What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline
The Michael Shermer Show
58:09Apr 14, 2026
The Michael Shermer Show
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How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity
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1:31:22Apr 11, 2026
What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive
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Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle
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Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z
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The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion
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Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman
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1:12:20Mar 28, 2026
Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West
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1:25:08Mar 24, 2026
The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy
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1:08:49Mar 17, 2026
DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits
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Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right
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1:02:36Mar 12, 2026
Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"
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52:36Mar 8, 2026
Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way
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1:37:56Mar 6, 2026
Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing
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1:31:24Feb 26, 2026
Filming Corey Feldman & "Corey's Angels": The Weird World Behind the Curtain
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1:32:36Feb 21, 2026
Can a Skeptic Believe in God?
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1:16:37Feb 15, 2026
Shermer Says 6: Jeffrey Epstein and Me
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15:12Feb 7, 2026
The Evolutionary Roots of Love, Sex, and Jealousy
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1:33:01Feb 3, 2026
Truth Still Matters (And Here's Why)
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55:42Jan 27, 2026
Shermer Says 5: What Went Wrong in Minnesota? Protests, Panic, and Personal Responsibility
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28:07Jan 26, 2026
Government Transparency & UFOs: Inside Military Programs and Classified Briefings
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1:10:40Jan 21, 2026
The Hardest UFO Cases to Dismiss: Something Is Flying Around and We Don't Know What It Is
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1:24:11Jan 18, 2026
Why Survival Isn't Enough: The Deep Human Need to Matter
The Michael Shermer Show
1:21:50Jan 14, 2026
Shermer Says 4: Venezuela, ICE in Minnesota, UFOs & UAPs, and Social Norms Around Single-Sex Spaces
The Michael Shermer Show
52:29Jan 12, 2026
Mental Health: More Diagnoses, Fewer Answers?
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1:29:34Jan 10, 2026
What Makes You "You" When Everything Is Just Atoms?
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1:50:20Jan 6, 2026
Rethinking the Discovery of DNA
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1:21:54Jan 3, 2026
How One Black Man Dismantled the KKK, One Conversation at a Time
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1:05:15Dec 30, 2025
The Collapse of Open Inquiry: Sacred Victims and Forbidden Questions
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1:30:00Dec 28, 2025
The Future of Brain Implants: Restoring Speech, Regaining Mobility, Treating Pain
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1:00:21Dec 23, 2025
The Original Alien Craze: When People Believed in Martians
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1:26:06Dec 20, 2025
How AI Sees Science Differently Than We Do
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2:07:33Dec 16, 2025
Can You Spot a Killer? The Dangerous Fantasy of Criminal Profiling
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1:14:10Dec 13, 2025
Why Wars Last Longer Than Experts Predict
The Michael Shermer Show
1:01:39Dec 8, 2025
The Emergent Mind: From Ant Colonies to Human Thought to Artificial Intelligence
The Michael Shermer Show
1:44:30Dec 6, 2025
Are We Meant to Leave Earth? Why Humanity May Have No Choice but to Go to Space
The Michael Shermer Show
1:33:34Dec 2, 2025
Cosmology, Creation, and the Evidence for God
The Michael Shermer Show
1:16:23Nov 29, 2025
Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)
The Michael Shermer Show
1:20:41Nov 22, 2025
Logic, Creativity, and the Limits of AI: How Humans Think in Ways Machines Never Will
The Michael Shermer Show
1:49:41Nov 18, 2025
The Psychology of War: Could YOU Make a Moral Choice in Wartime?
The Michael Shermer Show
1:26:34Nov 16, 2025
Tribes, Teams, and Cults: How Groups Shape What We Believe
The Michael Shermer Show
1:35:52Nov 11, 2025
Shermer Says 3: Weird Experiences, the Meaning of Dreams, and What Mark Twain Knew About Reality
The Michael Shermer Show
31:50Nov 8, 2025
A Former Spy Explains How AI is Changing Espionage
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1:07:41Nov 4, 2025
Did Lost Civilizations Really Exist? An Archaeologist Explains
The Michael Shermer Show
1:39:19Nov 2, 2025
Charles Murray: Why I'm Taking Religion Seriously
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1:43:55Oct 25, 2025
The Myth of Human Exceptionalism: Why Humans Aren't as Special as We Think
The Michael Shermer Show
1:03:27Oct 21, 2025
Shermer Says: Why Secularists Are Turning to Religion, The Substitution Hypothesis, Sleep Paralysis
The Michael Shermer Show
42:54Oct 18, 2025
The Serial Killer Era of the 70s/80s: Lore, Patterns, and Plausible Explanations
The Michael Shermer Show
1:35:46Oct 15, 2025
Shermer Says: Debate Skills, 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Autism, Vaccines, ANTIFA, Bari Weiss & CBS News
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29:28Oct 13, 2025
When Rationality Becomes Irrational
The Michael Shermer Show
1:27:46Oct 11, 2025