That's Incredible!

摘要

Short of Penn and possibly Teller, Michael Shermer is America's most famous skeptic. Years before it was trendy to be an atheist-with-opinions, Shermer was a ruthless public advocate for science and reason and a vigorous debunker of superstitious and religious myths. For decades, he has been the go-to nonbeliever on television talk shows and documentaries, and in the "Prologue" of The Believing Brain, Shermer likens his mission to that of skeptical host Leonard Nimoy in the 1970s television series In Search of... In the book, Shermer seeks to advance "not just a theory to explain why people believe weird things" (been there, done that) but "a theory to explain why people believe things. Full stop."