Would You Want to Know If You Were Wrong?
The Michael Shermer Show
1:38:27Sep 28, 2026
The Michael Shermer Show
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Does Consciousness Break the Laws of Physics?
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Jared Diamond: How Much Can One Person Change History?
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Why America Failed to Stop 9/11 | Gerald Posner & Michael Shermer
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42:49Sep 11, 2026
Why Be Honest When Cheating Pays?
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1:45:08Sep 9, 2026
Is the Future Unknowable? Uncertainty, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
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1:23:41Sep 1, 2026
Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them
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1:13:53Aug 25, 2026
Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity
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1:18:04Aug 18, 2026
Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong
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1:57:21Aug 11, 2026
Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity
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1:22:49Aug 5, 2026
Can You Trust Wikipedia? Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's Bias and Why He Was Banned
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2:03:46Jul 30, 2026
How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism
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1:04:04Jul 18, 2026
The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)
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55:03Jul 11, 2026
America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?
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17:17Jul 6, 2026
When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity
The Michael Shermer Show
1:32:24Jun 27, 2026
Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council
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29:08Jun 23, 2026
Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions
The Michael Shermer Show
1:33:55Jun 20, 2026
Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech
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1:30:24Jun 16, 2026
The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real
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1:39:14Jun 13, 2026
How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You
The Michael Shermer Show
1:34:18Jun 9, 2026
Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now
The Michael Shermer Show
54:35Jun 6, 2026
From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology
The Michael Shermer Show
58:45Jun 3, 2026
Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?
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1:06:35May 29, 2026
Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous
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1:30:02May 26, 2026
Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions
The Michael Shermer Show
1:01:32May 19, 2026
Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims
The Michael Shermer Show
1:15:11May 16, 2026
From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg)
The Michael Shermer Show
1:17:58May 14, 2026
The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor
The Michael Shermer Show
1:19:27May 11, 2026
The UFO Files Were Declassified Today
The Michael Shermer Show
31:20May 8, 2026
Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand)
The Michael Shermer Show
1:04:24May 5, 2026
The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation
The Michael Shermer Show
1:38:30May 2, 2026
Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi
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1:11:29Apr 28, 2026
Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained
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15:43Apr 24, 2026
Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.
The Michael Shermer Show
1:25:13Apr 21, 2026
Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms
The Michael Shermer Show
1:08:21Apr 18, 2026
What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline
The Michael Shermer Show
58:09Apr 14, 2026
How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity
The Michael Shermer Show
1:31:22Apr 11, 2026
What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive
The Michael Shermer Show
1:27:13Apr 8, 2026
Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle
The Michael Shermer Show
19:10Apr 5, 2026
Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z
The Michael Shermer Show
1:30:26Apr 3, 2026
The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion
The Michael Shermer Show
1:17:04Mar 31, 2026
Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman
The Michael Shermer Show
1:12:20Mar 28, 2026
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West
The Michael Shermer Show
1:25:08Mar 24, 2026
The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy
The Michael Shermer Show
1:08:49Mar 17, 2026
DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits
The Michael Shermer Show
1:28:56Mar 14, 2026
Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right
The Michael Shermer Show
1:02:36Mar 12, 2026
Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"
The Michael Shermer Show
52:36Mar 8, 2026
Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way
The Michael Shermer Show
1:37:56Mar 6, 2026
Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing
The Michael Shermer Show
1:31:24Feb 26, 2026
Filming Corey Feldman & "Corey's Angels": The Weird World Behind the Curtain
The Michael Shermer Show
1:32:36Feb 21, 2026