In particular he points us to this book:
The Borderlands of Science:
Where Sense meets nonsense
Michael Shermer
Oxford University Press 2001
ISBN: 019-514326-4
From Shermer's own website:
Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Executive Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University.
Penn Jillette's devotion to Shermer's brand of Randite cultism didn't keep him from becoming a climate denialist - it pushed him in that direction.
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Shermer was a global warming skeptic himself for quite some time - until just a few years ago, if I recall correctly.
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Shermer publicly recanted right before holding "an international conference on the science and politics of the environment at Caltech June 2 to 4, 2006" - www.environmentalwars.org
- featuring John Stossel and Michael Crichton as special guests.
(I was curious and poked around a bit - and found the Skeptic Society's 2006 tax return is missing from Guidestar, which seemed odd; but the IRS says it _was_ filed.)
...and Shermer is on the Board of Scientific and Policy Advisors of the American Council on Science and Health.
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