Michael Shermer

My libertarian beliefs have not always served me well. Like most people who hold strong ideological convictions, I find that, too often, my beliefs trump the scientific facts.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the questions... And I could never believe blindly.