Michael Shermer Lecturer: "The Believing Brain: From Ghosts & Gods to Politics & Conspiracies--How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce them as Truths"

Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of The Skeptic magazine and a regular columnist for Scientific American.

How are beliefs formed?  Why are they so resistant to contrary evidence?  How do the mold ideas about religion, politics, good and evil?

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