Alumni Award, 2002 NCAS Philip J. Klass Award, October 2006 Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Whittier College, 2008 Independent Investigations Group, 10th Anniversary Gala award, 2010 Bibliography Shermer, Michael (2022). Conspiracy – Why the Rational Believe the Irrational. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421444451. Media work and appearances Television Exploring the Unknown (1999) "Michael Shermer and Out of Body Experiences" "Michael Shermer on How to Fake UFO Photographs" "Michael Shermer on Spoonbending" "Michael Shermer Firewalking Across Hot Coals" "Michael Shermer Tests the Polygraph and Lie Detection", Parts 1 & 2 "Michael Shermer Learns the Art of Con Games", Parts 1 & 2 "Michael Shermer Decodes the Bible Code" "Michael Shermer Explores Graphology/Handwriting Analysis", Parts 1 & 2 "Michael Shermer Remote Viewing Experiment", Parts 1 & 2 Other television and film appearances August 1983 news segment on Shermer bicycling in Race Across America Unsolved Mysteries, James Van Praagh segment, 1994 The Phil Donahue Show, 1994 Charlie Rose, April 1996 "The Power of Belief", ABC News, 1998 Politically Incorrect, December 22, 2000 20/20, December 5, 2003 Dennis Miller, May 19 and May 20, 2004 "The Bible: Fact or Fiction?", Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, 2004 The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis, 2004 The Eyes of Nye on "Pseudoscience", 2005 The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, October 4, 2006 "Doomsday 2012", Decoding the Past, 2007 Larry King Live, July 13, 2007 and January 24, 2008 Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, 2008 "Does God Have a Future?", Nightline, ABC, March 23, 2010 "What Were You Thinking?", Dateline NBC, April 25, 2010 "Did You See That?", Dateline NBC, July 16, 2010 The Colbert Report, August 21, 2007 The Colbert Report, July 11, 2011 Paranormal Challenge, Linda Vista Hospital, August 26, 2011 Conspiracy Road Trip: UFOs, BBC Three, 15 October 2012 Stossel, Fox Business Channel, December 13, 2012 The Agenda with Steve Paikin Feb 28, 2013 "The Anti-Science Left" StarTalk, National Geographic Channel, November 15, 2015 Radio and Web appearances Coast to Coast AM, September 1, 2007 and May 21, 2011 Mr. Deity and the Skeptic. YouTube. September 15, 2009 Mr. Deity and the Believing Brain. YouTube. August 3, 2011 The Rubin Report, January 22, 2016 The Joe Rogan Experience, March 7, 2016, September 14, 2016, May 16, 2017, January 24, 2018, January 10, 2019 References External links 1954 births 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century