The Michael Shermer Show
A podcast by Michael Shermer - Tuesdays
511 Episodes
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225. Nancy Segal — Deliberately Divided: Inside the Controversial Study of Twins and Triplets Adopted Apart
Published: 11/9/2021 -
224. Bobby Duffy on The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think
Published: 11/6/2021 -
223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
Published: 11/2/2021 -
222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
Published: 10/30/2021 -
221. Antonio Damasio — Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Published: 10/26/2021 -
220. Charles Foster on Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
Published: 10/23/2021 -
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 -
218. Craig Whitlock — The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Published: 10/16/2021 -
217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory
Published: 10/12/2021 -
216. Kathryn Paige Harden — The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Published: 10/9/2021 -
215. Mary Eberstadt on God, Religion, Secularization, Sexual Revolution, and Identity Politics
Published: 10/5/2021 -
214. Tom Nichols — Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy
Published: 10/2/2021 -
213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Published: 9/28/2021 -
212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
Published: 9/25/2021 -
211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Published: 9/21/2021 -
210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Published: 9/18/2021 -
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 -
208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism
Published: 9/10/2021 -
207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Published: 9/7/2021 -
206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Published: 9/4/2021
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.