# The Michael Shermer Show Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422.md RSS feed: https://sciencesalon.libsyn.com/rss Official site: https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/ Author: Michael Shermer Episodes: 631 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-michael-shermer-show-444422 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422.md ## Episodes - [The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-truth-about-sex-differences-steve-stewart-williams) — 2026-07-11T19:00:00+00:00 - [America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/america-at-250-what-did-the-founders-get-right) — 2026-07-06T17:00:00+00:00 - [When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/when-history-goes-on-trial-demjanjuk-eichmann-and-justice-after-atrocity) — 2026-06-27T19:00:00+00:00 - [Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/why-i-joined-the-government-uap-science-advisory-council) — 2026-06-23T19:00:00+00:00 - [Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/massimo-pigliucci-on-doubt-moral-courage-and-living-without-illusions) — 2026-06-20T16:00:00+00:00 - [Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/cathy-young-why-free-societies-need-free-speech) — 2026-06-16T19:00:00+00:00 - [The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-zodiac-killer-wasn-t-real) — 2026-06-13T19:00:00+00:00 - [How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/how-algorithms-use-your-data-to-control-you) — 2026-06-09T19:00:00+00:00 - [Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/batya-ungar-sargon-why-the-left-sees-jews-differently-now) — 2026-06-06T15:52:00+00:00 - [From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/from-equality-to-equity-how-social-justice-becomes-ideology) — 2026-06-03T18:00:00+00:00 - [Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/can-science-fix-criminal-justice) — 2026-05-29T19:00:00+00:00 - [Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/gad-saad-when-empathy-becomes-dangerous) — 2026-05-26T17:00:00+00:00 - [Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/why-we-cling-to-certainty-conspiracies-and-bad-predictions) — 2026-05-19T19:00:00+00:00 - [Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/neil-degrasse-tyson-on-ufos-government-files-and-the-physics-of-alien-claims) — 2026-05-16T18:15:00+00:00 - [From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/from-newspapers-to-influencers-who-controls-reality-now-ashley-rindsberg) — 2026-05-14T19:00:00+00:00 - [The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-new-war-on-free-speech-why-power-turns-everyone-into-a-censor) — 2026-05-11T18:00:00+00:00 - [The UFO Files Were Declassified Today](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-ufo-files-were-declassified-today) — 2026-05-08T19:00:00+00:00 - [Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/why-everything-falls-apart-and-how-to-keep-it-going-stewart-brand) — 2026-05-05T19:00:00+00:00 - [The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-scientist-who-tried-to-prove-reincarnation) — 2026-05-02T16:00:00+00:00 - [Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/why-do-we-exist-hakeem-oluseyi) — 2026-04-28T17:00:00+00:00 - [Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/shermer-says-9-the-dead-scientists-explained) — 2026-04-24T15:30:00+00:00 - [Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/not-monsters-not-madmen-just-men) — 2026-04-21T17:00:00+00:00 - [Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/flourishing-in-the-age-of-algorithms) — 2026-04-18T17:00:00+00:00 - [What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/what-really-prevents-cognitive-decline) — 2026-04-14T16:00:00+00:00 - [How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/how-christianity-made-america-and-how-america-remade-christianity) — 2026-04-11T17:00:00+00:00 - [What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/what-turns-sand-into-cells-how-nonliving-matter-becomes-alive) — 2026-04-08T22:14:00+00:00 - [Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/shermer-says-8-easter-without-the-miracle) — 2026-04-05T16:00:00+00:00 - [Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/debra-soh-on-why-men-and-women-are-drifting-apart-dating-apps-and-gen-z) — 2026-04-03T16:00:00+00:00 - [The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/the-psychology-of-gaslighting-bullying-cults-and-coercion) — 2026-03-31T19:00:00+00:00 - [Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/did-jesus-really-change-western-morality-bart-ehrman) — 2026-03-28T19:00:00+00:00 - [Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-michael-shermer-show-444422/lionel-shriver-on-immigration-religion-and-the-decline-of-the-west) — 2026-03-24T19:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.