodoo science,
  pathological science, pseudoscience, and plain old nonsense. The even
 t will be filled with humour,insight, and personal anecdotes - a highl
 y entertaining wake-up call that has proved a hit on college campuses.
 \n\nDr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine,
  the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist f
 or Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science
  Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Clar
 emont Graduate University.\n\nAdmission\n$8 regular, $5 students and C
 entre for Inquiry Members\nThis event is FREE to New and Renewing Cent
 re for Inquiry members and\none guest.\n\nVisit the event webpage at h
 ttp://tinyurl.com/ntssw7 or contact 416-971-5676 or jtrottier@centerfo
 rinquiry.net\n\nBiography of Michael Shermer\n\nDr. Shermer’s latest
  book is The Mind of the Market, on evolutionary economics. His last b
 ook was Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent
  Design, and he is the author of Science Friction: Where the Known Mee
 ts the Unknown, about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong. 
 His book The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share
  Care, and Follow the Golden Rule, is on the evolutionary origins of m
 orality and how to be good without God. He wrote a biography, In Darwi
 n’s Shadow, about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natur
 al selection, Alfred Russel Wallace. He also wrote The Borderlands of 
 Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and D
 enying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of pseudohistory. 
 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 is also the author of Why People Believe Weird Things on ps
 eudoscience, superstitions, and other confusions of our time.\n\nDr. S
 hermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A
 . in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullert
 on, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate Un
 iversity (1991). He was a college professor for 20 years (1979–1998)
 , teaching psychology, evolution, and the history of science at Occide
 ntal College (1989–1998), California State University Los Angeles, a
 nd Glendale College. Since his creation of the Skeptics Society, Skept
 ic magazine, and the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at 
 Caltech, he has appeared on such shows as The Colbert Report, 20/20, D
 ateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, Donahue, Oprah, Le
 zza, Unsolved Mysteries (but, proudly, never Jerry Springer!), and oth
 er shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, as well as in
 terviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The 
 History Channel, The Science Channel, and The Learning Channel. Sherme
 r was the co-host and co-producer of the 13-hour Family Channel televi
 sion series, Exploring the Unknown.\n\nFor more information visit http
 ://www.atheistnexus.org/events/why-people-believe-weird
DTSTART;TZID=America/Cancun:20091002T190000
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CATEGORIES:educational
LOCATION:J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, Univers
 ity of Toronto
WEBSITE:http://tinyurl.com/ntssw7
URL:http://tinyurl.com/ntssw7
CONTACT:416-971-5676
ORGANIZER;CN="Centre For Inquiry - Ontario":http://www.atheistnexus.or
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