• Michael Shermer
• Publisher, Skeptic magazine

• Speaking at TED2010
• February 2010
• Long Beach, CA

The pattern behind self-deception : Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.