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Michael Shermer (Michael Brant Shermer) was born on 8 September, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American science writer (born 1954). Discover Michael Shermer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

Popular As Michael Brant Shermer
Occupation writer, historian of science, editor
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 8 September 1954
Birthday 8 September
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1954

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims.

The author of over a dozen books, Shermer is known for engaging in debates on pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.

Michael Brant Shermer was born on September 8, 1954, in Los Angeles, California.

He is partly of Greek and German ancestry.

Shermer was raised in Southern California, primarily in the La Cañada Flintridge area.

His parents divorced when he was four and later remarried.

He has a step-sister, two step-brothers, and two half-sisters.

Shermer attended Sunday school but said he was otherwise raised in a non religious household.

1971

He began his senior year of high school in 1971, when the evangelical movement in the United States was growing in popularity.

At the behest of a friend, Shermer embraced Christianity.

He attended the Presbyterian Church in Glendale, California and observed a sermon delivered by a "dynamic and histrionic preacher" who encouraged him to come forward to be saved.

For seven years, Shermer evangelized door-to-door.

He also attended an informal Christian fellowship at "The Barn" in La Crescenta, California, where he described enjoying the social aspects of religion, especially the theological debates.

1972

In 1972, he graduated from Crescenta Valley High School and enrolled at Pepperdine University, intending to pursue Christian theology.

Shermer changed majors to psychology once he learned a doctorate in theology required proficiency in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Aramaic.

1976

He completed his BA in psychology at Pepperdine in 1976.

Shermer went on to study experimental psychology at California State University, Fullerton.

Discussions with his professors, along with studies in the natural and social sciences, led him to question his religious beliefs.

Fueled by what he perceived to be the intolerance generated by the absolute morality taught in his religious studies; the hypocrisy in what many believers preached and what they practiced; and a growing awareness of other religious beliefs that were determined by the temporal, geographic, and cultural circumstances in which their adherents were born, he abandoned his religious views halfway through graduate school.

Shermer attributed the paralysis of his college girlfriend as a key point when he lost faith.

After she was in an automobile accident that broke her back and rendered her paralyzed from the waist down, Shermer relayed, "If anyone deserved to be healed it was her, and nothing happened, so I just thought there was probably no God at all."

1978

He earned an MA degree in psychology from California State University, Fullerton in 1978.

After earning his MA in experimental psychology in 1978, Shermer worked as a writer for a bicycle magazine in Irvine, California.

He took up bicycle racing after his first assignment, a Cycles Peugeot press conference, He completed a century ride (100 miles) and started to ride hundreds of miles a week.

1979

Shermer began competitive cycling in 1979 and rode professionally for ten years, primarily in long distance ultramarathon road racing.

He is a founding member of the Ultra Cycling Hall of Fame.

Shermer worked with cycling technologists in developing better products for the sport.

During his association with Bell Helmets, a bicycle-race sponsor, he advised them on design issues regarding expanded-polystyrene for use in cycling helmets, which would absorb greater impact than the old leather "hairnet" helmets used by bicyclists for decades.

Shermer advised them that if their helmets looked too much like motorcycle helmets, in which polystyrene was already being used, and not like the old hairnet helmets, no serious cyclists or amateur would use them.

This suggestion led to their model, the V1 Pro, which looked like a black leather hairnet, but functioned on the inside like a motorcycle helmet.

1982

In 1982, he worked with Wayman Spence, whose small supply company, Spenco Medical, adapted the gel technology Spence developed for bedridden patients with pressure sores into cycling gloves and saddles to alleviate the carpal tunnel syndrome and saddle sores suffered by cyclists.

While a long distance racer, he helped to found the 3,000-mile nonstop transcontinental bicycle Race Across America (known as "RAAM", along with Lon Haldeman and John Marino), in which he competed five times (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, and 1989), was an assistant race director for six years, and the executive race director for seven years.

An acute medical condition is named for him: "Shermer's Neck" is pain in and extreme weakness of the neck muscles found among long-distance bicyclists.

1983

Shermer suffered the condition about 2,000 miles into the 1983 Race Across America.

1999

Shermer was the co-producer and co-host of Exploring the Unknown, a 13-hour Fox Family television series broadcast in 1999.

2001

From April 2001 to January 2019, he contributed a monthly Skeptic column to Scientific American magazine.

Shermer was raised in a non-religious household, before converting to Christian fundamentalism as a teenager.

He stopped believing in God during graduate school, influenced by a traumatic accident that left his then-girlfriend paralyzed.

He identifies as an agnostic and an atheist, but prefers "skeptic".

He also advocates for humanism.