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The Michael Shermer Show

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.

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50 episodes

May 17, 2025•—

Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization

May 20, 2025•—

Inside the CIA's Mind Control Experiments

May 24, 2025•—

Believing Is Seeing: Inside the Modern Paranormal Movement

May 27, 2025•—

The Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins

May 31, 2025•—

The Myths of American Capitalism Explained

Jun 10, 2025•—

Andrew Doyle: Trapped Between Woke Dogma and Right-Wing Populism

Jun 17, 2025•—

The Science Behind Menopause

Jun 25, 2025•—

Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife

Jul 1, 2025•—

Can Politics and Truth Coexist?

Jul 8, 2025•—

Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution

Jul 14, 2025•—

Debra Soh and Michael Shermer at FreedomFest 2025

Jul 15, 2025•—

The True Cost of Conviction

Jul 22, 2025•—

Are We Alone? Martin Rees on Aliens, The Fermi Paradox & The Fate of Humanity

Jul 29, 2025•—

Drowning in Decisions: Do We Have Too Many Choices?

Aug 5, 2025•—

Is Traditional Religion Doomed?

Aug 11, 2025•—

Why the Left Needs Its Own Reckoning

Aug 12, 2025•—

Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet?

Aug 18, 2025•—

Can We Prevent Aging? Eric Topol on Genes, Lifestyle, and AI in Healthcare

Aug 19, 2025•—

How Foreign Governments Influence U.S. Universities

Aug 26, 2025•—

Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion

Aug 30, 2025•—

Depopulation: The Silent Global Emergency

Sep 2, 2025•—

Why Do Humans Speak?

Sep 6, 2025•—

The Future of Space Exploration Amid NASA Mission Shutdowns

Sep 9, 2025•—

How to Protect Children from Social Media and AI

Sep 13, 2025•—

The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics

Sep 17, 2025•—

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Shermer Reflects on Political Violence

Sep 20, 2025•—

Jim Lampley on Hosting the Super Bowl, Calling Tyson's Fights, and His Friendship with O.J.

Sep 23, 2025•—

The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment

Sep 27, 2025•—

COVID-19: What We Learned (and Didn't) About Masks, Lockdowns, and Vaccines

Sep 30, 2025•—

Was Benjamin Franklin America's First Scientist?

Oct 5, 2025•—

Why No One Thinks They're in a Cult

Oct 7, 2025•—

The Science of Revenge: Why Getting Even Feels So Good

Oct 11, 2025•—

When Rationality Becomes Irrational

Oct 13, 2025•—

Shermer Says: Debate Skills, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Autism, Vaccines, ANTIFA, Bari Weiss & CBS News

Oct 15, 2025•—

The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations

Oct 18, 2025•—

Shermer Says: Why Secularists Are Turning to Religion, The Substitution Hypothesis, Sleep Paralysis

Oct 21, 2025•—

The Myth of Human Exceptionalism: Why Humans Aren't as Special as We Think

Oct 25, 2025•—

Charles Murray: Why I'm Taking Religion Seriously

Nov 1, 2025•—

Did Lost Civilizations Really Exist? An Archaeologist Explains

Nov 4, 2025•—

A Former Spy Explains How AI is Changing Espionage

Nov 8, 2025•—

Shermer Says 3: Weird Experiences, the Meaning of Dreams, and What Mark Twain Knew About Reality

Nov 11, 2025•—

Tribes, Teams, and Cults: How Groups Shape What We Believe

Nov 16, 2025•—

The Psychology of War: Could YOU Make a Moral Choice in Wartime?

Nov 18, 2025•—

Logic, Creativity, and the Limits of AI: How Humans Think in Ways Machines Never Will

Nov 22, 2025•—

Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)

Nov 29, 2025•—

Cosmology, Creation, and the Evidence for God

Dec 2, 2025•—

Are We Meant to Leave Earth? Why Humanity May Have No Choice but to Go to Space

Dec 6, 2025•—

The Emergent Mind: From Ant Colonies to Human Thought to Artificial Intelligence

Dec 8, 2025•—

Why Wars Last Longer Than Experts Predict

Dec 13, 2025•—

The Michael Shermer Show

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