511 Episodes

  1. 225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart

    Published: 11/9/2021
  2. 224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think

    Published: 11/6/2021
  3. 223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life

    Published: 11/2/2021
  4. 222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses

    Published: 10/30/2021
  5. 221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious

    Published: 10/26/2021
  6. 220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

    Published: 10/23/2021
  7. 219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer’s Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer’s Home

    Published: 10/19/2021
  8. 218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

    Published: 10/16/2021
  9. 217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory

    Published: 10/12/2021
  10. 216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

    Published: 10/9/2021
  11. 215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics

    Published: 10/5/2021
  12. 214. Tom Nichols — Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy

    Published: 10/2/2021
  13. 213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

    Published: 9/28/2021
  14. 212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It

    Published: 9/25/2021
  15. 211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

    Published: 9/21/2021
  16. 210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

    Published: 9/18/2021
  17. 209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century

    Published: 9/14/2021
  18. 208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism

    Published: 9/10/2021
  19. 207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

    Published: 9/7/2021
  20. 206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

    Published: 9/4/2021

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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.