Podcast

The Michael Shermer Show

Author: Michael Shermer
Feed episode count: 631
Official site: https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/
RSS: https://sciencesalon.libsyn.com/rss
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Summary

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

Episodes

Jul 11, 2026 · not_requested

The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)

Duration seconds: 3303
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Jul 6, 2026 · not_requested

America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?

Duration seconds: 1037
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Jun 27, 2026 · not_requested

When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity

Duration seconds: 5544
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Jun 23, 2026 · not_requested

Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council

Duration seconds: 1748
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Jun 20, 2026 · not_requested

Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions

Duration seconds: 5635
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Jun 16, 2026 · not_requested

Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech

Duration seconds: 5424
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Jun 13, 2026 · not_requested

The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real

Duration seconds: 5954
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Jun 9, 2026 · not_requested

How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You

Duration seconds: 5658
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Jun 6, 2026 · not_requested

Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now

Duration seconds: 3275
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Jun 3, 2026 · not_requested

From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology

Duration seconds: 3525
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May 29, 2026 · not_requested

Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?

Duration seconds: 3995
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May 26, 2026 · not_requested

Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous

Duration seconds: 5402
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May 19, 2026 · not_requested

Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions

Duration seconds: 3692
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May 16, 2026 · not_requested

Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims

Duration seconds: 4511
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May 14, 2026 · not_requested

From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)

Duration seconds: 4678
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May 11, 2026 · not_requested

The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor

Duration seconds: 4767
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May 8, 2026 · not_requested

The UFO Files Were Declassified Today

Duration seconds: 1880
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May 5, 2026 · not_requested

Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)

Duration seconds: 3864
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May 2, 2026 · not_requested

The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation

Duration seconds: 5910
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Apr 28, 2026 · not_requested

Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi

Duration seconds: 4289
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Apr 24, 2026 · not_requested

Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained

Duration seconds: 943
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Apr 21, 2026 · not_requested

Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.

Duration seconds: 5113
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Apr 18, 2026 · not_requested

Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms

Duration seconds: 4101
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Apr 14, 2026 · not_requested

What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline

Duration seconds: 3489
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Apr 11, 2026 · not_requested

How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity

Duration seconds: 5482
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Apr 8, 2026 · not_requested

What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive

Duration seconds: 5233
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Apr 5, 2026 · not_requested

Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle

Duration seconds: 1150
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Apr 3, 2026 · not_requested

Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z

Duration seconds: 5426
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Mar 31, 2026 · not_requested

The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion

Duration seconds: 4624
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Mar 28, 2026 · not_requested

Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman

Duration seconds: 4340
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Mar 24, 2026 · not_requested

Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West

Duration seconds: 5108
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